Joy Stephens, BS, MAT, MSc, and Jordan Leech, P.G., MSCE, discuss how landfill aerial surveying uses drone technologies like photogrammetry and LiDAR to collect topographic data, each suited to different … Continue reading Landfill Aerial Surveying: Choosing the Right Tool for the Job
This article provides a detailed review of safety concerns and considerations for various refrigerants, emphasizing that leak detection and safe handling are crucial regardless of refrigerant type. It discusses incidents … Continue reading “Safer” Refrigerants Revisited
The MSW decision support tool refers to the Municipal Solid Waste Decision Support Tool (MSW DST), a software model co-developed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and RTI International. … Continue reading Decision Support Tool Process Module for Municipal Solid Waste Processing for Developing Countries ...
Published in Talking Trash, Fauve Herron, EI, of SCS Engineers, discusses how groundwater sampling data is more than a regulatory requirement; it is one of the most powerful tools for … Continue reading Why You Should Care about the Groundwater Sampling at Your Landfill
Published by Retail & Restaurant Facility Business Magazine, Author Keith Etchells discusses how environmental contamination can go from being a deal breaker to an opportunity. For property owners and investors, … Continue reading Environmental Contamination – From Liability to Opportunity
SCS’s deep well injection and carbon sequestration team is focused on tailoring environmental solutions unique to your business plan. As employee-owners, we uphold a powerful culture of demonstrating integrity, transparency, … Continue reading Deep Well Injection and Carbon Sequestration Team, Case Studies, Solutions
SCS RMC Drone and GIS Services provide technology to increase safety. Using a UAS for SEM can have benefits such as: Increasing landfill owners’ and operators’ accessibility to real-time data that … Continue reading SCS RMC Drone and GIS Services
The paper presents a study on the evaporation of water from high plasticity clayey soil and its impact on desiccation cracking behavior, particularly under high temperature conditions. The compaction water … Continue reading Laboratory Experiments of Water Evaporation from High Plasticity Clayey Soil to Investigate Cracking ...
As a Professional Geologist, Jake Dyson is responsible for the permitting, drilling, regulatory compliance, and operation of Class I, II, V, and VI UIC wells. Dyson manages permitting, testing, and … Continue reading Class I UIC Wells: Feasibility Phase Estimation of Injection Rate
The primary objective of this study was to probabilistically assess the spatial distribution of soil suction using the Electrical Resistivity Tomography (ERT) technique. Under field conditions, it is almost impossible … Continue reading Soil Suction Dynamics in Vegetated Soil: From Deterministic to Probabilistic Analysis with Electrical ...
Over the last several years, the regulatory pendulum has swung so far back and forth that facilities that are covered by the Environmental Protection Agency’s Chemical Accident Prevention Provisions, otherwise … Continue reading Getting Knocked Out by the Pendulum the 2024 EPA RMP Rule Changes and ...
In our first Carbon Credit Series, we learned that there are two types of carbon markets: regulatory and voluntary. We covered the basics of the voluntary carbon market and shared … Continue reading SCS Engineers Carbon Credit Series: Cap and Trade Market
On December 18, 2025, the Air Quality Control Commission (AQCC) approved Regulation 31, developed by the Air Pollution Control District (APCD) within the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment … Continue reading SCS Technical Bulletin: Colorado AQCC Regulation 31 – Control of Methane Emissions From ...
Taken from the EPA Press Release: EPA Announces Next Steps on Regulatory PFOA and PFOS Cleanup Efforts, Provides Update on Liability and Passive Receiver Issues On September 17, 2025, the … Continue reading EPA Announces Next Steps on Regulatory PFOA and PFOS
40 CFR Part 98 RIN 2060-AW76 On September 12, 2025, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed permanently removing program obligations for 46 of 47 Greenhouse Gas Reporting … Continue reading Technical Bulletin: Reconsideration of the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program
SCS Engineers provides this Technical Bulletin to summarize the Proposed Rule for Effluent Limitations Guidelines and Standards for the Meat and Poultry Products Point Source Category. SCS will provide additional … Continue reading Technical Bulletin: Proposed Rule for Effluent Limitations Guidelines and Standards for the Meat ...
The U.S. EPA is reviewing the Milwaukee nonattainment designation and may change the status from “moderate” to “serious.” This change is expected to occur in the spring of 2025 but … Continue reading Change in Nonattainment Designation For The Greater Milwaukee Metropolitan Area
