Download or read book Toxic Releases by Manufacturing written by Robert E. B. Lucas and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1992 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Would free trade result in greater and more rapid environmental degradation for developing countries? Less protection of their domestic industrial chemical industries would reduce the pollution-intensity of their manufacturing sector - but merely relocating firms that emit globally damaging toxins clearly misses the point.
Download or read book Toxic Releases by Manufacturing written by Robert E. B. Lucas and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Toxic Substances written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tracking Toxic Substances at Industrial Facilities written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1990-02-01 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In response to a congressional mandate, this book examines whether knowing the amounts of toxic substances entering and leaving manufacturing facilities is useful in evaluating chemical releases to the environment, waste reduction progress, and chemical management practices. Tracking of these substances with rigorous engineering data is compared with a less resource-intensive alternative to determine the feasibility and potential usefulness to the public and the government.
Download or read book Toxic Releases by Manufacturing written by Robert E. Lucas (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Toxic Chemicals written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Toxic Chemicals written by Thomas E. Higgins and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catastrophic events such as the Bhopal, India tragedy and rising incidences of cancer in areas neighboring industrial facilities have heightened concern over the use of toxic chemicals in manufacturing and industry. Based on the authors' research conducted in Sao Paulo, Brazil, this book explores the history of toxic chemical release reporting programs, presents data on the toxicity of chemicals currently in use, discusses variables that contribute to the relative toxicity of a substance, compares existing programs for reducing environmental threats, and provides specific recommendations for reducing or eliminating the use of toxic chemicals.
Download or read book EPA Office of Compliance Sector Notebook Project written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Toxics Release Inventory written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Impact on U S Manufacturing written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform. Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Green Chemistry written by Hosam El-Din M. Saleh and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-02-28 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To an increasing extent, "green chemistry" is a new chemical and engineering approach of chemistry and engineering, dedicated to make manufacturing processes and our world as a whole more sustainable world with a growing tendency. "Green chemistry" approaches are based on ecofriendly technologies, aiming to reduce or eliminate the use of solvents, or render them efficient and safer. Moreover, this scientific field is devoted to reduction or elimination of prevailing environmental and health threats, which typically accompany chemical products and traditional processes. The present book "Green Chemistry" contains 9 selected chapters, starting with a general introductory chapter on "green chemistry," and covers many recent applications and developments based on the principles of "green chemistry." This book is considered the appropriate way to communicate the advances in green materials and their applications to the scientific community. Chemists, scientists and researchers from related areas, and undergraduates involved in environmental issues and interested in approaches to improve the quality of life could find an inspiring and effective guide by reading this book.
Download or read book The Spatial Distribution of Industrial Production and Toxic Releases in the United States written by Todd Lee Matthews and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manufacturing in the United States has been in a period of general decline over much of the past fifty years, though this overall pattern of de-industrialization has occurred at different times and intensities in specific geographical regions. However, local officials and development experts still focus efforts on attracting manufacturing industries into their communities, an effort often referred to as "smokestack chasing." At the same time, environmentalism has been of increasing importance in the consciousness of American citizens. One of the central concerns of environmentalists and environmentally-oriented policy makers has been the pollution generated by these manufacturing facilities. As a result of these conflicting foci and interests, an intractable dividing line has emerged between those who view manufacturing as a source of local economic growth and employment opportunities, and those who are primarily interested in environmental quality and protection. This debate, characterized as one of "jobs versus the environment," has been a central rhetorical frame utilized by the competing sides in both the policy and academic arenas. Numerous diverse strands of thought about these issues are synthesized into three primary theoretical perspectives, each of which purports to explain the economy-environment relationship. An assessment of the empirical relationship between economic standing, change, and environmental quality conducted using a variety of data sources and analytical techniques. Significant findings emerged which can be utilized to inform the environmental social sciences as well as policy makers and communities facing these issues.
Download or read book Biological Treatment of Industrial Wastewater written by Maulin P. Shah and published by Royal Society of Chemistry. This book was released on 2021-12-03 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biological Treatment of Industrial Wastewater presents a comprehensive overview of the latest advances and trends in the use of bioreactors for treating industrial wastewater.
Download or read book Industrial Environmental Performance Metrics written by National Academy of Engineering and National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1999-08-24 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Industrial Environmental Performance Metrics is a corporate-focused analysis that brings clarity and practicality to the complex issues of environmental metrics in industry. The book examines the metrics implications to businesses as their responsibilities expand beyond the factory gateâ€"upstream to suppliers and downstream to products and services. It examines implications that arise from greater demand for comparability of metrics among businesses by the investment community and environmental interest groups. The controversy over what sustainable development means for businesses is also addressed. Industrial Environmental Performance Metrics identifies the most useful metrics based on case studies from four industriesâ€"automotive, chemical, electronics, and pulp and paperâ€"and includes specific corporate examples. It contains goals and recommendations for public and private sector players interested in encouraging the broader use of metrics to improve industrial environmental performance and those interested in addressing the tough issues of prioritization, weighting of metrics for meaningful comparability, and the longer term metrics needs presented by sustainable development.
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Download or read book Toxics Release Information written by Madhu Khanna and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the effectiveness of public disclosure of environmental performance information as a long-run policy tool for the regulation of toxic pollution by firms. Since 1987 the US EPA requires all manufacturing firms to report their toxics releases annually. This information is compiled into a database, the Toxics Releases Inventory (TRI), and made available to the public. It is expected that well functioning markets will signal public reaction to this information directly to firms through changes in demand for their products and stocks and prompt firms to control pollution. Information based strategies are an innovative effort at enlisting market forces in the quest for efficient pollution control while reducing the role of big government bureaucracy. But it is important to examine how effective such strategies are. This study addresses two main issues. First, it examines the impact of repeated public provision of TRI data on the stock market returns of firms. Second, it develops an econometrically estimable model of a firm's choice of pollution levels to analyze the feedback effect of the change in stock market returns, following release of the TRI, on subsequent levels of pollution. These issues are addressed in the context of the U.S. chemical industry for the period 1989-94. The chemical industry is the largest contributor to toxic releases generated by manufacturing industries. Previous studies based on cross-sectional data show that companies incurred significantly negative stock market returns on the day of the disclosure of the TRI, for the first time in 1989. These studies, however, also show that the largest 'penalties', in the form of the largest declines in stock prices, were not targeted towards the largest emitters but towards firms that were not 'known' to be polluters on the basis of prior environmental information available to investors. This suggests that the greater the prior environmental information that investors have about a firm, the smaller the impact of the provision of additional information on their stock market returns. In other words, it indicates diminishing effects on investors of providing additional information about known polluters. Using the event study methodology, this paper demonstrates that sample firms incur negative stock market returns during the one-day period following the disclosure of the TRI. These returns were not statistically significant in 1989, the first year of the release of the TRI, because these firms were already known to be polluters. However, repeated provision of the TRI information caused investors to focus on the changes in the level of toxic pollution generated. This causes the negative stock market returns of even known polluter firms, such as those in the chemical industry, to become statistically significant from the second year onwards (1990-94). Econometric analysis shows that these losses in market values led firms to modify their pattern of pollution generation and management. Market reaction had a significantly negative impact on their subsequent on-site toxic releases but a significantly positive impact on wastes transferred off-site for recycling and transfer. However, the net effect of these losses on the aggregate volume of toxic wastes generated by these firms is insignificant.
Download or read book Going to the Source written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
