The East Palestine train wreck is just the most recent example of our struggles with communication of environmental disasters in our...

The May 25, 2023, Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) ruling in Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency adds clarity for...

Hot Topics Facilitation – How Young Professionals Can Build a Facilitation Team and Empower Their Careers Asset Management – Eight...

Diversifying the number of sources in a public drinking water system has positives and negatives. According to one source, approximately...

1. What is PFAS? PFAS, or perfluoroalkyl or polyfluoroalkyl substances, are fluorinated carbon-chain compounds. PFAS has been used in...

PFAS is an issue filled with complexity, difficulty, and uncertainty. The good news is that the USEPA does a good job with technical...

Root cause analysis (RCA) is a collective term that describes a wide range of approaches, tools, and techniques used to uncover the...

South Carolina appears in many evaluations as one of the top ten states that are susceptible to climate change. One climate change source...

The stakes are high. The problem is difficult. We search for the facilitation approach that rises to the level of the problem. Not so...

Jeff Lineberger and Charles Wingard provided some great insights on all types of facilitation. I sat down with Jeff a few months ago to...

On June 15, 2022, US EPA reduced the current Health Advisory Levels (HALs) of 70 parts per trillion for PFOA and PFOS (combined) to 0.004...

JD Solomon serves as a co-author with Dr. Diane Lauritsen for this paper at the 2022 Joint Aquatic Sciences Meeting (JASM) in Grand...

JD Solomon will be facilitating the Lightning Talk on "Understanding Changes in North Carolina’s Bay Lakes Over Time: Lake Waccamaw...

North Carolina recently moved to regulate a class of "connecting" wetlands due to a permitting gap that resulted from the Biden...

The USEPA release of new assessment tools to thwart harmful algal blooms is a step in the right direction. In particular, the new...

The recently passed infrastructure bill provides billions of dollars for progressive infrastructure aimed at beneficial reuse, energy...

Emerging compounds are much like illicit drugs – manufacturers are continually creating new “designer” versions to make our lives a...

Drinking treated wastewater is still a few years away because there is not enough demand for it. The technology exists that makes it...

Waters of the United States (WOTUS) are based on the federal Clean Water Act. The goal of the Clean Water Act is to restore and maintain...

USEPA’s draft Contaminant Candidate List (CCL 5) includes 66 chemicals, three chemical groups (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances...