For Immediate Release

Planteco 2nd place Clean-tech Category Winner at the 2011 New England Venture Summit
Boston, MA — December 14, 2011 — Planteco was one of the 79 Top Innovators selected from hundreds of applicants in the tech, clean-tech and life sciences sectors that presented at the 2011 New England Venture Summit (NEVS).  Planteco’s presentation of its innovative environmental remediation solutions, which showcased the effectiveness of Planteco’s products and technology for today’s global environmental remediation challenges, was awarded 2nd place in the Clean-tech category as a first-time presenter.


About New England Venture Summit
Sponsored and run by youngStartup Ventures, NEVS is New England's largest venture capital conference attended by over 450 leading venture capitalists, corporate VCs, investment bankers, angel investors, technology transfer professionals, senior executives of early stage and emerging growth companies, university researchers, incubators and premier service providers.  NEVS has a consistent track record of high level discussion, panels and networking opportunities.  This year’s NEVS was no exception, with participants from more than 40 of the nation's top tier VCs and investors.

About Planteco
Planteco is an innovative industry leader in effective, rapid, low cost and eco-friendly environmental remediation solutions for demilitarization; soil and groundwater contamination.  Planteco’s patented and proprietary technologies address a wide range of environmental challenges posed by munitions, organic pollutants, heavy & toxic metals, pesticides, petrochemicals and radionuclides.

Contact:
info@planteco.com

Week of February 13th, 2012

Coming clean: Water companies call industry to account. 
100Reporters
Now in its eighth year of litigation, a lawsuit playing out in small, rural Madison County Circuit Court in Southern Illinois could set a costly, possibly game-changing, precedent for chemical manufacturers: agrichemical giants whose products spread beyond their initial targets could be responsible for the price of cleanup. 

China’s pollution costs $112bn in annual health care
USA Today
China's unprecedented growth is carrying a steadily steeper price tag as its air pollution hikes the nation's health care costs, finds a new study by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Lasting scars on China's Longjiang River 
Beijing Caixin
A toxic cadmium spill that threatened drinking water supplies for millions of people has local government offering words of regret – but not much else. 

EPA proposal cuts water infrastructure funds, increases air, water pollution grants.
Bloomberg BNA
President Obama proposed a fiscal year 2013 budget containing $8.3 billion in discretionary funding for the Environmental Protection Agency, a $105 million decrease from fiscal 2012 achieved through cuts to state wastewater treatment and drinking water funds.

Pollution concerns over refinery expansion plans
Hindu, India
Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd-Kochi Refinery and Kerala State Pollution Control Board faced ire at a public hearing Tuesday on environmental clearance for the refinery expansion project.

Obama seeks clean energy, pipeline funds in budget. 
Reuters
The White House proposed more funds for renewable energy and pipeline safety in the 2013 budget while renewing the call to end subsidies for the oil and gas sector. 

Caution: Poisonous vegetables for sale on Yamuna bridge
Deccan Herald, India
People stopping by on the Nizamuddin bridge to purchase seemingly fresh vegetables on their return from work is a common sight in east Delhi. Little do they realise that these vegetables are full of poisonous heavy metals, which have a long adverse health impact, particularly on children and the elderly.

EPA says cleanup complete at West Winfield Superfund site
Utica WKTV
The United States Environmental Protection Agency has completed the cleanup site of the Hiteman Leather Superfund site, a former tannery in West Winfield and deleted it from the Superfund National priorities List of the county's most hazardous waste sites.

Technology utilized in contamination search
Fremont News-Messenger, Ohio
Soil, water and gas samples will be collected from 14 sites within a seven-mile radius of the city of Clyde over the next few weeks in an U.S. EPA investigation into possible contamination.

Warning signs go up after arsenic found at Burien park 
Seattle KOMO
Department of Ecology officials are blaming a long-closed Tacoma smelter for raining down arsenic throughout the south sound, and that has some parents worried. 

UNEP and the global green economy
Euractiv, Belgium
Forty years ago, amid rising concern over pollution of the air, the land and the seas; the growing loss of species; and the dying of forests as a result of acid rain, governments agreed to create a UN body charged with coordinating a global response.