Download or read book Monitoring of Persistent Toxic Substances in Ontario Great Lakes Basin written by Tom F. Dann and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In cooperation with provincial and municipal environmental agencies, the Analysis and Air Quality Division of Environment Canada collects, compiles and analyzes data on over 300 trace contaminants in ambient air. Sampling is carried out at over 40 urban, suburban and rural locations in the country. Categories of species sampled include fine particulates and metals, volatile organics such as benzene and formaldehyde; semi volatile organic compounds such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins. For many species, sampling has been carried out at the same sites for over 10 years. In 1996, at the request of the Ontario Regional Office of Environment Canada, the compound list was expanded to include a number of additional species that are targeted in the Canada-Ontario agreement (COA) respecting the Great Lakes basin ecosystem"--Introduction.
Download or read book Trends in Levels and Effects of Persistent Toxic Substances in the Great Lakes written by Michael Gilbertson and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: `Are the Great Lakes getting better or worse?' This is the question that the public, scientists and managers are asking the International Joint Commission after a quarter-century of cooperative action by the United States and Canadian governments to clean up the Great Lakes. This volume contains papers from the workshop on Environmental Results, hosted in Windsor, Ontario, by the Great Lakes Science Advisory Board of the International Joint Commission, on September 12 and 13, 1996. The Great Lakes have been through almost a century of severe pollution from the manufacture, use and disposal of chemicals. In the 1960s wildlife biologists started to investigate the outbreaks of reproductive failure in fish-eating birds and ranch mink and to link these to exposure to organochlorine compounds. Human health researchers in the 1980s and 1990s linked growth retardation, behavioral anomalies and deficits in cognitive development with maternal consumption of Great Lakes fish prior to pregnancy. The Great Lakes became the laboratory where the theory of endocrine disruptors was first formulated. Now a group of Great Lakes scientists, hosted by the International Joint Commission, has compiled the story of the trends in the concentrations and effects of persistent toxic substances on wildlife and humans. The technical papers review the suitability of various organisms as indicators, and present the results of long-term monitoring of the concentrations and of the incidence of effects. The evidence shows that there was an enormous improvement in the late 1970s, but that in the late 1990s there are still concentrations of some persistent toxic substances that have stubbornly remained at levels that continue to cause toxicological effects.
Download or read book Toxic Substances Control Programs in the Great Lakes Basin written by Great Lakes Water Quality Board. Toxic Substances Committee and published by Windsor, Ont. : International Joint Commission, Great Lakes Regional Office. This book was released on 1983 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Toxic Substances Control Programs in the Great Lakes Basin written by Great Lakes Water Quality Board. Toxic Substances Committee and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Implementation of the United States Canada Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Canada United States Strategy for the Virtual Elimination of Persistent Toxic Substances in the Great Lakes Basin written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cleaning Up Our Great Lakes written by International Joint Commission and published by The Commission. This book was released on 1991 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Great Lakes Human Health Effects Research Program written by Barry L. Johnson and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2000-07 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1990, Congress amended the Great Lakes (GL) Critical Programs Act, also known as the Fed. Water Pollution Control Act, mandating that the EPA and the ATSDR and the GL states submit a research report assessing the harmful human health effects of water pollutants in the GL basin. ATSDR developed the GL Health Effects Research Strategy to identify human populations residing in the GL basin that may be at greater risk of exposure to chemical contaminants, and to help prevent any adverse health effects. This report provides insight into ATSDR efforts to assess the adverse effects of water pollutants in the GL system on the health of people in the GL states.
Download or read book Economic Instruments for the Virtual Elimination of Persistent Toxic Substances in the Great Lakes Basin written by International Joint Commission and published by Windsor, Ont. : International Joint Commission. This book was released on 1994 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Persistent Toxic Substances written by International Joint Commission and published by [Windsor, Ont.] : The Task Force. This book was released on 1991 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report on Great Lakes Water Quality written by Great Lakes Water Quality Board and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Great Lakes Binational Toxics Strategy written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Control of Discharges of Toxic Pollutants Into the Great Lakes and Their Tributaries written by Jeffery A. Foran and published by International Joint Commission, United States and Canada. This book was released on 1991 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report evaluates the status of components of jurisdictional regulatory programs for toxic substances in the Great Lakes basin. It presents a comparative analysis of selected portions of programs in the Great Lakes basin designed to regulate the discharge of toxic pollutants from point sources. The report focuses on differences in the concentration and mass of pollutants that may be discharged from point sources, based on a selected set of criteria and application procedures used in the Great Lakes basin.
Download or read book The Effects of Great Lakes Contaminants on Human Health written by Barry Leonard and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2000-02 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chapters: historical overview; persistent toxic substances; pathways of exposure; a review of the Great Lakes (GL) human health literature; human health studies outside of the Great Lakes -- exposure to similar persistent toxic substances; limitations of human health studies; characterization of exposure and determination of the profiles and levels in human biologic tissues and fluids; identification of sensitive and specific human reproductive end points; determination of the short- and long-term risk(s) of adverse health effects in the children of exposed parents; and establishment of registries &/or surveillance cohorts in the GL. Illustrated.
Download or read book Guidance on Characterization of Toxic Substances Problems in Areas of Concern in the Great Lakes Basin written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Focus on Great Lakes Water Quality written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Toxic Substances in the Great Lakes written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
