By Steve Jaasund

In July, 1968 I was driving north over the Raritan River on the Garden State Parkway when I decided that my work toward a degree in Chemical Engineering could be best utilized in doing something to clean up our environment. At the time, the Raritan River was a literal sewer and the air above it was choking me so badly I was forced to roll the windows up—a real sacrifice in the middle of a New Jersey summer.

Since that time I have spent nearly forty years researching, designing, installing, operating and selling air emission control systems for industrial operations—many of them very much like the polluting factories that so impressed me on that hot summer afternoon. Continue reading Four Decades into Earth Day—An Engineer’s Perspective