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Article from North Dakota Environmental Consultant
Date: Google Alert March 11, 2009
The Environmental Protection Agency developed the Risk-Screening Environmental Indicators (RSEI) Model (EPA/RSEI Home Page) as a computer screening tool to analyze factors that may result in chronic human health risks. The model was also developed to facilitate priority setting, trend analysis, and ranking of regions, states, counties, industries, chemicals, and/or facilities. The model highlights situations that may lead to potential chronic human health risks. |
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Source of Elevated Levels of Mercury at Big Bear Lake Up for Debate
Press-Enterprise - Riverside,CA,USA
In 2006, the plant released about 161 pounds of mercury, according to the US EPA Toxic Release Inventory. A Mitsubishi official could not be reached Tuesday ...
Study Leads to Interesting Results About Knoxville's Water
Tennessee Journalist - Knoxville,TN,USA
According to the Environmental Working Group, in a list compiled from the Environmental Protection Agency's Toxics Release Inventory of 2004, the Tennessee ...
Why do Firms Pollute (and Reduce) Toxic Emissions? A paper that explores the factors that both explain differences across firms in their initial toxic emission levels and in the reductions beyond any legally required levels subsequent to the availability of public information on TRI.
MapEcos is a collaborative website designed to provide an evenhanded view of industrial environmental performance.
TOXNET is a resource that uses maps of the United States to show the amount and location of certain toxic chemicals released into the environment. WISER® (http://wiser.nlm.nih.gov) is a system designed to assist first responders in hazardous material incidents. Haz-Map® (http://hazmap.nlm.nih.gov) links jobs and hazardous tasks with occupational diseases and their symptoms.
TOXMAP (http://toxmap.nlm.nih.gov) is a Geographic Information System (GIS) from the Division of Specialized Information Services of the US National Library of Medicine (NLM) that uses maps of the United States to help users visually explore data from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)'s Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) and Superfund Program.
USA Today uses an EPA model to track the path of industrial pollution and mapped the location of almost 128,000 schools to determine the levels of toxic chemicals outside. Please read "Toxic Air and America's Schools" for more information.
From West Oakland's diesel-choked neighborhoods to San Francisco's traffic-snarled Mission District to the fenceline communitis abutting Richmond's refineries, poor and minority residents of the San Francisco Bay Area get more than their share of exposure to air pollution and environmental hazards.
That's the conclusion of a new report issued by the Center for Justice, Tolerance & Community (CJTC) at the University of California, Santa Cruz. The first published analysis of the overall state of environmental disparity in the nine-county region, the report is entitled, "Still Toxic After All These Years... Air Quality and Environmental Justice in the Bay Area."