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MILFORD, Conn., Sept. 29, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Environmental Data Resources Inc., (EDR), the leader in property-specific environmental information and risk management solutions, has launched a new product to provide environmental consultants with a comprehensive, cost-effective screening tool in one convenient package that has the essential elements to meet complex environmental standards. Named the EDR Essentials Package and launched on August 8, the product provides users with the very...

Conference Today Showcases Smaller Brownfield Sites in Need of Redevelopment HARRISBURG, Pa., Sept. 27, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Department of Environmental Protection Secretary Mike Krancer spoke today to Pennsylvania Brownfields Conference attendees about the agency's recent reorganization, highlighting his and Gov. Corbett's priority to redevelop brownfield sites across Pennsylvania. The conference, a partnership between the commonwealth and the Engineers' Society of Western...

DALLAS, September 26, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The report "Crop Protection Chemicals Market by Type (Herbicides, Fungicides, Insecticides, Bio-pesticides and Adjuvants), Geography, Price Trends and Global Forecasts (2011-2016) [http://www.marketsandmarkets.com/Market-Reports/crop-protection-380.html ]", as the name suggests,defines and segments the global crop protection chemicals market with analysis and forecasting of the global revenue for pesticides (synthetic as well as...

Several new studies of air and water near the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill conclude that cleanup workers may have escaped harm from one of the most worrisome groups of potentially toxic substances in the oil, according to an article in Chemical & Engineering News (CEN), ACS's weekly news magazine. But it cites concerns that another group of potentially harmful chemicals did escape from the water and could create a health hazard for cleanup workers. The article, by C&EN...

The increasingly prevalent notion that expensive organic fruits and vegetables are safer because pesticides — used to protect traditional crops from insects, thus ensuring high crop yields and making them less expensive — are a risk for causing cancer has no good scientific support, an authority on the disease said here today. Such unfounded fears could have the unanticipated consequence of keeping healthful fruits and vegetables from those with low incomes. Bruce N. Ames, Ph.D.,...

FAIRMONT, W.Va., Aug. 22, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Mon Power, a FirstEnergy Corp. (NYSE: FE) subsidiary, will use the aerial application of herbicides to help maintain the rights-of-way under some of its West Virginia power lines. The maintenance program is designed to enhance the safety and reliability of its electric service by controlling vegetation that has the potential to interfere with power lines. The company will be applying the herbicides in Clay, Braxton, Nicholas and Webster...

NEWARK, N.J., Aug. 4, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Sustainable Remediation Forum (SURF) has issued three key guidance documents that set the stage for the future of environmental cleanup. The documents comprise a comprehensive road map for sustainable remediation - a movement to encourage cleanup projects that remove potentially dangerous contaminants from the environment while limiting external impacts and minimizing the use of energy, water, and other natural resources. SURF's goal...

Parker Waichman Alonso LLP Files Two Class Action Lawsuits on Behalf of Iowa Property Owners Alleging DuPont's Imprelisâ„¢ Herbicide Killed and Damaged Trees on Their Property New York, New York (PRWEB) August 01, 2011 Parker Waichman Alonso LLP, a national law firm representing victims of defective products and toxic substances, together with its partner law firms, has filed two class action lawsuits on behalf of Iowa residents alleging DuPont's Imprelisâ„¢ herbicide killed...

Even in trace quantities, the radioactive gas radon is very dangerous; it is second only to cigarette smoking as a cause of lung cancer deaths in the United States. The expense and precautions necessary to study it safely have limited research into its properties.  Now, University of Pennsylvania chemists have for the first time measured how well radon binds to a molecule, paving the way for future research on it and other noble gasses.    The research was led by associate...

SACRAMENTO, Calif., July 29, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Attorneys from the Houston and Sacramento offices of Hicks Thomas LLP won an important ruling this week at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit after the court issued its opinion giving a narrow construction to "arranger" liability under the federal Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA). In Team Enterprises, LLC v. Western Investment Real Estate Trust (No. 10-16916), a Modesto, Calif.-based...