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IET Guide to Houston Growth Faulting & Subsidence Reaches 1,000 Views

According to Academia.edu, as of this date, the publication has been reached by 1,000 interested persons through that venue in the Houston area and in counties up and down the Gulf Coast, but also including Arizona, and California where similar problems exist, and in some 48 countries, including China, Russia, India, many African countries and others where over-pumping of groundwater from unconsolidated and consolidated sediments exist along with similar geological conditions where growth faulting is a dominant structural feature within soft sediments. The authors are pleased by the significant interest demonstrated by the readership of the Guide. During the [...]

By Editor|2025-08-04T19:09:45-05:00May 11th, 2017|AIPG-TX News|

The Wise Report

The USGS has assessed water quality from 6,600 wells in regionally extensive aquifers that supply most of the groundwater pumped for the nation's drinking water, irrigation, and other uses. A series of new USGS reports highlight how geology, hydrology, geochemistry, and chemical use affect the concentrations of individual contaminants in groundwater. Regional summaries of where and why groundwater is vulnerable to contamination now are available. The report that includes the Texas Gulf Coast can be found at: http://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/1356/. Links to the other reports can be found on the same page. Michael D. Campbell, with I2M Associates, LLC announced the [...]

By admin|2025-08-04T20:13:20-05:00January 24th, 2015|AIPG-TX News|

The Wise Report

During the mid-1990s, the Institute of Environmental Technology (IET), consisting of associates of the Environmental Litigation Associates (ELA) and other senior environmental professionals in the Houston area, taught a 4-month program designed to cross-train professional refugees from a depressed oil and gas industry for the purpose of finding employment in an expanding environmental industry. Over more than 5 years, some 400 geologists, engineers, and other professionals graduated from that program, most of whom found meaningful professional employment. When the oil and gas activity returned a few years later, the graduates offered a better background to potential employers than before [...]

By admin|2025-08-04T20:13:40-05:00January 17th, 2015|AIPG-TX News|

The Wise Report

The EPA is proposing new rules for in situ mining. A number of states, including Texas, already have many or all of these rules in place. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy signed a draft of the proposed rules on Dec. 31. A 90-day public-comment period on the new "Health and Environmental Protection Standards for Uranium and Thorium Mill Tailings" opens when the final draft is published in the Federal Register. The publication date is uncertain. An EPA fact sheet on the new rules says that the original standards were issued 1983 and revised in 1995. Since that time, [...]

By admin|2025-08-04T20:13:56-05:00January 17th, 2015|AIPG-TX News|

IET Guide to Growth Faulting and Subsidence

http://ela-iet.com/HouFaultGuideDecember2014.pdf During the mid-1990s, the Institute of Environmental Technology (IET), consisting of associates of the Environmental Litigation Associates (ELA) and other senior environmental professionals in the Houston area, taught a 4-month program designed to cross-train professional refugees from a depressed oil and gas industry for the purpose of finding employment in an expanding environmental industry. Over more than 5 years, some 400 geologists, engineers, and other professionals graduated from that program, most of whom found professional employment. One of the objectives of the IET program was to provide continuing support after graduation. The Guide released today is the result [...]

By admin|2025-08-04T20:14:49-05:00December 17th, 2014|AIPG-TX News|