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Will EPA Meet Its 2020 Goals for the RCRA Corrective Action Program?
EPA recently reported in its annual performance report for 2010 that remedy construction has been completed at 37 percent of the 3,746 facilities on the RCRA Corrective Action 2020 baseline. To meet the goal of the 2020 Initiative, EPA and authorized states need to have achieved remedy construction status at 95 percent of the baseline facilities by the year 2020. With only nine years to go, what are the chances of meeting this ambitious goal?
Vapor Pin™ Public Product Launch Planned for May 2011
Cox-Colvin continues to refine and test the design of our Vapor Pin™, an innovative sub-slab soil-gas sampling device that improves the quality of soil gas samples by reducing the
 potential for leaks. Because it’s easy to install and reusable, the Vapor Pin™ allows for collection of more samples (providing a better understanding of site conditions) for less cost than conventional sampling methods. Public product launch is scheduled for early May 2011. Additional details regarding purchase of the Vapor Pin™ will be provided in April’s Focus on the Environment newsletter. EPA Re-Evaluates Fluoride Exposure Risk
Debate about the use of fluoride in drinking water historically has pitted those who strongly believe in the benefits of fluoride to dental hygiene against those who believe there is no safe exposure level for Stricter Asbestos Reporting Requirements
In the past, many asbestos assessments were reported in a highly casual way. Effective January 1, 2011, however, asbestos reporting requirements became more stringent.
Online Waste-Related Resources
Are any of you old enough to remember calling the RCRA Hotline with waste-related questions and talking to a real person, sometimes for hours at a time? Although a similar phone operated service still exists as the Superfund, TRI, EPCRA, RMP, and Oil Information Hotline (1-800-424-9346), it no longer handles waste-related questions. At the federal level, there are several web-based services worth visiting including RCRA Online and the recently started Wastes - Frequent Questions. RCRA Online is your best bet for
 finding published resources, while the newer “Wastes - Frequent Questions” site includes frequently asked questions and allows you to e-mail questions to technical staff. If you miss talking to a real person, you stand a better chance working through your state agency. |
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fluoride. Recent EPA risk analyses of fluoride in groundwater will likely result in lower drinking water standards for fluoride. The major impacts of these efforts likely will be to drinking water fluoridation and the use of fluoride-based insecticides in agriculture. However, industries with environmental issues that include fluoride also will feel the backlash, resulting in greater investigation and remediation costs.