Environ specializes in toxicological analysis with the aim of reducing health risks and environmental contamination and ensuring compliance with regulatory goals.
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He has advised on the tax consequences of marquis antitrust, civil rights and wrongful conviction cases, SEC restitution, and environmental contamination litigation.
The organization, Sulabh International Social Service Organisation, drew up a plan that eliminated health and environmental contamination and provided retraining for scavengers.
Recently, Chevron and Stratus knocked heads over a Portland, Oregon environmental contamination site that Chevron and other oil-related companies have been sued over.
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Occidental Petroleum, for example, is involved in a major human rights and environmental contamination lawsuit regarding the pollution of indigenous land and the Amazon River.
The contention is that Chevron was responsible for environmental contamination actually caused by another oil company, Texaco, which operated in the area between 1964 and 1990.
These geomicrobiological changes can capture or release toxic metals and radionuclides attached to minerals making these interactions vital to our understanding of environmental contamination and also to exploit potential bioremediation techniques to treat contaminants.
The results of the proposed project should contribute to improve capacity building in environmental monitoring, to assess the extent of contamination in specific regions, to raise environmental awareness among local population and to improve or amend environmental legislation in African countries.
Key challenges facing society over the next decades include management of our environmental legacy, particularly toxic metal contamination and safe disposal of the significant global radioactive legacy.
Environmental baselines to enable an assessment of the degree of contamination of soils and agricultural crops by heavy metals have not been established in the majority of African countries.
But critics of shale gas point to environmental concerns such as high water use and possible water contamination, the release of methane and, to a lesser extent, earth tremors caused by drilling.
In Africa, because of economic pressures and slower evolution of environmental awareness, local communities have been particularly exposed to the detrimental effects of mining contamination on public health, agriculture and the environment.
This view is echoed by Robert Jackson, professor of environmental sciences at Duke University in the US, who has published research on ground water contamination through hydraulic fracturing.
Environmental and health studies have been conducted for years showing no linkage between fracking and drinking water contamination.
President Obama and the White House Council on Environmental Quality are committed to clean water, and want to reduce contaminants in drinking water, including contamination from improperly disposed medications.
It has come under heavy criticism from those with environmental concerns, some of them focused on various chemicals used in the fracking process and the possible contamination of groundwater.
Soil contamination has long been an issue in China, were rapid industrialization and lax enforcement of environmental-protection laws have resulted in the pollution of large swathes of arable land with a variety of heavy metals.
LIMA, Peru (AP) Peru's government declared an environmental state of emergency on Monday in a remote Amazon jungle region it says has been affected by years of contamination at the country's most productive oil fields, which are currently operated by Argentina-based Pluspetrol.
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