DOE environmental management program awards first basic research grants
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The DOE's Environmental Management Science Program has announced the inclusion of the different research disciplines in its drive to clean up the department's sites. Some $47 million have been awarded to a total of 138 basic research grants in 1996 and some $65 million will be allotted in the next two years. Majority of the funds would be used to finance projects at 11 DOE national laboratories, which would conduct R&D on bioremediation approaches and techniques to monitor chemical processes used in the treatment of hazardous wastes. The DOE program is projected to continue until year 2070.
Publication Name: Environmental Science & Technology
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0013-936X
Year: 1996
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Pilot program will update IRIS health risk database for 11 chemicals
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EPA launches the Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) Pilot Program to improve the quality of its human health risk assessment database. The pilot program consists of new health risk assessments for 11 chemicals that are most likely to have serious impacts to the environment. The new toxicity values will be included in the database and will be used for developing new policy guidelines such as standards for drinking water or cleanup levels for Superfund sites. The pilot program is expected to be completed by spring 1997.
Publication Name: Environmental Science & Technology
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0013-936X
Year: 1996
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Chiral compounds show promise as environmental tracers
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New studies have documented the potential of chiral compounds as environmental tracers and as instruments for understanding chemical toxicity. An international collection of studies on soils, surface waters and wildlife confirming the promise of chiral compounds was presented at the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry in Vancouver, Canada in Nov. 1995. A growing number of environmental chiral compounds are identified as an offshoot of the development of better analytical methods.
Publication Name: Environmental Science & Technology
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0013-936X
Year: 1996
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