by Jeff Bolin, CHMM | Jan 20, 2019 | Blog
In the fall of 2018, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) added two new sites to the National Priorities List (NPL) for a reason that never factored into NPL listing in any time in history. The sites became Superfund sites based solely on...
by Alan Hahn | Jan 7, 2019 | Blog
Politics and environmental issues have always been joined at the hip. After all, environmental laws, regulations, enforcement, etc. are a matter of federal and state policy. Under the current administration in Washington, D.C., this political-environmental connection...
by Alan Hahn | Dec 19, 2018 | Blog
We have devoted a lot of our regulatory updates to the issue of which waters are regulated (by the federal government) and which are not. This is a critical issue that has been unresolved for a number of years. However, with some recent regulatory developments, we...
by Jeff Bolin, CHMM | Dec 4, 2018 | Blog
Pick your phrase; “significant nexus,” “hydrologic connection,” or, more recently, “groundwater conduit.” Regardless of the term, the question of whether groundwater that is “connected” to surface water (or more specifically, a “navigable” water or waters of the...
by Dragun Corporation Staff | Nov 13, 2018 | Blog
In a formal survey by the American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA), about 1/3 of the Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) professionals who responded said they don’t have enough staff or resources to complete their job tasks. In the same survey, the AIHA...
by Alan Hahn | Oct 26, 2018 | Blog
Above all other environmental issues in the United States, clean water is most important to Americans. Although waters in the U.S. are “dramatically” cleaner than they used to be, these gains have come at tremendous financial burden and, still, there’s much to do....
