TEA, Inc./RemQuest announces an agreement with JODER Consulting, Inc. (JODER) which establishes a vehicle through which our green and sustainable remediation products and services can be purchased through an SDVOSB to contractors working on Federal sites. This agreement offers a definite advantage to our customers when pursuing government contracts.

JODER was established by General Joe Oder, a retired U.S. Army Brigadier General, and is a certified Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB), located in Destin, Florida. Gen. Oder’s background in the U.S. Army has given him the necessary project management skills and understanding of the federal marketplace to prepare and deliver products to government standards on time and within budget.

According to Gen. Oder, “the marketing agreement between JODER and TEA, Inc./RemQuest will afford the federal marketplace direct access to some of the world’s premier environmental remediation products for use at federal facilities in the United States and around the globe. Not only will we be able to help the federal government with their environmental remediation concerns, we’ll also be helping the government meet their socioeconomic goals and Executive Order 13360 which directs that at least 3 percent of all federal agencies’ contracting dollars go to businesses owned by service-disabled veteran-owned businesses. As such, coupling JODER’s strategy consultants and contracting vehicles with TEA, Inc./RemQuest’s line of green and sustainable environmental remediation products and technologies provides a common sense approach to environmental problem solving.”

For more information on this newly established alliance, contact Dr. Brad Droy at bdroy@teainconline.com or 850-231-1939.

RemQuest is the newly established products division of TEA, Inc. The goal in forming RemQuest was to focus on the marketing of our current products and the research and development of new remediation products that fit with our commitment to green and sustainable remediation. RemQuest offers a variety of products focused on the destruction of environmental contaminants in place (in-situ), utilizing natural processes and eliminating the need for contaminant transfer in obtaining remediation goals.

 The objective at RemQuest is to seamlessly interact with environmental consultants and other end users of remediation products to enhance their remediation capabilities and optimize the effectiveness of their remedial designs.

Click on this link (www.remquestonline.com) to visit the RemQuest website for additional information, or contact Mr. Wes Theriot at 225-767-3819 or wtheriot@remquestonline.com.

TEA, Inc. recently implemented an ENGINEERED_PHYTOREMEDIATION^SM pilot study (EnPhySys^SM) at an active chemical facility on the West coast. The plantation consists of 80 trees, including 13 different species. The purpose of the pilot study is to evaluate and select a species of tree(s) to hydraulically control groundwater at the site. The trees were planted in closed bottom TreeWell^® units with metered water supplies. The observed transpiration rates and viability of the various species of trees will be used to design a full scale ENGINEERED_PHYTOREMEDIATION^SM  system to affect hydraulic control of groundwater. TEA, Inc. is one of the few remediation companies able to fully implement an ENGINEERED_PHYTOREMEDIATION^SM project at an active industrial/chemical facility. The TEA, Inc. team was able to meet the stringent safety and health requirements set forth by OSHA, Cal OSHA and the client.

To learn more about the benefits of EnPhySys^SM, please contact Mr. Wes Theriot at 225-767-3819 or wtheriot@teainconline.com.

TEA is dedicated to the pursuit of green and sustainable remediation technologies. There is much discussion over the term “green.” What makes something “green” and how “green” is it? Dr. Brad Droy, President and CEO of TEA, is currently serving on a subcommittee of the ASTM International’s Environmental Assessment, Risk Management and Corrective Action Committee. He is working in cooperation with other participants on the E50.04 subcommittee to develop a proposed new standard, “Green and Sustainable Site Assessment and Cleanup“. These standards are based on a list of green cleanup core elements developed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ASTM International states that “the goal of the standard guide is to first provide useful information on environmental/green, economic, and social aspects that can be used within the site assessment and cleanup process and also to present a scalable framework to include these aspects within the decision making process under various cleanup programs thus addressing green and sustainable remediation (GSR) practices.”

For more information on TEA’s implementation of green technologies, contact Dr. Droy at 225-767-3880 or bdroy@teainconline.com.

The Louisiana Department of Natural Resources, Office of Conservation, has developed Site Evaluation and Remediation Procedures (SERP) for evaluating and remediating contamination at oil and gas exploration and production (E&P) sites. The proposed SERP Manual closely parallels the Risk Evaluation/Corrective Action Program (RECAP) procedures for Underground Storage Tanks (USTs) developed by the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ). However, there are important differences to accommodate the unique characteristics of oilfield wastes. Dr. Linda Cummings of TEA, and Kai Midboe, Esq. of McGlinchey Stafford Law Firm have written a paper to provide an understanding of the SERP process and how this manual will apply to and potentially impact typical E&P site investigation and remediation. This paper was recently published in the Louisiana Oil & Gas Association (LOGA) Industry News and posted on the LexisNexis website.For more information on the new SERP manual and how it may affect you, please contact Dr. Cummings at 225-767-3880 or lcummings@teainconline.com.