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The U.S. EPA&rsquo;s Homeland Security Research Program (HSRP) is charged with protecting human health and the environment from accidental and intentional releases of toxic chemicals and other threat agents. Such chemical agents include Fourth Generation Agents (FGAs), which repr...

The presentation provides the updated information on the progress of Fukushima environmental remediation from the 2011 nuclear power plant accident.

Systems engineering can encapsulate many areas of design and production.&nbsp; A prudent course is to consider the environmental effects in design, construction, operation, product manufacturing and use, and end of life.&nbsp; To consider these effects requires information about ...

This report highlights the importance of effective data management in disaster response, specifically focusing on environmental sampling. In today's data-driven world, data management is crucial for decision-making, coordination, and systems thinking in disaster scenarios. Effici...

This report summarizes the results of infrastructure decontamination experiments performed at the WSTB.&nbsp; These experiments focused on simulating contamination of drinking water distribution pipes with a commonly available insecticide formulation containing malathion.&nbsp; M...

Waste is produced at all stages of the response and recovery (including decontamination) following a biological contamination incident. Types of materials that generate a significant proportion of the waste at every stage of the response include personal protective equipment (PPE...

Wildfire risks and losses have increased over the last 100 years, associated with population expansion, land use and management practices, and global climate change. While there have been extensive efforts at modeling the probability and severity of wildfires, there have been few...

The Analysis for Coastal Operational Resiliency (AnCOR) program is an interagency collaboration between the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and the United States Coast Guard (USCG). The overall purpose of this multiagency pro...

Dispersion models, which are important tools for efficient routine releases and emergency response preparation scenarios, typically incorporate logarithmic wind speed profiles when simulating flow and downwind dispersion. This may be acceptable for regions with low surface roughn...

This subproduct contains text and pictures for an update/extension of the EPA Emergency Response Research's Analysis for Coastal Operational Resiliency (AnCOR) webpage (https://www.epa.gov/emergency-response-research/analysis-coastal-operational-resiliency). It describes the wide...

Climate change is a result of human behavior and has differentiated effects on communities and peoples around the United States and the globe. It is inextricably tied to a history of human development and decision-making—from individuals to organizations to entire societies. For ...

An overview of the consumption-based emission inventory being performed for Maine and other northeast states, with some preliminary results for Maine.&nbsp; Many U.S. states are seeking quantitative information to inform the development of policies and plans to manage their green...

Plastic flows through the economy have increased from approximately 2 Mt/year in the 1950&rsquo;s to 368 Mt in 2019, with prospects for quadrupling further by 2050.&nbsp; A large amount of these plastics is made into packaging, so an emphasis on the sustainability of plastic pack...

Elevated temperature landfills (ETLFs) are municipal solid waste (MSW) landfills that have been impacted by subsurface exothermic reactions (SERs) and display unusual gas and leachate composition. Leachate quantity and quality data were analyzed to identify indicators of a SER. A...

Chemical concentration versus time (CvT) data is commonly used to characterize the toxicokinetic (TK) properties of chemical substances. However, obtaining in vivo CvT data requires scientific labor and use of animal subjects. To reduce or eliminate new animal testing, it remains...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency&rsquo;s Storm Water Management Model (SWMM) was used to evaluate the potential concentrations and migration pathways of spores spread by urban stormwater following a hypothetical biological agent terrorist attack or accidental pathogen rel...

In this project, the physical and chemical properties of leachate from six landfills from different ecozones in Puerto Rico were analyzed during seven sampling events. Samples were obtained from leachate collection systems when available and from leachate storage ponds, seepage a...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) strives to protect human health and the environment from adverse impacts resulting from incidents involving biological outbreaks or the intentional release of threat agents. Over the last 15 years several interagency efforts have bee...

The rapid proliferation of solar energy adoption presents a substantial environmental challenge concerning end-of-life solar panels. A primary issue involves the presence of hazardous materials like cadmium and lead in these panels [2]. Proper handling and disposal of these toxic...

This work investigated the suitability of three non-hazardous food dyes as PFAS simulants during wastewater treatment with powdered activated carbon (PAC). Data from batch experiments with PAC revealed equilibrium constants (Log Kd) and pseudo first-order adsorption rate constant...

Nitrogen (N) has historically been the nutrient that most often limits plant growth in the United States. However, human activity since the Industrial Revolution has resulted in increased emission and hence deposition of N.1 Initial increases in N deposition can act as a fertiliz...

Enhanced Aquifer Recharge (EAR) is the process of enhancing the natural conveyance of water into the subsurface to augment water supplies. Karst geology offers a natural mechanism for recharge and covers 20% of the U.S. land surface. The potential impacts to groundwater flow foll...

As chemists and engineers look to be more sustainable in their use, reuse, and recycling of materials, plastics are playing an ever-increasing role in the U.S. economy.&nbsp; U.S. inflation-adjusted manufacturing shrunk for the last 10 years (0.5% per year), while manufacturing o...

Presentation that outlines the process for developing a research plan for a BILS funded research project that is designed to develop validatable methods for detection and quanitation of emerging and historically important pathogens in raw and treated wastewater.

Staff and scientists from the Integrated Climate Sciences Division (ICSD) will be presenting to the Northwest Interagency Partnership for Sustainable Communities (NIPSC), which is a federal interagency collaboration in Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington, co-led by Dani Shannon...