Download or read book Public Health Statements written by United States. Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains information about 80 hazardous substances, including what each substance is, how exposure may occur and possible health effects, and medical tests available to determine exposure.
Download or read book Common Chemicals Found at Superfund Sites written by United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Emergency and Remedial Response and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Toxic Substances Controls Primer written by Mary Devine Worobec and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book What You Need to Know about Toxic Substances Commonly Found at Superfund Hazardous Waste Sites written by United States. Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hazardous Substances Public Health written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Superfund Concept written by United States. Interagency Task Force on Compensation and Liability for Releases of Hazardous Substances and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Public Health Statements What You Need to Know About Toxic Substances Commonlu Found at Superfund Hazardous Waste Sites written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Common Cleanup Methods at Superfund Sites written by United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Emergency and Remedial Response and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Toxic Substances and Hazardous Wastes written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 1094 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Superfund Manual written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hazardous Wastes Superfund and Toxic Substances written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cutting Green Tape written by Richard L. Stroup and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hundreds of hazardous waste sites are on the Superfund National Priority List in the United States, and thousands more could become eligible. The Superfund has spent or ordered the spending of billions of dollars, with little apparent impact on human health risks. While public perception of the real or imagined hazardous nature of consumer and industrial substances has resulted in widespread attention to the issue, lawsuits have proliferated with liability aimed at "deep pockets" instead of individual agents who may be responsible. Contributors to Cutting Green Tape carefully examine the existence and severity of the toxic harms and liability problem, the erosion of a clear tort legal system to settle disputes, and whether a clearly defined system of property rights could be developed to reduce the dangers from toxic substances. Cutting Green Tape rethinks the nature and impact of today's environmental bureaucracy. Rather than continue unworkable, cumbersome, and often contradictory regulations, Cutting Green Tape prescribes a clearer tort legal system to settle disputes and demonstrates that clearly defined environmental property rights would reduce the threat of toxic substances. Among the many topics addressed are: air toxins policy; pollution, damages, and tort law; risk assessment, insurance, and public information; protecting groundwater; regulation of carcinogens; contracting for health and safety; and toxin torts by government. The book converges on a central theme: when common law remedies, with their burden of proof and standards of evidence, are replaced by the legislatively mandated regulatory regimes described, a problem emerges. The bureaucratic "tunnel vision" described by Justice Stephen Breyer, tends to take over. The police powers of the state are given to bureaucratic decision makers who are limited only by the blunt instrument of political influence, rather than by the need to show harm or wrongdoing in an unbiased court (as the police are), or by a budget on expenditures set by the Congress (as most bureaus are). The excesses described in the chapters thus result not from incompetence in the bureaus, but from the expansive powers granted to decision makers who are tightly focused on the narrow mission they see before them.
Download or read book Superfund Sediment Sites written by United States Government Accountability Office and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-10-30 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Water bodies in the United States-including rivers, lakes, and harbors-may contain contaminated sediments that pose risks to aquatic ecosystems and human health. Contaminated sediments are toxic or hazardous substances contained in soil, sand, organic matter, or other materials accumulating on the bottom of water bodies at levels that may adversely affect human health or the environment, or both. These substances include polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs,1 and metals, such as mercury, many of which persist for years or decades because they do not degrade or degrade very slowly in aquatic environments. Contaminants in sediments can directly harm aquatic organisms or accumulate in their tissues, which can then be consumed by humans or wildlife. As a result, contaminated sediments are often a contributing factor to the over 4,800 fish consumption advisories issued nationwide asof 2011.2 They can also impair the navigational and recreational uses of water bodies, according to the National Research Council.3 Congress enacted the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) in 1980, to protect human health and the environment from the effects of hazardous substances, including those in contaminated media such as groundwater, soil, or sediments.4 CERCLA established the Superfund program, which is the federal government's principal program to clean up the nation's most contaminated hazardous waste sites, and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is the agency responsible for administering the program. Two basic types of cleanups, or response actions, are conducted under the Superfund program: (1) remedial actions and (2) removal actions. Remedial actions are generally long-term cleanups-consisting of one or more remedial action projects-that aim to permanently and significantly reduce contamination and that can take a considerable amount of time and money, depending on the nature of the contamination and other site-specific factors. Removal actions are usually short-term cleanups for sites that pose immediate threats to human health or the environment. The authority for selecting response actions has been delegated from the EPA Administrator to the agency's 10 Regional Administrators.
Download or read book Common Chemicals Found at Superfund Sites written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This booklet contains one page fact sheets on the most common chemicals found at hazardous waste sites across the nation. it is meant to help you understand more about the chemical. It answers such questions as: How can a person be exposed to the chemical? How can it affect human health? How does it enter and leave the body? What levels of exposure result in harmful effects? What recommendations has the federal government made to protect human health from the chemical? and What are the methods for treatment and disposal of the chemical?
Download or read book Poisons in the Water written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
