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"The assessment, remediation, and redevelopment of manufactured gas plant (MGP) sites pose a significant technical and financial challenge to successor property owners, including municipalities and other public entities undertaking brownfields revitalization, and to their consul…
Mohawk midwife Katsi Cook lives in Akwesasne, an indigenous community in upstate New York that is downwind and downstream from three Superfund sites. For years she witnessed elevated rates of miscarriages, birth defects, and cancer in her town, ultimately drawing connections bet…
"In the summer of 1978, residents of Love Canal, a suburban development in Niagara Falls, NY, began protesting against the leaking toxic waste dump in their midst--a sixteen-acre site containing 100,000 barrels of chemical waste that anchored their neighborhood. The Love Canal p…
"Engineers will find the QSAR models extremely useful in selecting treatment processes. Researchers and scientists will find state-of-the-art research trends in Advanced Oxidation Processes (AOPs). Graduate students will learn how fundamental sciences can guide the search for in…
In this work the author presents New Mexico as a microcosm of global ecological degradation. He states that the New Mexico environment is endangered by military, corporate, and urban polluters and consumers as hazerdous waste, munitions testing, radioactive emissions, and other …
Despite numerous small success stories, the big picture of America's toxics programs is one of overall failure. Superfund has failed to clean up America's worst dump sites; policies to regulate generation of new hazardous waste have foundered; standards have been set for only ei…
Despite numerous small success stories, the big picture of America's toxics programs is one of overall failure. Superfund has failed to clean up America's worst dump sites; policies to regulate generation of new hazardous waste have foundered; standards have been set for only ei…
