In 1987 the CRJ published Toxic Wastes and Race in the United States (1987), the first comprehensive national study of the demographic patterns associated with the location of hazardous waste sites. It stressed
By the Pentagon’s own admission, much of this waste has been treated cavalierly both in the United States and abroad. A seven-year survey of 1,579 domestic bases found 14,401 sites of known and suspected contamination, including 87 that qualify for inclusion on the Superfund list of the ...
(1987). Toxic Waste and Race in the United States: A National Report on the Racial and Socio-Economic Characteristics of Communities with Hazardous Waste Sites. New York. U.S. General Accounting Office (USGAO). (1983). Siting of Hazardous Waste Landfills and Their Correlation with the ...
Workers who cleaned up a huge spill from a coal ash pond in Tennessee in 2008 are still suffering—and dying. The U.S. has 1,400 ash dumps.
(2021). Heavy metal-and organic-matter pollution due to self-heating coal-waste dumps in the Upper Silesian Coal Basin (Poland). Journal of Hazardous Materials, 412, 125244. Article CAS Google Scholar Olumayowa Oluwasola, H., Oluoye, O., Mohammad Bashir, S., Odewole, O. A., Onyeka...
There’s no single standard for statutes of limitations that exists across all states. In most, though, the clock begins to run on the date that the injury happened or on the date when you knew or reasonably should have known that your injury was caused by someone’s negligence. ...
EPA (2002) Supplemental guidance for developing soil screening levels for superfund sites. Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), United States FCO (1985) The Fertilizer Control Order 1985. The fertiliser Association of India, Shaheed Jit Singh Marg, New...
“One question I ask these companies,” says Smith, the New Orleans lawyer, “‘What have you done to go out and find all the radioactive waste you have dumped all over the United States for the past 120 years?’ And the answer is nothing.” ...
“Heavy metals” are the chemical elements which, in their standard state, have a specific gravity of more than about 5 g cm−3 i.e. their densities are five times greater than water. These constitute a very heterogeneous group of elements greatly...
the United States require authorization under a NPDES industrial storm water permit. If an industrial facility has a Standard Industrial Classification code or meets the narrative description listed in the 11 categories, the facility operator must determine if the facility is eligible for coverage under...