Science has been good to mankind, but some people would argue it doesn’t do the same for the environment. Science and technology has come up with medicine, cures and everything that makes life easier for humans but at the expense of what? Of the environment. Mother Nature paid the price. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to say that the world was in much better shape one hundred years ago. Back then there was less pollution, no threat of climate change, and people in general didn’t have worry about the world ending anytime soon. It’s ironic how scientific development seems to have made a paranoid out of every person on the planet.

This is where environmental remediation comes in. If you think about it, it’s about time science gives something back to the planet that sheltered it for so long. While some scientists are too busy inventing the new rocket ship to Mars or remaking the latest product line for Apple, others choose to turn their attention to the science of environmental remediation. I know what you’re thinking: what is environmental remediation?

Remediation takes its root form from the word “remedy”, which means to cure or solve something, a particular problem. So environmental remediation is the process of removing contaminants or pollution from the environment and its media, including surface water, sediment, groundwater and soil for the general protection of the environment and human health. It sounds reassuring right, that a body of science exists to “remediate” the planet we all live in. Even if everything is polluted, when water is no longer blue and the skies are dark with industrial smoke, maybe… there is hope.

But the practice of environmental remediation is pretty blurry in some areas. There is lack of regulation, though some countries are starting to put up standard practices to regulate these remediation efforts.

For example, in the United States, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) maintains and regulates the Preliminary Remediation Goals or PRGs, the country’s most comprehensive set of standardized rules. A similar set of standards exists in Europe, called the Dutch Standards. But the European Union (EU) is pushing to implement its own Europe-wide set of standards even though most European nations are already regulating their own practices. Which standards European nations should follow is yet to be decided at the moment.

In Canada the situation is no different. Environmental remediation standards are set by the provincial government individually, though the Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment is looking to provide support and guidance to the set practices at a federal level. Only time will tell when governments would be able to implement a clear cut set of standards for their respective countries.

If anything, governments should be working to bolster the standardized practices of environmental remediation. Hey, it is science for the environment, and any effort to save or even just to preserve the environment should be given top priority at all times – no questions asked. Environmental remediation is that branch of science we should all support as inhabitants of the same environment that covers the entire planet.

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