Understanding and Responding to Hazardous Substances at Mine Sites in the Western United States

2007-01-01

Its proximity to the Salt Lake Valley had made it popular with ATV users and
motorcyclists, creating hazards through ... On public land, problems from release
of hazardous substances commonly occur at numerous small historic mine sites ...

Author: Jerome V. DeGraff

Publisher: Geological Society of America

ISBN: 9780813741178

Category: Technology & Engineering

Page: 180

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This volume is a collection of papers resulting from a symposium held at the 2002 Annual Meeting of the Association of Environmental and Engineering Geologists in Reno, Nevada. The majority of the chapters present hydro-geochemical studies of select sites, but with the variety of localities and approaches taken, this book will more widely appeal to land and resource managers, geologists, and engineers working with abandoned mines or modern site remediation efforts.

Hazardous Substances and Human Health

2006-03-02

WATSON facilitates the coverage of exposures towards hazardous substances
released into air, (fresh) water and soil through ingestion of various food items in
a spatially-resolved panEuropean setting. 12.1 The assessment framework The ...

Author: Till M Bachmann

Publisher: Elsevier

ISBN: 0080462529

Category: Technology & Engineering

Page: 612

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There is widespread public concern about hazardous chemicals that are contained in air, soil, water and food. Policy has therefore adopted a series of laws and regulations concerning emissions into and concentration levels in different media including food. As policy makers do not only have to consider the protection of the environment but also need to ensure a well-functioning economy at the same time, these limit or target values need to be set in a balanced way. The main problem, however, is to compare the costs for achieving these targets with the benefits to society by having a smaller exposure to hazardous substances (cost-benefit analysis). This book sets out to improve the reliability of cost-benefit analyses particularly of hazardous substances present in air, water, soil and food. It suggests that the human health risk assessment of chemicals is performed in a bottom-up analysis, i.e., following a spatially resolved multimedia modelling approach. In order to support cost-benefit analyses, the approach is accompanied by monetary valuation of human health impacts, yielding so-called external costs. Results for selected priority metals show that these external costs are small compared to those by the classical air pollutants and involve rather long time horizons touching on the aspect of intergenerational equity within sustainable development. When including further hazardous substances, the total external costs attributable to contaminants are expected to be more substantial.

Hazardous Substances on Spillage

1995

A liquid with a boiling point lower than the atmospheric temperature may boil due
to convection of heat from the air . A model for this process is described in
Fleischer ?. The vaporization rate from a pool 34 HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES
ON ...

Author: David Carter

Publisher: IChemE

ISBN: 0852953526

Category: Technology & Engineering

Page: 60

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This work contains the report from a working party on Source Terms dealing with loss of containment of hazardous substances in process plants. It is part of a series of monographs published by the IChemE on toxicity, explosive overpressure, thermal radiation and ammonia toxicity.

Hazardous substances in plastics

2017-02-08

They are “A Non-Toxic Environment” and “A Good Built Environment”. The most
important precision of the Generation Goal is that by 2020 recycling is resource
efficient and as far as possible free from hazardous substances. According to two
 ...

Author: Stenmarck, Åsa

Publisher: Nordic Council of Ministers

ISBN: 9789289348492

Category:

Page: 119

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The aim of the project is to create knowledge on how plastics recycling can increase without increasing the risk of emitting hazardous substances to the environment.The first general conclusion is that to be able to increase recycling there are measures needed at different levels. The following areas are of interest: • Legislation: new legislation is not necessary, but harmonisation and clear guidance to the existing one is. • Market: to create a market safety on content is needed. • If substances added are less hazardous the recycled raw material would be “more safe” to use. • There should be higher attention put on the knowledge of the recyclers. • Traceability and content: Further work on labelling reaching the recycle part of the value chain needs to be developed. It is also needed to develop a systematic approach towards risk assessments linked to recycling.
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Hazardous Substances in Our Environment

1990

EPA's responsibilities for regulating hazardous substances cover both human
health and the environment . This guidebook concerns only the human health
risks from exposure to hazardous substances . Other EPA publications are
available ...

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Publisher:

ISBN: UCR:31210009927474

Category: Hazardous wastes

Page: 125

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Methodology Hazardous Substances in Waste

2000

Methodology for Identifying Products with Hazardous Substances that Cause
Problems in Waste Handling. proved to ensure effectiveness , despite the fact
that the system in reality is very inconvenient ) . The issue of convenience may be
 ...

Author:

Publisher: Nordic Council of Ministers

ISBN: 9289305274

Category: Hazardous wastes

Page: 83

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Movement of Hazardous Substances in Soil

1979

2 . EPA - 600 / 9-79-024b 4. TITLE AND SUBTITLE 5. REPORT DATE August
1979 ( Issuing Date ) 6. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION CODE MOVEMENT OF
HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES IN SOIL : A BIBLIOGRAPHY Volume 2 . Pesticides
7.

Author: Emily D. Copenhaver

Publisher:

ISBN: MINN:31951D00623318R

Category: Hazardous substances

Page:

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The Management of Hazardous Substances in the Environment

2003-09-02

ENVIROTECH VIENNA 1989—Kongreßberichte/Proceedings SESSION 1:
BEURTEILUNG UMWELTGEFÄHRDENDER STOFFE UND PRODUKTE
SESSION 1: EVALUATION OF HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES AND PRODUCTS (
erhäitlich ...

Author: K.L. Zirm

Publisher: CRC Press

ISBN: 9780203215715

Category: Science

Page: 215

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Selected papers presented at Envirotech Vienna 1989, First International ISEP Congress, Vienna, Austria, on 20-22 February 1989.

Hazardous Substances and Classification of the Environmental Conditions in the Baltic Sea and the Kattegat

2008-06-30

... top predators have declined (HELCOM, 2002). However, this does not
necessarily imply that only insignificant levels of these substances occur locally
in coastal waters today, or that other hazardous substances may not occur in
levels which ...

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Publisher: Nordic Council of Ministers

ISBN: 9789289316941

Category: Business & Economics

Page: 71

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A Comprehensive Guide to the Hazardous Properties of Chemical Substances

2007-05-25

Certain physical properties of a substance determine its hazard and the risk of
human exposure. For example, solubility ... Many hazardous substances such as
hydrogen sulfide or ammonia can be readily identified from their odor. Some of
the ...

Author: Pradyot Patnaik

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

ISBN: 9780471714583

Category: Medical

Page: 1059

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Correlating chemical structure with toxicity to humans and the environment, and the chemical structure of compounds to their hazardous properties, this book allows users to assess the toxicity of a substance even when no experimental data exists. Thus, it bridges the gap between hazardous materials and chemistry. Extensively updated and expanded.

Region 5 Hazardous Waste and Toxic Substances

1985

Editor's Note: This article was adapted from an October. 1984, EPA Journal
article by Donald White and Bob Burke entitled "Choices in the Disposal of
Hazardous Waste. " EPA's regulations under the Resource Conservation and
Recovery Act ...

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Publisher:

ISBN: MINN:31951P00973763F

Category: Hazardous substances

Page: 24

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