EBI News for October 01, 2025 – Joint venture selected for $240M U.S. Navy CLEAN contract
EBI News for October 01, 2025 – The following news section contains the latest stories for the environmental industry. Including, Joint venture selected for $240M U.S. Navy CLEAN contract, acquisitions, and more!
Joint venture selected for $240M U.S. Navy CLEAN contract
Stantec (Edmonton, Alta.) in partnership with Tetra Tech (Pasadena, Calif.) and APTIM (Baton Rouge, La.) has been awarded an eight-year single award task order contract by the Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command (NAVFAC) Southwest. Work is expected to reach the full contract capacity of $240 million. The Triquetra III joint venture will support the U.S. Navy’s Comprehensive Long-Term Environmental Action Navy (CLEAN) program, performing studies to identify and design remedial alternatives for some of the Navy’s most complex environmental challenges, such as PFAS contamination. Work includes preliminary assessments, site inspections, remedial investigations, feasibility studies, pilot studies, and remedial design. Projects will be primarily on Navy and Marine Corps installations in California, Nevada, and Arizona.
Terraphase welcomes Eolas Environmental
Eolas Environmental LLC (Southbury, Conn.) is joining the consulting company Terraphase Engineering Inc. (Oakland, Calif.), expanding Terraphase’s environmental services in Connecticut. Eolas Environmental is a full-service, woman-owned environmental consulting business that provides site assessments, soil and groundwater investigations, remediation planning and implementation, Connecticut Transfer Act support, hazardous building materials surveys, radon and vapor intrusion studies, environmental health and safety services, and permitting and regulatory compliance services. Terraphase offers services in environmental compliance, water, and site engineering and has 14 offices located mostly on the West and East coasts.
CHA acquires Midwestern Engineers
CHA (Albany, N.Y.) announced that it has acquired Midwestern Engineers Inc., a provider of critical water, wastewater, stormwater and survey services across Indiana. Headquartered in Loogootee and with offices in Indianapolis and Santa Claus, Midwestern brings 45 technical experts in water resources, complementing CHA’s 100 employees in Indianapolis and Evansville currently providing water, wastewater, transportation, aviation-engineering, and environmental services. “Demand for cutting-edge water services continues to grow, particularly in the rural heartland, where there’s a high demand for better infrastructure, planning, and management. The joining of CHA and Midwestern puts us in a strong position to meet that demand and support our clients’ evolving needs,” said Phil Stevens, CHA infrastructure sector president. The acquisition is in line with CHA’s growth strategy to become a leading national provider of integrated critical infrastructure solutions.
Montrose announces 30 projects ahead of HON MACT rule
Montrose Environmental Group Inc. (Little Rock, Ark.) announced that it is engaged in more than 30 projects nationwide to help chemical manufacturers prepare for the upcoming Hazardous Organic NESHAP Maximum Achievable Control Technology (HON MACT) regulation. Efforts span emissions testing, compliance strategy, and monitoring implementation—all designed to support facilities facing deadlines that begin in mid-2026. Finalized by the U.S. EPA in 2024, the HON MACT rule targets hazardous air pollutants emitted by synthetic organic chemical manufacturing and polymer and resin facilities. The regulation introduces stricter controls on ethylene oxide, chloroprene, and other air toxics, with the goal of reducing community-wide cancer risks by up to 96%. “With less than a year remaining, Montrose is helping clients navigate complex requirements and avoid costly delays,” the company stated.
WIN makes sense of fragmented water sector intelligence
The Water Environment Federation and Global Water Intelligence have announced the launch of Water Investment Navigator (WIN), an AI-driven business intelligence tool that simplifies access to public data across the North American water sector. Utility documents are often buried in static formats and spread across thousands of municipal websites, making it difficult for suppliers to pursue infrastructure projects. Using AI to extract and categorize information, WIN automatically organizes public documents as soon as they’re published, providing access to capital improvement plans, state revolving fund applications, and municipal decisions. By revealing upcoming capital expenditures and mapping contract awards, the platform helps users strategize and identify potential partners. WIN currently covers 40,000 active projects with a total value of $60 billion.
Xylem and Amazon partner on smart water upgrades in Mexico
Mexico City and Monterrey, Mexico are partnering with global water technology company Xylem (Washington, D.C.) and Amazon to deploy Xylem Vue, an advanced software platform that applies data and analytics to detect leaks, cut water losses and improve residents’ water supply. According to Xylem, the projects are estimated to save upwards of 800 million liters of water a year in Mexico City and 560 million liters a year in Monterrey. In Mexico City, an estimated 40% of water is lost through leaky pipes. These new projects are among the more than 30 water replenishment projects Amazon has announced globally.
Clean Harbors’ incineration results surpass latest PFAS standards
Clean Harbors Inc. (Norwell, Mass.), a provider of environmental and industrial services throughout North America, announced the results of its latest PFAS study, affirming that its commercial high-temperature, RCRA-permitted incineration facilities can reliably and safely destroy multiple forms of PFAS. Testing protocols were an extension of the initial tests the company conducted in 2021 and 2022 using U.S. EPA standards. The latest study was specifically designed to demonstrate that Clean Harbors’ high-temperature combustion process – ranging from 2,000-2,200 degrees Fahrenheit – could achieve destruction of PFAS compounds while testing for EPA’s stringent new OTM-50 and 0010 (pre-cursor to OTM-55) emission standards. According to Clean Harbors, no other company or destruction technology has met both new EPA emission standards.
Flood risk and dam safety group joins GEI
A team of four expert engineers has joined GEI Consultants (Woburn, Mass.) to strengthen the firm’s Flood Risk Management services. The team comes from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), where they were recognized in 2024 as the National Risk Cadre of the Year by USACE’s Risk Management Center. The team has extensive experience in risk assessment and risk-informed decision-making during all project phases. The team has worked nationally on high hazard potential dams and levees and more recently on risk-informed design initiatives along the Eastern Seaboard.
Jacobs leads resilient infrastructure design in Puerto Rico
Jacobs (Dallas) has been selected by the Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority to provide planning, permitting and design services for the Mayagüez Ocean Outfall Replacement under a capital improvement program to modernize Puerto Rico’s water infrastructure. The large-diameter 1.1-mile pipeline, which carries treated wastewater from the Mayagüez Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant into the Atlantic Ocean, sustained major damage during Hurricane Maria. Leveraging advanced oceanographic and geotechnical analysis, diffuser optimization, and both trenchless and open-cut construction strategies, the new system will be designed to withstand hurricanes and seismic events, improve the dilution of treated wastewater and reduce impacts on marine habitats.
Energy Recovery secures $31M in desal contracts
Energy Recovery (San Leandro, Calif.) has announced new contract awards totaling about $31 million for its PX Pressure Exchanger devices, supporting multiple seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) desalination projects in Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and other GCC nations. Once completed, the plants will supply more than 1.6 million cubic meters of fresh water per day to the region, meeting demand from rapidly growing populations in hyper-arid climates. The company expects to fulfill the orders by the end of Q4 2025. The PX technology is designed to lower the high energy-costs of SWRO facilities. The company stated that its devices cut energy use by up to 60%, operate with up to 98% efficiency and feature a 30-year design life with no scheduled maintenance.
Egis bolsters environmental and water capabilities
Egis (Paris, France), a global architecture, consulting, construction engineering, operations and mobility services company, has acquired Ecometrix (Mississauga, Ontario), an environmental and water consultancy. Founded in 2004, Ecometrix delivers high-end environmental services, supporting permitting and regulatory compliance to the mining, nuclear, government and private sectors through its 60 staff in Ontario. The acquisition enhances Egis’s environmental expertise and doubles the firm’s environmental presence, boosting its ability to deliver integrated solutions in nuclear, mining and water resources.
Goldman Sachs Research forecasts bright future for solar energy
The rise in solar energy generation is the fastest in the history of electricity, reaching 2,129 TWh (terawatt-hours) in 11 years and driving 8% of global power generation over the last 12 months, according to Goldman Sachs Research. Despite reduced policy support, Goldman Sachs Research still expects rapid growth in global solar installations over the next five years, concluding that solar energy is likely to meet a high share of global energy demand over the long run because its three main drivers appear structural, not policy driven: First, “learning-by-doing” has sharply reduced the cost of solar panels, with investment costs falling faster for solar panels than for any other investment good in modern history, including computers and communication equipment. Second, solar has marginal fuel costs of zero. Third, solar panels are modular— coming in small sizes available at constant fixed prices, making it easier to create a decentralized grid.
Nextracker backs steel frame technology for solar
Nextracker (Freemont, Calif.), a publicly traded solar technology platform provider, announced its expansion into the solar panel frame market with the acquisition of Origami Solar Inc. (Bend, Ore.), a pioneer in roll-formed steel frame technology, in an all-cash transaction of approximately $53 million. “Solar panel frame technology has been relatively unchanged for over 45 years,” said Dan Shugar, founder and CEO of Nextracker. “During that time, the size and dynamic wind loads on solar panels have increased dramatically, especially in utility-scale tracking applications. From a structural engineering perspective, the shift from aluminum to steel is compelling — steel offers greater strength at competitive cost and significantly reduced carbon intensity. Most importantly, it helps to unlock opportunities for localized manufacturing… while delivering real customer benefits like faster panel installation and improved long-term system performance. And with an estimated total addressable market in excess of $750 million in the U.S. alone, we see this as a substantial new business opportunity.”
Chesapeake Bay Partners achieve large-scale oyster restoration goal
Dozens of environmental partners marked a major milestone for oyster restoration in Chesapeake Bay in September. Totaling roughly 2,000 acres of habitat restored, this effort is considered the largest oyster restoration initiative in the world.
The 2014 Chesapeake Bay Agreement—a joint federal and state plan to restore the Bay—outlined a key goal to fully restore 10 Bay tributaries for oyster habitat by the end of 2025. That goal was officially exceeded earlier this summer. Most of the reefs are meeting or greatly exceeding goals for oyster abundance. Oysters are a keystone species in the Bay, creating habitat for other animals and filtering water: A single adult oyster can filter up to 50 gallons a day.
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