Industrial News

31. EPA Reaches $668M Settlement Agreement For Continued Cleanup Of Lower Duwamish Waterway Superfund Site In Seattle Area 3/4/2026

    Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Department of Justice, and the state of Washington reached agreement on a proposed settlement with more than 100 potentially responsible parties to address hazardous substances released into the Lower Duwamish Waterway in Seattle.

32. Measuring Pollutant-Destroying Molecules Used In Water Treatment 3/4/2026

    Reactive oxygen species are powerful enough to clean our water and more. Argonne researchers found a highly sensitive way to measure them in real time.

33. China Dairy Wastewater Treatment Processes Contractor 3/3/2026

    In the strategic industrial landscape of 2026, the global dairy processing sector—encompassing milk bottling, cheese production, yogurt manufacturing, and milk powder drying—faces a critical environmental mandate.

34. DuPont Water Solutions Expands Data-Driven WAVE PRO Design Tool With Reverse Osmosis And Nanofiltration 3/3/2026

    DuPont Water Solutions today announced the expansion of Water Application Value Engine (WAVE PRO), its advanced online water treatment modeling tool, with the addition of reverse osmosis (RO) and nanofiltration (NF) capabilities.

35. Aquafortus And GS E&C Sign Collaboration Agreement To Advance Secondary Battery Wastewater Treatment In The Republic of Korea 3/2/2026

    Aquafortus, a global leader in advanced brine concentration technology, today announced the signing of a collaboration agreement with GS Engineering & Construction Corp. to develop and commercialize wastewater treatment solutions utilizing Aquafortus' proprietary ABX™ Technology for the secondary battery industrial wastewater sector in the Republic of Korea.

36. Professor Byung-Taek Oh's Team Achieves Simultaneous Antibiotic Wastewater Treatment And Methane Production 2/27/2026

    Antibiotics discharged from hospitals and pharmaceutical plants mix into wastewater and cause environmental pollution. They are especially difficult to treat when multiple types are present together.

37. DOE's Office Of Environmental Management Awards $20M Financial Assistance Cooperative Agreement To Florida International University To Advance Nuclear Cleanup And Innovation 2/27/2026

    The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Environmental Management (EM) announced today that it has awarded a noncompetitive cooperative agreement, valued at $20M, to Florida International University (FIU) in Miami, Florida.

38. Swedish Government Committee Highlights Ragn-Sells' Phosphorus Recovery In EU Negotiations 2/26/2026

    The Swedish government’s Implementation Council has chosen Ragn-Sells’ technology for recovering phosphorus from sewage as an example of how clashing legislations counteract circularity, in a report advising on EU negotiations on the Circular Economy Act.

39. New Water-Treatment System Removes Nitrogen, Phosphorus From Farm Tile Drainage 2/26/2026

    Scientists have developed a new edge-of-field water-treatment system that reduces the load of excess nutrients washing into waterways from farm drainage systems.

40. Data Center Electricity Demand Nearly Doubles To 8.9% By 2030, Shifting Water Risk From Cooling To Power Generation 2/26/2026

    The artificial intelligence (AI)-driven data center boom is fundamentally transforming the U.S. water landscape.