Hard times for innovative cleanup technology
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Most investments in remediation technologies have failed despite a robust economy and a highly profitable cleanup technology market estimated at $9 bil per year. Many start-up companies close shop because of a weak US market for innovative groundwater and soil cleanup technologies and their inability to develop new technologies that would treat contaminants such as polychlorinated biphenyls and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. The National Research Council has suggested that the government provide financial incentives to companies and proposes the establishment of a program that will review the performance of new technologies.
Publication Name: Environmental Science & Technology
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0013-936X
Year: 1997
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European marine protection agreement aims for zero discharges
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Fifteen European environmental ministers ratified the marine protection agreement which called for the cancellation of structural and nuclear dumping activities by the year 2020. The agreement seeks to ban the dumping activities of the nuclear reprocessing and oil exploration industry in the North Sea, requiring oil exploration firms to desist from disposing steel parts from offshore oil rigs. Members of the UK oil industry called the agreeement politically motivated since the agreement failed to take into account the $20 bil cost to remove all structures in the North Sea.
Publication Name: Environmental Science & Technology
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0013-936X
Year: 1998
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