Peer reviewed: hard times for innovative cleanup technology

What can be done to remove market barriers to new groundwater and soil remediation technologies?     

Peer reviewed: managing the global environment

To enable future generations to drastically-and affordably-reduce carbon emissions if required, we must deal now with science and technology uncertainties.     

Peer reviewed: monitoring endocrine-disrupting chemicals

Novel strategies are providing a more comprehensive and refined basis for understanding the occurrence and effects of endocrine disrupters.     

Peer reviewed: the evolution of industrial ecology

No longer focusing solely on technology, industrial ecology is beginning to address sustainability through metadisciplinary partnerships.     

Peer reviewed: the challenge of remediating chromium-contaminated soil

The complex chemistry of chromium compounds presents unique measurement and regulatory challenges.     

Peer reviewed: creating multidisciplinary research opportunities

A unifying framework model helps researchers to address the complexities of environmental problems.     

Peer reviewed: promoting green chemistry initiatives

Supported by a rapidly growing infrastructure, the field promises innovative solutions to pressing environmental problems.     

Peer reviewed: environmental sleuth at work

A combination of technical approaches and forensic tools can determine historic causes, timing, and impacts of site contamination.     

Peer reviewed: making watershed management work

New York City's watershed management strategy is unprecedented in its scope, scale, and cost.     

Peer reviewed: the lead fingerprints of gasoline contamination

Isotopic analysis of the lead additives in gasoline can improve estimates of the ages of leaks and spills.     

Peer reviewed: genetic engineering: the frontier of bioremediation

New molecular tools and an improved understanding of biodegradative processes are slowly increasing prospects for successful technology deployment.     

Peer reviewed: update on environmental biosensors

Scientific understanding and technological development are advancing, but commercialization, with a few exceptions, has been slow.     

Peer reviewed: the changing landscape of the chlorine debate

Growing health concerns and emerging market forces have reshaped the terms of the chlorine debate.     

Peer reviewed: remote emissions testing hits the road

On-road detectors have arrived, but are they more effective than stationary tests?     

Peer reviewed: cleaning up the nuclear weapons complex

Progress on groundwater and soil restoration is limited, and new technologies are needed.     

Peer reviewed: in situ bioremediation: defining the limits

New approaches to engineered and intrinsic bioremediation are being developed and field tested.     

Peer reviewed: facing the challenges of a service economy

The environmental impacts of the large-and growing-service-based sector of the U.S. economy are poorly characterized.     

Peer reviewed: managing the health impacts of waste incineration

The current framework used to assess incinerator health effects considers local populations, but often excludes workers and regional populations.     

Peer reviewed: tracking the distribution of persistent organic pollutants

Control strategies for these contaminants will require a better understanding of how they move around the globe.