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Landfills manage materials containing per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) from municipal solid waste (MSW) and other waste streams. This manuscript critically reviews state and federal initiatives and peer-reviewed literature to define best practices for managing these was...

Following an intentional or unintentional release of an environmentally persistent pathogen, remediation of contaminated areas might be required to protect human health and the environment. Remediation can include efforts to determine the extent and location of contamination (sit...

This brief presentation is designed to help begin a conversation with Tribal Science Council members on a potential collaboration/co-production of research opportunity. For several years, EPA researchers have been developing tools and approaches to describe the benefits from natu...

The ability to implement full-scale disaster response exercises with minimal resources and maximum control and realism is of great interest to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the emergency response community. Virtual Reality (VR) holds great promise for providi...

The personnel decontamination (decon) line is an essential part of emergency response efforts following a biological agent release for ensuring containment and minimizing exposure risk to potentially biohazardous materials on responder personal protective equipment (PPE). EPA has...

The presentaion will describe the current state of the art for co-digestion of prepared food wastes with municipal sewage sludge.  The mixture enhances the production of methane.  That methane can then be sold as natural gas or used to create  heat or electrical en...

In the event of an accidental or intentional release of a chemical warfare agent (CWA), environmental samples must be collected, preserved, and analyzed to assess the size of the contaminated area and, following decontamination efforts, to determine whether cleanup goals have bee...

EPA is a support agency under the National Response Framework's ESF#11.  This presentation will describe what the EPA's role is in animal health emergencies and give an update on the carcass grinding research effort being done with USDA. There are three key takeaways: 1) Was...

A mutual effort between US Dept of Energy, EPA, and Israel's Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has continued to address what is needed to recover from a radiological dispersal device (RDD) attack.  Beginning in July 2022, three subgroups (technology, public health and communications) c...

The continued development of real time stormwater monitoring has allowed for faster response as well as better containment and mitigation efforts concerning potential contamination events. The purpose of this experiment is to develop a system of deployable sensor stations that wi...

The potential for polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH)-related effects in benthic organisms is commonly estimated from organic carbon-normalized sediment concentrations based on equilibrium partitioning (EqP). Although this approach is useful for screening purposes, it may overe...

Building on UST Finder V1, the first national map of current and historic USTs, UST facilities, and UST releases in the US, V2 will be  developed in collaboration with state, territorial and tribal partners to catalog both the dynamic spatial and attribute information of thi...

Extensive research in recent years has reported higher per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance (PFAS) concentrations in municipal solid waste (MSW) landfill leachate than other municipal wastewaters, including multiple studies of leachate from MSW landfills in the United States. Becau...

This Subproduct will be preparing quarterly Fact Sheets, Summaries, Presentations, International updates. These quarterly meetings will be held with representatives of OITA, ORCR, and regional offices to provide updates on new development in Plastics research in terms of manageme...

Field-level exercises with the purpose to assess remediation following the deliberate release of a highly toxic chemical in an indoor environment can be conducted using low(er) toxicity simulants if they are closely linked to the behavior of the toxic chemical itself. Experimenta...

Aims: This study aimed to provide operationally relevant SARS-CoV-2 surface disinfection efficacy information. Methods and Results: Disinfectants were evaluated against SARS-CoV-2 on material coupons and were tested using Spray (no-touch with contact time) and Spray & Wipe (wipe...

Landfill gas (LFG) extraction wellhead data were compared to understand the range of observations due to unique conditions at five elevated temperature landfills (ETLFs) in the US. Correlations of CH4 and CO2 show distinct compositional indicators for 1. typical operation, 2. sub...

Burn pits are a method of open-air waste management that was common during military operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other regions in Southwest Asia. Veterans returning from deployment have reported respiratory symptoms, potentially from exposure to burn pit smoke, yet compre...

This presentation describes the development of a decision support tool, the Priority Response Environmental Screening Tool (PRESTO), that was designed to provide a framework for analyzing geospatial information. The objective of a PRESTO analysis is to assist the U.S. Environment...

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are a group of man-made chemicals that have been in use since the 1940s in a wide array of consumer products. PFAS are persistent in the environment and bioaccumulate. Thermal treatment methods are currently applied to a variety of mater...

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are a group of man-made chemicals that have been in use since the 1940s in a wide array of consumer products. PFAS are persistent in the environment and bioaccumulate. Thermal treatment methods are currently applied to a variety of mater...

This presentation is Part 2 consumption-based GHG emissions inventory for the state of Maine. This presentation is focused on results of the study, interpretation, and identifying opportunities for further exploration.

Extreme weather events make it critical for communities to plan for effectively managing large quantities of disaster waste and debris while maintaining their ability to receive everyday municipal waste. Recent disasters – floods, hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis, fires, v...

Causal structural models are used to capture knowledge of a problem domain through framing potential events as random variables and connections as causal arcs. Moreover, the properties of causal structural models foster additional insights on causal and inferential interactions a...

Argonne is building an intelligent computer application, the Radiological Recovery Logistics Tool (RRLT), to assist the understanding and allocation of resources for a mitigation and recovery effort. RRLT output will be a list of recommended methods and tools to accomplish the sp...