Green Remediation vs. Dig & Haul: Let's Discuss
By Jessica Brandt
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No state cleanup law explicitly mandates that energy efficiency, water usage, air
emissions, or the creation of waste be taken into consideration when selecting
a remedy. Considering that the goal of these cleanup laws was to create a
liability scheme and to clean up hazardous waste sites, it’s not surprising that other environmental considerations were not taken into
account when they were written.
Recently, those in the private and public sectors have started to rethink this
compartmentalized approach to cleanups. Many entities have put out white papers
and possible metrics on greener cleanups. The latest effort is lead by ASTM in
partnership with EPA, with a goal to develop a greener cleanup guide that would
take a wider range of environmental factors into account when selecting the
cleanup remedy while still protecting human health.
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  28 percent approximate amount of all energy used in the Unites States for transporting people and goods from one place to another.
Source U.S. Department of Energy
 200-300 estimated number of hydrogen-fueled vehicles in the United States today
Source U.S. Department of Energy
 9,783,000 number of barrels of crude oil the United States imports each day.
Source U.S. Department of Energy
 1 million number of gallons of fresh water that can be contaminated from the used oil from one oil change.
Source U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
 20 million number of people that celebrated the first Earth Day on Aril 22, 1970.
Source U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
 $2.3 billion amount President Obama awarded for clean energy manufacturing projects across the United States
Source U.S. Department of Energy
 509 approximate number of operational landfill gas (LFG) energy projects currently in the United States. LFG electricity generation projects provide the energy equivalent of powering more than 920,000 homes annually
Source U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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