Denise Kmetzo, Roux Associates’ Senior Risk Assessment Team Leader, recently published an article on Vapor Intrusion in the American Bar Associations’ Environmental Transactions and Brownfields Committee Newsletter. The article addresses the importance of understanding the potential contribution of background sources to indoor air quality when conducting a vapor intrusion assessment.

You may read the article here.

Walt Eifert, Director of Roux Associates, Inc Engineered Natural Systems Practice, has recently been elected to the Board of Directors of the International Phytotechnology Society (IPS). The IPS is a nonprofit, worldwide professional society comprised of individuals and institutions engaged in the science and application of using plants to deal with environmental problems.

Monitoring Requirements Begin January, 2010;
Monitoring Plans Due By April 1, 2010  

On September 22, 2009, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a final rule for mandatory reporting of greenhouse gases (GHG). The immediate question for many facilities is whether they are large enough emitters of GHGs to be covered by the new reporting rule. If so, they will need to begin collecting, analyzing and reporting data on GHG emissions by January 1, 2010.

Roux Associates Currently Has Five LSRP Licenses

Roux has provided remedial services at thousands of sites in New Jersey over the last 3 decades. As such, Roux is extremely well versed in the procedures, policies and regulations that govern its work in New Jersey. The vast majority of Roux’s work has involved the completion of PA/SI/RI/RA services under NJDEP oversight.

Roux Associates Acquires DOMANI Sustainability Consulting LLC

Islandia, New York; October 5, 2005 -- Roux Associates Inc., one of the nation's premier environmental consulting and management firms, is pleased to announce the acquisition of Domani Sustainability Consulting LLC (DOMANI), a professional services firm specializing in the design and practical implementation of strategic sustainability services.

Islandia, New York; October 20, 2005 -- DOMANI, an international sustainability consulting firm headquartered in Denver, Colorado, announced today it had entered into a strategic business development arrangement with NTT DATA, Japan's largest IT systems integrator.

February 22, 2006; Denver, Colorado - New Mexico has become the first state in the Union to become a member of the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX), the nation's only market-based 'cap-and-trade' system designed specifically to support efficient economies and reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

DOMANI Sustainability Consultants Played Key Roles in Design Development

August 24, 2006; Denver, Colorado - In an Op-Ed piece published in the New York Times (1/18/06, page A19), world-renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning author and New York Times columnist, Thomas L. Friedman, described how a brand new "hyper-efficient green" microchip factory near Dallas, Texas, proves that American manufacturing "can be efficient and profitable and create good American jobs in the 21st Century."

Roux Associates Provides Professional Expertise

October 24, 2006; Islandia, NY - - Alcoa, named one of the most sustainable corporations by the World Economic Forum and one of the top "green" companies in the world by Business Week and The Climate Group, is actively developing, evaluating, and implementing natural sustainable technologies to reduce the environmental footprint at its aluminum smelting, refining, and production facilities.

January 11, 2006; Islandia, NY - Roux Associates is pleased to announce that Denise Kmetzo, Master of Public Health (MPH), was recently hired to head up the firm's Health & Environmental Risk Assessment Practice. Kmetzo is based at Roux's office in Burlington, Massachusetts.