The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed listing three species under the Endangered Species Act, impacting public and private project proponents across all nine Bay Area counties. Introduction Three species in the San Francisco Bay Area are proposed for...
The management of emerging contaminants is a complex challenge given the evolving regulatory goals, uncertain source characterization, and lack of remedial research within the stormwater industry. Currently, the two most prominent emerging contaminants in this sector...
On Friday, the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) announced proposed changes to certain methods used to assess natural resource damages for hazardous substance releases under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA)...
Poster presented at Battelle Sediments Conference, Jan 9-12, 2023, Austin, Texas Background/Objectives The Matilija Dam in the Los Padres National Forest, California, is an arch dam built in 1947 for water storage and flood control. However, it has had the deleterious...
Abstract Determining the amount of restoration needed to compensate the public for injury to natural resources is central to estimating natural resource damages (NRDs). Formal restoration scaling methods have not considered environmental justice to date. The...
Abstract Determining the scale of restoration needed to compensate the public for injuries to natural resources is central to estimating natural resource damages for unpermitted releases of contamination. This paper discusses the inclusion of environmental justice in...
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed listing three species under the Endangered Species Act, impacting public and private project proponents across all nine Bay Area counties. Introduction Three species in the San Francisco Bay Area are proposed for...
