Environmental Perspectives

Neil S. Shifrin consults on a wide range of environmental engineering topics, including water quality, contaminant fate and transport, hazardous waste site cleanups and environmental response cost liability/allocation. His experience extends back to the nation's first Superfund projects, such as Love Canal and includes many complex contamination problems, such as PCBs in major receiving waters, dioxins in the Great Lakes, TCE in large aquifers beneath major cities, and CSO pollution of Boston Harbor. Dr. Shifrin has extensive experience with dense nonaqueous phase liquid (DNAPL), site investigation, remedy concepts, monitoring programs, property redevelopment, historical waste practices, cost allocation, manufactured gas plants, PBT chemicals, solvents and biological processes. Dr. Shifrin’s areas of expertise also include: Remedy negotiations Historical waste practices Insurance claims Environmental measurements Project strategy. He has a chemical engineering B.S. from the University of Pennsylvania and an environmental engineering Ph.D. from MIT. Dr. Shifrin has consulted on virtually every kind of environmental issue for both government and industry.

Introduction.- Historical Context For Examining Industrial Pollution.- Environmental Sampling.- Environmental Analytical Chemistry 101.- Environmental Forensics.- Environmental Data Visualization.- Environmental Modeling.- Risk Assessment.- Water Quality and its Management.- Air Quality and its Management.- The National Contingency Plan.- Technical Impracticability.- Superduperfund.- Heads in the Sand.- The Safety of Chemical Products.