Vapor intrusion is an increasingly problematic condition for the owners, operators, and prospective buyers of buildings in close proximity to shallow soil and/or ground water contaminated with gasoline, solvents, and other mixtures of toxic volatile chemicals (collectively referred to as VOCs).

With today’s heightened awareness of our effects on the global environment, building owners, tenants, and state and federal regulatory agencies are assessing green alternatives to “business as usual”.

Even minor changes to an office or industrial facility’s operational procedures can result in significant reductions in the emission of greenhouse gases (mainly VOC’s).  Additionally, in almost every case, a less carbon intensive approach to building operations maintenance and renovation also brings about both long and short term conservation of financial resources (i.e., cost savings).

Environmental Waste Management Associates Receives 2008 Best of Parsippany Award -- U.S. Local Business Association’s Award Plaque Honors the Achievement.

By Michael Logue
“Green building”, “sustainable development”, “carbon friendly”, “carbon footprint”, “environmental accounting” are all terms that have exploded across the trade press and mass media since the UN Environmental Programme’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change unequivocal announcement in 2007 that global warming is occurring, and that it has an anthropogenic (human caused) component.  Regardless of your scientific or political beliefs, the marketplace (customers, clients, and probably very soon, regulatory agencies) is clamoring for ways to demonstrate that the impacts of our most common, every day commercial and retail practices – merchandise displays, parking lot maintenance, lighting – on the world’s highly interconnected climate and associated ecosystem have been considered and minimized.

By Alfred Moffit, C.P.G.
The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) began the Cleanup Star Program in February 2004 to expedite environmental investigations and cleanups at low-risk sites, and has succeeded in this program over the past three years.  The Cleanup Star Program allows certified environmental professionals/consultants to investigate and remediate specific qualifying sites and Areas of Concern (AOCs) with limited NJDEP oversight. 

Parsippany, NJ (June 2, 2008) – Environmental Waste Management Associates, LLC (EWMA) a full service, environmental consulting and remediation firm, has announced the addition of Donald A. Smith, P. G. as Principal Hydrogeologist.

Environmental Waste Management Associates, LLC (EWMA) a full service, environmental consulting and remediation firm, has donated a Red Oak tree to the Lanidex office complex landscape in honor of Arbor Day 2008.