Tracking Toxic Substances At Industrial Facilities

Author : National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Commission on Life Sciences,Committee to Evaluate Mass Balance Information for Facilities Handling Toxic Substances
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1990-02-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780309040860

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Tracking Toxic Substances at Industrial Facilities by National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Commission on Life Sciences,Committee to Evaluate Mass Balance Information for Facilities Handling Toxic Substances Pdf

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.

Author : National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Board on Army Science and Technology,Committee on Review and Evaluation of the Army Chemical Stockpile Disposal Program
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309183345

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Occupational Health and Workplace Monitoring at Chemical Agent Disposal Facilities by National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Board on Army Science and Technology,Committee on Review and Evaluation of the Army Chemical Stockpile Disposal Program Pdf

In keeping with a congressional mandate (Public Law 104-484) and the Chemical Weapons Convention, the United States is currently destroying its chemical weapons stockpile. The Army must ensure that the chemical demilitarization workforce is protected from the risks of exposure to hazardous chemicals during disposal operations and during and after facility closure. Good industrial practices developed in the chemical and nuclear energy industries and other operations that involve the processing of hazardous materials include workplace monitoring of hazardous species and a systematic occupational health program for monitoring workers' activities and health. In this report, the National Research Council Committee on Review and Evaluation of the Army Chemical Stockpile Disposal Program examines the methods and systems used at JACADS and TOCDF, the two operational facilities, to monitor the concentrations of airborne and condensed-phase chemical agents, agent breakdown products, and other substances of concern. The committee also reviews the occupational health programs at these sites, including their industrial hygiene and occupational medicine components. Finally, it evaluates the nature, quality, and utility of records of workplace chemical monitoring and occupational health programs.

Author : National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Commission on Life Sciences,Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology,Committee on National Monitoring of Human Tissues
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1991-02-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309044370

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Monitoring Human Tissues for Toxic Substances by National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Commission on Life Sciences,Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology,Committee on National Monitoring of Human Tissues Pdf

The National Human Monitoring Program (NHMP) identifies concentrations of specific chemicals in human tissues, including toxicologic testing and risk assessment determinations. This volume evaluates the current activities of the NHMP; identifies important scientific, technical, and programmatic issues; and makes recommendations regarding the design of the program and use of its products.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Chemicals
ISBN : UCR:31210023933300

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The Toxic Substances Control Act by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mary Devine Worobec,Girard Lanterman Ordway
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:39015018339302

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Toxic Substances Controls Guide by Mary Devine Worobec,Girard Lanterman Ordway Pdf

Author : National Research Council,Commission on Life Sciences,Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology,Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems,Division of Military Science and Technology,Strategies to Protect the Health of Deployed U.S. Forces: Technology and Methods for Detection and Tracking of Exposures to a Subset of Harmful Agents
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2000-04-21
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309068758

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Strategies to Protect the Health of Deployed U.S. Forces by National Research Council,Commission on Life Sciences,Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology,Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems,Division of Military Science and Technology,Strategies to Protect the Health of Deployed U.S. Forces: Technology and Methods for Detection and Tracking of Exposures to a Subset of Harmful Agents Pdf

Since Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm, Gulf War veterans have expressed concerns about health effects that could be associated with their deployment and service during the war. Although similar concerns were raised after other military operations, the Gulf War deployment focused national attention on the potential, but uncertain, relationship between the presence of chemical and biological (CB) agents and other harmful agents in theater and health symptoms reported by military personnel. Strategies to Protect the Health of Deployed U.S. Forces which is one of the four two-year studies, examines the detection and tracking of exposures of deployed personnel to multiple harmful agents.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Transportation and Hazardous Materials
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1110 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Law
ISBN : UCR:31210012240691

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Solid Waste Disposal Act Reauthorization by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Transportation and Hazardous Materials Pdf

Author : Nicholas Askounes Ashford,Charles C. Caldart
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 1125 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Environmental law
ISBN : 9780262012386

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Environmental Law, Policy, and Economics by Nicholas Askounes Ashford,Charles C. Caldart Pdf

The past twenty-five years have seen a significant evolution in environmental policy, with new environmental legislation and substantive amendments to earlier laws, significant advances in environmental science, and changes in the treatment of science (and scientific uncertainty) by the courts. This book offers a detailed discussion of the important issues in environmental law, policy, and economics, tracing their development over the past few decades through an examination of environmental law cases and commentaries by leading scholars. The authors focus on pollution, addressing both pollution control and prevention, but also emphasize the evaluation, design, and use of the law to stimulate technical change and industrial transformation, arguing that there is a need to address broader issues of sustainable development. Environmental Law, Policy, and Economics,which grew out of courses taught by the authors at MIT, treats the traditional topics covered in most classes in environmental law and policy, including common law and administrative law concepts and the primary federal legislation. But it goes beyond these to address topics not often found in a single volume: the information-based obligations of industry, enforcement of environmental law, market-based and voluntary alternatives to traditional regulation, risk assessment, environmental economics, and technological innovation and diffusion. Countering arguments found in other texts that government should play a reduced role in environmental protection, this book argues that clear, stringent legal requirements--coupled with flexible means for meeting them--and meaningful stakeholder participation are necessary for bringing about environmental improvements and technologicial transformations.

Author : Philip Wexler
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 953 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780127447704

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Information Resources in Toxicology by Philip Wexler Pdf

History: -- K.D. Watson, P. Wexler, and J. Everitt. -- Highlights in the History of Toxicology. -- Selected References in the History of Toxicology. -- A Historical Perspective of Toxicology Information Systems. -- Books and Special Documents: -- G.L. Kennedy, Jr., P. Wexler, N.S. Selzer, and L.A. Malley. -- General Texts. -- Analytical Toxicology. -- Animals in Research. -- Biomonitoring/Biomarkers. -- Biotechnology. -- Biotoxins. -- Cancer. -- Chemical Compendia. -- Chemical--Cosmetics and Other Consumer. -- Products. -- Chemical--Drugs. -- Chemical--Dust and Fibers. -- Chemical--Metals. -- Chemicals--Pesticides -- Chemicals--Solvents. -- Chemical--Selected Chemicals. -- Clinical Toxicology. -- Developmental and Reproductive Toxicology. -- Environmental Toxicology--General. -- Environmental Toxicology-- Aquatic. -- Environmental Toxicology--Atmospheric. -- Environmental Toxicology--Hazardous Waste. -- Environmental Toxicology--Terrestrial. -- Environmental Toxicology--Wildlife. -- Ep ...

Author : DIANE Publishing Company
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1995-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780788120909

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Managing Industrial Solid Wastes from Manufacturing, Mining, Oil and Gas Production and Utility Coal Combustion by DIANE Publishing Company Pdf

Examines wastes generated by industrial activities that play a dominant role in our national economy -- oil and gas production, mining and mineral processing, coal combustion, and manufacturing. Photos, tables and figures.

Author : National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Commission on Geosciences, Environment and Resources,Committee on Remedial Action Priorities for Hazardous Waste Sites
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1994-02-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309050920

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Ranking Hazardous-Waste Sites for Remedial Action by National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Commission on Geosciences, Environment and Resources,Committee on Remedial Action Priorities for Hazardous Waste Sites Pdf

The United States may not be able to make all hazardous-waste sites as clean as possible. Therefore, priorities must be set for the timing of waste site remediations. This book assesses several of the government's methods of ranking sites for remediation and compares the performance of three such models using input data developed from the same set of waste sites. Because inconsistent methods may be neither effective nor prudent, the book recommends that the government consider developing a unified national approach to setting priorities to replace the current multiple approaches.

Author : United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Emergency and Remedial Response
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Hazardous waste site remediation
ISBN : STANFORD:36105216466495

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Catalog of Superfund Program Information Products by United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Emergency and Remedial Response Pdf

Author : Mary Graham
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2002-08-26
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780815732334

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Democracy by Disclosure by Mary Graham Pdf

In December 1999, the Institute of Medicine shocked the nation by reporting that as many as 98,000 Americans died each year from mistakes in hospitals--twice the number killed in auto accidents. Instead of strict rules and harsh penalties to reduce those risks, the Institute called for a system of standardized disclosure of medical errors. If it worked, it would create economic and political pressures for hospitals to improve their practices. Since the mid-1980s, Congress and state legislatures have approved scores of new disclosure laws to fight racial discrimination, reduce corruption, and improve services. The most ambitious systems aim to reduce risks in everyday life--risks from toxic pollution, contaminants in drinking water, nutrients in packaged foods, lead paint, workplace hazards, and SUV rollovers. Unlike traditional government warnings, they require corporations and other organizations to produce standardized factual information at regular intervals about risks they create. Legislated transparency has become a mainstream instrument of social policy. Mary Graham argues that these requirements represent a remarkable policy innovation. Enhanced by computers and the Internet, they are creating a new techno-populism--an optimistic conviction that information itself can improve the lives of ordinary citizens and encourage hospitals, manufacturers, food processors, banks, airlines, and other organizations to further public priorities. Drawing on detailed profiles of disclosure systems for toxic releases, nutritional labeling, and medical errors, Graham explains why the move toward greater transparency has flourished during a time of regulatory retrenchment and why corporations have often supported these massive raids on proprietary information. However, Democracy by Disclosure, sounds a cautionary note. Just as systems of financial disclosure have come under new scrutiny in the wake of Enron's collapse, systems of social disclosure deserve car

Author : National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology,Commission on Life Sciences,Committee on Toxicology
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1997-05-09
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780309057363

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Toxicity of Military Smokes and Obscurants by National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology,Commission on Life Sciences,Committee on Toxicology Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Office of Technology Assessment
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UCR:31210024829424

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Managing Industrial Solid Wastes from Manufacturing, Mining, Oil and Gas Production, and Utility Coal Combustion by Anonim Pdf