Understand Important Environmental Issues & Headaches With This Easy and Fun-to-Read Newsletter

"Knowledge is Power"

I'm Ami Adini, President of Ami Adini & Associates. I've dealt with many interesting environmental issues since starting off in the environmental business back in 1983.

The environmental field is overflowing with complex and esoteric terminology that limits knowledge and reduces power and economic gain.

My newsletters are down-to-earth, fun-to-read accounts of what's happening in our industry.

They're aimed at making environmental issues *simple*, providing enlightening information that'll save you time and money.

Below are a few of my recent newsletters. Take your pick. Have a good read.

Write me back about any specific environmental issues you need to know more about.

Back Issues:
#187	Notes on Groundwater Contamination
#186	Septic Tanks
#185	Commingled Plumes
#184	Combustion of Fossil Fuel – A Global Impact
#183	Petroleum Hydrocarbon Compounds; Series 4
#182	Free Petroleum Floating on Groundwater — the Apparency
#181	SRisky Practices
#180	Sulfates in Drinking Water
#179	Petroleum Hydrocarbon Compounds; Series 3
#178	Testing for Petroleum Hydrocarbon Compounds; Series 2
#177	Testing for Petroleum Hydrocarbon Compounds; Series 1
#176	Hydrogeologic Cycle
#175	Environmental Base Line
#174	No Two Cases Are Alike
#173	The taking of an open-ended contamination case to a near term CLOSURE
#172	On Piezometers and Monitoring Wells
#171	Environmental Due Diligence in Real property Transactions

Back Issues: 161 170
#170	Detention Basins
#169	Wetlands Assessment
Special	CAN something BE DONE ABOUT IT?
#168	Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs)
Special	Special Bulletin - Kelsoe Vs SWRCB
#167	Apparent vs. Actual Free Floating Petroleum
#166	Supreme Court Expands Superfund Cost Recovery Scheme
#165	Rocks and Water Series 2
#164	Rocks and Water Series 1
#163	Bio-Slurping
#162	The Oxidation-Reduction Potential
#161	Oxidation and Reduction aka Redox

Back Issues: 151-160
#160	The Groundwater Gradient Factor in Phase I Environmental Site Assessments
#159	Performance Based Standards
#158	Appropriate Inquiry
#157	Potential of Hydrogen and the Cleanup of Contaminated Aquifers
#156	The Groundwater Monitoring Wellr
#155	Extracting Liquid Contamination from Soils and Groundwater
#154	Corrective Action
#153	CAN something BE DONE ABOUT IT?
#152	Sanborn Maps
#151	Database Series #2

Back Issues: 141-150
#150	Database Series #1
#149	Finding the Direction of the Groundwater Flow
#148	Evaluation of Contaminated Properties
#147	Zone of Influence (ZOI)
#146	CAN something BE DONE ABOUT IT?
#145	Aquifer Pumping Test
#144	Darcy’s Law
#143	“Permeable” is “Porous,” but “Porous” May Not Be “Permeable”
#142	Non-point Source Pollution
#141	Point Source

Back Issues: 131-140
#140	Hydraulic Gradient
#139	The Fenton’s Factor
#138	Total Cleanup
#137	Groundwater Basin
#136	The Exploding Drum
#135	“Radial Flow”
#134	Water Resources Control Board
#133	Los Angeles Basin
#132	Stratigraphy
#131	Groundwater Sampling

Back Issues: 121-130
#130	ToxFAQs™
#129	Aquifers
#128	Monitoring Wells and Piezometers
#127	What is a Lysimeter?
#126	Organic Compounds
#125	Air Sparging
#124	Air Stripping
#123	On the Communication of Concepts
#122	Changes in the CERCLA
#121	Limited Liability for Developers

Back Issues: 111-120
#120	Henry's Law
#119	Interesting Numbers
#118	Advection
#117	The End of Endless Cleanup
#116	Is It Absorption? Adsorption?
#115	The California Underground Storage Tank Cleanup Fund
#114	On Identities, Similarities and Differences
#113	Exploding Grounds
#112	Where Did That Chemical Go
#111	Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs)

Back Issues: 101-110
#110	What is PCE?
#109	Probabilities and Possibilities in Phase One
#108	What is Asbestos?
#107	Spill Containment and Storage
#106	Geology for the Uninitiated
#105	Soil Gas Surveys
#104	Mobile Laboratories
#103	Sonic Drilling
#102	The Direct Push Platform
#101	Site Characterization Work II

Back Issues: 91-100
#99	Contaminant Source Areas – IV
Special	Supreme Court Decision Limits Liability
#98	Contaminant Source Areas – III
#97	Contaminant Source Areas – II
#96	Contaminant Source Areas – I
#95	Drycleaning Waste Mgt. Practices III
#94	Drycleaning Waste Mgt. Practices II
#93	Drycleaning Waste Mgt. Practices I
#92	Solvent Discharge, Drycleaning Ops.
#91	Drycleaning Equipment

Back Issues 81-90
#90	Chemicals Used in Drycleaning Ops	#85	New Brownfield Funding
#89	Asbestos-Related Claims	#84	Phase I Site Assessment News
#88	Wealth to be made from USTs	#83	Perchlorate Contamination
#87	Brownfields	#82	Mold Contamination
#86	Drycleaning Operations	#81	DTSC Settlement

Back Issues 71-80
#80	Environmental Glossary VII	#75	Environmental Glossary II
#79	Environmental Glossary VI	#74	Environmental Glossary I
#78	Environmental Glossary V	#73	Buried Objects, Metal Detection
#77	Environmental Glossary IV	#72	Buried Objects, Magnetic Method
#76	Environmental Glossary III	#71	Buried Objects, Elect. Resistivity

Back Issues 61-70
#70	Buried Objects - Electromagnetic	#65	The Hydrologic Cycle
#69	Risks of PCE	#64	UST Cleanup Training
#68	Ground Penetrating Radar	#63	Subsurface Vapor Intrusion
#67	Superfund & Dry Cleaning	#62	Funding of Perc Cleanup
#66	Finding Buried Objects	#61	Groundwater Flow

Back Issues 51-60
#60	New Petroleum Worries	#55	Hot Dogs & Drinking Water
#59	Targeting Perchlorate Pollution	#54	Groundwater Contamination
#58	Contaminated Water Illustration	#53	Chlorinated Solvents
#57	More on Perchlorate	#52	UST Leak Detection
#56	Dioxane Contamination	#51	REA Program

Back Issues 41-50
#50	UST Cleanup Fund Eligibility	#45	On Being an Expert
#49	More on Expertise	#44	Environmental Samples. Caution.
#48	The New MTBE	#43	Perchlorate Risk in Drinking Water
#47	On Formations & Heads	#42	Dissipation of Chemicals
#46	Detection by Light	#41	Where did that Chemical Go?

PDF Back Issues 31-40
#40	Phase 1	#35	Fiberglass or Steel?
#39	Cleanup Fund	#34	Is it too Late?
#38	MTBE	#33	Beating my Drums
#37	Pipe in the Middle	#32	Where I was
#36	Is it Contaminated?	#31	Petroleum Contamination