DOCSLIB.ORG

Acknowledgments

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Acknowledgments Acknowledgments World Resources 2002–2004 is the result of a unique partner- Fundación RIDES, Chile ship between the United Nations Environment Programme Fundación Terram, Chile (UNEP), the United Nations Development Programme Indonesian Center for Environmental Law (ICEL) (UNDP), The World Bank, and the World Resources Institute King Prajadhipok’s Institute (KPI), Thailand (WRI). It is the only instance where UN agencies, a multilat- NGO-Coordinating Committee on Development (NGO-COD), eral financial institution, and an NGO work together to deter- Thailand mine the content, conclusions, and recommendations of a Ohio Citizen Action, USA major environmental report. Presencia Ciudadana, Mexico Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition (SVTC), USA INSTITUTIONS Society for Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA), India For our tenth edition in the World Resources series, the World Sustainable Development Institute, Hungary Resources staff gives special thanks to the Metanoia Fund, Thailand Environment Institute the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Swedish Uganda Wildlife Society International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA), and World Resources Institute, USA the Earth Charter Initiative for their generous support. The Ford Motor Company, The David and Lucile Packard Founda- INDIVIDUALS tion, SIDA, UNDP, UNEP, the V. Kann Rasmussen Founda- Many individuals contributed to the development of this tion, The World Bank, and WRI also provided additional sup- report by providing expert advice, data, or careful review of port for EarthTrends, the companion website to the World manuscripts. While final responsibility for the contents rests Resources series, which offers environmental data, indica- with the World Resources staff, the report reflects valuable tors, and information on-line. contributions from all of the following individuals and organi- zations. In particular, special thanks go to Mirjam Schomaker We are particularly grateful to the Access Initiative, a global (consultant) of UNEP, Kirk Hamilton of the World Bank, and coalition of civil society groups. In 2000, the Access Initiative Jake Werksman of UNDP, who coordinated the input of many partners set out to measure the public’s ability to participate experts throughout their organizations including: in decisions about the environment. Their findings became a key part of this report. UNEP Adnan Amin, Meryem Amar-Samnotra, Charles Arden- THE ACCESS INITIATIVE PARTNERS Clarke, Marion Cheatle, Munyaradzi Chenje, Dan Claasen, Advocates Coalition for Development and Environment Gerry Cunningham, Arthur Dahl, Volodymyr Demkine, Hal- (ACODE), Uganda ifa Drammeh, Eric Falt, Hiremagalur Gopalan, Tessa Gov- Agricultural Cooperative Development International (ACDI), erse, Michael Graber, Sherry Heileman, John Hilborn, Anja Uganda Jaenz, Cornis Lugt, Timo Maukonen, Elizabeth Migongo- Austral Center for Environmental Law, Chile Bake, Patrick M’mayi, Masa Nagai, Werner Obermeyer, Neil Centro de Investigación y Planificación del Medio Ambiente Pratt, Naomi Poulton, Daniel Puig, Anisur Rahman, Denis (CIPMA), Chile Ruysschaert, Nelson Sabogal, Vijay Samnotra, Megumi Seki, Centro Mexicano de Derechos Ambientales (CEMDA), Mexico Rajendra Shende, David Smith, Eric Usher, Isabelle Vander- Comunicación y Educación Ambiental, Mexico beck, Marceil Yeater Corporación PARTICIPA, Chile Cultural Ecológica, Mexico UNDP Ecological Institute for Sustainable Development (Miskolc), Ali Farzin, Sergio Feld, Linda Ghanime, Pascal Girot, Hos- Hungary sein Jafari Giv, Peter Hazlewood, John Hough, Selim Jahan, Environmental Justice Networking Forum (EJNF), South Mehdi Kamyab, Arun Kashyap, Charles McNeill, Joseph Africa Opio Odongo, Usha Rao, Nadine Smith Environmental Law and Management Clinic of Technikon Pretoria, South Africa THE WORLD BANK Environmental Law Institute (ELI), USA Kristalina Georgieva, Magda Lovei, Saeed Ordoubadi, Environmental Management and Law Association (EMLA), Stefano Pagiola, Gunars Platais Hungary Environmental Partnership for Central Europe (ÖKOTÁRS), Special thanks go to Allen Hammond who graciously stepped in Hungary as acting Editor-in-Chief to guide the Report to final publication. 284 W ORLD RESOURCES 2002–2004 World Resources staff also gratefully acknowledges the guid- national), Jesse Ribot (WRI), Frances Seymour (WRI), ance of Anthony Janetos (WRI) in project planning and Dan Barbara Wyckoff-Baird (Aspen Institute) Tunstall (WRI) in overseeing the review process. CHAPTER 6 DRIVING BUSINESS ACCOUNTABILITY Contributors and reviewers: Shakeb Afsah (International PART I Resources Group), Rick Bunch (WRI), Cary Coglianese (Har- vard University), Julie Gorte (Calvert Group), Chris Herlug- son (BP-Amoco), Jacky Higgins (HSBC), David Hillyard CHAPTER 1 ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE: WHOSE VOICE? (Earthwatch), Fran Irwin (WRI), William Kramer (WRI), WHOSE CHOICE? Steve Lippman (Trillium Asset Management), Nick Maybury Contributors and reviewers: Nikolai Denisov (UNEP/GRID- (HSBC), Elena Petkova (WRI), Janet Ranganathan (WRI), Arendal), Sofie Flensborg (UN Economic Commission for Don Reed (Ecos Corporation), David Wheeler (World Bank) Europe), Allen Hammond (WRI), Norbert Henninger (WRI), Somrudee Nicro (Thailand Environment Institute), CHAPTER 7 INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE Gustavo Alanis Ortega (Centro Mexicano de Derecho Ambi- Contributors and reviewers: Linda Shaffer Bollert (WRI), ental), Elena Petkova (WRI), Jesse Ribot (WRI), Alejandra Duncan Brack (RIIA), Anne Marie DeRose (WRI), Charles Di Serrano P. (Centro Mexicano de Derecho Ambiental), Leva (World Bank), Navroz Dubash (WRI), Lindsey Fransen Frances Seymour (WRI), Peter Veit (WRI), Jeremy Wates (WRI), Mairi Dupar Gore (WRI), Allen Hammond (WRI), (UN Economic Commission for Europe) Fredrich Karhl (WRI), Tony La Viña (WRI), Crescie Maurer (WRI), Frances Seymour (WRI) CHAPTER 2 ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE TODAY Contributors and reviewers: Frank Ahern (Terrevista Earth CHAPTER 8 A WORLD OF DECISIONS: CASE STUDIES Imaging), Linda Shaffer Bollert (WRI), Carl Bruch (Environ- Contributors and reviewers: Bharti Bhavsar (SEWA), Melissa mental Law Institute), Dirk Bryant (WRI), Andrew Buchman Boness (WRI), George Branch (University of Cape Town), (WRI), Jean-Gael Collomb (WRI), Gayle Coolidge (WRI), Mauricio Castro (Secretaría General del Sistema de la Inte- Hamid R. Davoodi (IMF), Linda Delgado (WRI), Katie Fro- gracíon Centroamericana), Angela Cassar (Environmental hardt (African Wildlife Foundation), Allen Hammond Law Institute), Elsa Chang (Advocacy Institute), Rick (WRI), Massimo Mastruzzi (World Bank Institute), Emily Clugston (Center for Respect of Life and Environment, and Matthews (WRI), Crescie Maurer (WRI), Erin McAlister Earth Charter), Malcolm Douglas, Geoff Evans (Mineral Pol- (WRI), Becky Milton (WRI), Susan Minnemeyer (WRI), Judy icy Institute), Ali Farzin (UNDP), Polly Ghazi, Gwendolyn Oglethorpe (WWF-US), Elena Petkova (WRI), Jesse Ribot Hallsmith, Graeme Hancock (Department of Mining, PNG), (WRI), James Shambaugh, Frances Seymour (WRI), Peter Ben Hardwick (Slater & Gordon Lawyers), Jean Harris Veit (WRI) (Ezemvelo KwaZulu-Natal Wildlife), Maria Hauck (Univer- sity of Cape Town), Aditi Kapoor (Alternative Futures), Stu- CHAPTER 3 PUBLIC PARTICIPATION AND ACCESS art Kirsch (University of Michigan), Harvey Locke, Emily Contributors and reviewers: The Access Initiative, Tom Matthews (WRI), Kenton Miller (WRI), Marta Miranda Beierle (Resources for the Future), John Coyle (WRI), (WRI), Mohit Mukherjee (Earth Charter International Secre- Gretchen Hoff (WRI), Bill LaRocque (WRI), Elena Petkova tariat), Reema Nanavaty (SEWA), Steven C. Rockefeller (WRI), Lina Maria Ibarra Ruiz (WRI) (Middlebury College), Phil Shearman, John E. Strongman (The World Bank), Asghar Tahmasebi, Anil Prabhakar Tam- CHAPTER 4 AWAKENING CIVIL SOCIETY bay (BAIF Development Research Foundation), Patricia Contributors and reviewers: Richard Andrews (University of Townsend, Peter Veit (WRI), Mirian Vilela (Earth Charter North Carolina), L. David Brown (Harvard University), Secretariat), Peter Wilshusen (Bucknell University of Grant Curtis (ADB), Robert Dobias (ADB), Alan Fowler Pennslyvania), David Wissink (OK Tedi Mining Limited) (INTRAC), Marlies Glasius (Global Civil Society 2001), William Moody (Rockefeller Brothers Foundation), Tomas CHAPTER 9 TOWARD A BETTER BALANCE R˚uˇziˇcka (EPCE), Tamás Scsaurszki (C.S. Mott Foundation), Contributors and reviewers: Navroz Dubash (WRI), Mairi Robert Sinclair (consultant) Dupar Gore (WRI), Gretchen Hoff (WRI), Tony La Viña (WRI), Allen Hammond (WRI), Elena Petkova (WRI), Jesse CHAPTER 5 DECENTRALIZATION: A LOCAL VOICE Ribot (WRI), Frances Seymour (WRI) Contributors and reviewers: Jon Anderson (USAID), Krister Par Andersson (Indiana University), Richard Andrews (Uni- versity of North Carolina), Nate Badenoch (WRI), Navroz Dubash (WRI), Mairi Dupar Gore (WRI), Fredrich Kahrl (WRI), Anne M. Larson (CIFOR), Jamie Pittock (WWF Inter- 285 Acknowledgments PART II Forests, Grasslands, and Drylands Reviewers and contributors: Nigel Dudley (Equilibrium), Peter Gilruth (Raytheon), Suzie Greenhalgh (WRI), Peter DATA TABLES Holmgren (FAO), Alexander Korotkov (UNECE), Emily Institutions and Governance Matthews (WRI) Reviewers and contributors: David Banisar (Privacy Interna- tional), Maryam Niamir-Fuller (UNDP), Norbert Henninger Freshwater Resources (WRI), Frances Irwin (WRI), Tundu Lissu (WRI), Crescen- Reviewers and contributors: Lauretta Burke (WRI), Åse Elias- cia Maurer (WRI), Elena Petkova (WRI), Frances
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Air Quality Profile of Curtis Bay, Brooklyn and Hawkins Point, Maryland
    Air Quality Profile Of Curtis Bay, Brooklyn and Hawkins Point, Maryland © 2011, Curtis W. Wright, All Rights Reserved March 2012 Revised June 2012 About the Environmental Integrity Project The Environmental Integrity Project (EIP) is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to the enforcement of the nation’s anti-pollution laws and to the prevention of political interference with those laws. EIP provides objective analysis of how the failure to enforce or implement environmental laws increases pollution and harms public health. We also help local communities obtain the protection of environmental laws. Acknowledgement Environmental Integrity Project Research Analyst Robbie Orvis and Attorneys Abel Russ and Leah Kelly contributed to this report. Data Limitations EIP’s analysis of toxic emissions and potential health impacts is based on publicly available data retrieved and analyzed from EPA, state agencies and private companies. Occasionally, government data may contain errors, either because information is inaccurately reported by the regulated entities or incorrectly transcribed by government agencies. In addition, this report is based on data retrieved between August 2011 and February 2012, and subsequent data retrievals may differ slightly as some companies and agencies correct prior reports. EIP is committed to ensuring that the data we present are as accurate as possible. We will correct any errors that are verifiable. June 2012 Revision EIP revised this report in June of 2012 in order to exclude fine particulate matter (PM2.5) data recorded at the FMC Fairfield monitor in Curtis Bay during the year 2008. We did this because we were informed by the Maryland Department of the Environment that this monitor was removed in August of 2008, meaning that the average PM2.5 concentration for that year did not take into account the fall months, during which PM2.5 concentrations tend to be lower than in the summer.
    [Show full text]
  • Application of the Toxics Release Inventory to Nanomaterials
    Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies FEBRUARY 2008 PROJECT ON EMERGING NANOTECHNOLOGIES RESEARCH BRIEF Application of the Toxics Release PEN BRIEF No. 2 Inventory to Nanomaterials by Linda K. Breggin and Read D. Porter Background This research brief examines whether the legal authorities that establish the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) in the Emergency Planning and Community-Right- to-Know Act (EPCRA)1 could be applied to nanomaterials. Although several organizations have published analyses of whether specifi c environmental laws could be used to regulate nanomaterials,2 none of these reviews has examined EPCRA or TRI in any detail. Examination of the principal federal right-to-know law seems opportune for several reasons. First, the only law that specifi cally addresses environmental, health, and safety of nanomaterials, enacted in 2006 by the City of Berkeley, California, takes a “right-to-know” approach that requires facilities that manufacture or use “manufactured nanoparticles” to disclose both the known toxicology of those materials and the facility’s plan for material handling, monitoring, containment, disposal, inventory tracking, release prevention, and mitigation. The City’s reporting guidance document expands on the ordinance by requiring disclosure of inhalation, dermal, oral, geno-, and reproductive toxicity information, as expressed through published research.3 The City of Cambridge, Massachusetts is currently considering Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies the adoption of a similar ordinance.4 is supported by Second, several
    [Show full text]
  • 2018 Toxics Release Inventory National Analysis
    TRI National Analysis 2018 www.epa.gov/trinationalanalysis/ February 2020 Introduction to the 2018 TRI National Analysis Industries and businesses in the United States (U.S.) use chemicals to make the products we depend on, such as pharmaceuticals, computers, paints, clothing, and automobiles. While the majority of chemicals included on the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) chemical list are managed by industrial facilities in ways that minimize releases into the environment, releases still occur as part of their normal business operations. It is your right to know what TRI chemicals are being used in your community, and how they are managed TRI Reporting including how much is released into the environment, and Under the Emergency Planning whether such quantities are increasing or decreasing over and Community Right-to-Know time. Act (EPCRA) and the Pollution Prevention Act (PPA), facilities The TRI tracks the annual management of certain chemicals must report details about their based on the information reported to EPA by facilities in U.S. pollution prevention and waste industry sectors such as manufacturing, metal mining, management activities, including releases, of TRI-listed electric utilities, and hazardous waste management. The data chemicals for the prior calendar reported to TRI are compiled in a publicly available database year to EPA by July 1 of each maintained by EPA. For calendar year 2018, more than year. 21,000 facilities submitted TRI data to EPA. Each year, EPA prepares and publishes the TRI National Analysis. In support of EPA’s mission to protect human health and the environment, the TRI National Analysis summarizes recently submitted TRI data, explores data trends, and interprets the findings.
    [Show full text]
  • Improving Environmental Performance Assessment a Comparative Analysis of Weighting Methods Used to Evaluate Chemical Release Inventories
    Join an e-mail alert list and receive the latest JIE table of contents and news, visit: http://mitpress.mit.edu/jie/e-mail To subscribe to JIE, visit: http://mitpress.mit.edu/jie_subscribe This article is provided courtesy of The MIT Press. RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS Improving Environmental Performance Assessment A Comparative Analysis of Weighting Methods Used to Evaluate Chemical Release Inventories Michael W. Toffel and Julian D. Marshall Keywords Summary emissions environmental health Managers, management scholars, regulators, nonprofit orga- environmental management nizations, and the media are increasingly using emissions in- indicators ventory data to measure organizations’ environmental perfor- metrics mance. Whereas some analysts use total mass emitted, others toxic release inventory (TRI) have applied one or more of the growing number of toxicity- weighting databases aimed at predicting the environmental and health impacts of emissions. Little research is available to guide analysts in selecting among these databases. This article compares 13 methods in terms of their sophistication, com- plexity, and comprehensiveness. Seven of these methods are then evaluated as to their usefulness in weighting emissions data from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (U.S. EPA’s) toxic release inventory, and three pair-wise compari- sons are conducted. We recommend the U.S. EPA’s Risk Screening Environmental Indicators for estimating impacts to human health. We recommend the Tool for the Reduction and Assessment of Chemical Impacts for estimating impacts to human health and the environment. Address correspondence to: Michael W. Toffel Haas School of Business University of California 545 Student Services Building #1900 Berkeley, CA 94720 USA ͗[email protected]͘ ᭧ 2004 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Yale University Volume 8, Number 1–2 http://mitpress.mit.edu/jie Journal of Industrial Ecology 143 RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS Introduction ground injection when their amounts exceed a minimum reporting threshold (U.S.
    [Show full text]
  • FY 2021 EPA Budget in Brief
    FY 2021 EPA Budget in Brief United States Environmental Protection Agency www.epa.gov United States Environmental Protection Agency Office of the Chief Financial Officer (2710A) Publication Number: EPA-190-S-20-002 February 2020 www.epa.gov Printed with vegetable-oil-based inks and is 100-percent postconsumer recycled material, chlorine-free-processed and recyclable. Cover Photo: Joseph Eugene Bailey – Blackwater Falls State Park, West Virginia Budget in Brief Table of Contents PAGE Forward.......................................................................................................................................................1 Overview .....................................................................................................................................................3 Summary Resource Charts EPA’s Budget by Goal............................................................................................................................15 EPA’s Budget by Appropriation ............................................................................................................17 EPA’s Resource History ........................................................................................................................19 EPA’s Resources by Major Category.....................................................................................................21 Goal Overviews Goal 1: A Cleaner, Healthier Environment...........................................................................................23 Goal 2:
    [Show full text]
  • Environmental Protection in the Information Age
    ARTICLES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION IN THE INFORMATION AGE DANIEL C. ESTy* Information gaps and uncertaintieslie at the heart of many persistentpollution and natural resource management problems. This article develops a taxonomy of these gaps and argues that the emerging technologies of the Information Age will create new gap-filling options and thus expand the range of environmental protection strategies. Remote sensing technologies, modern telecommunications systems, the Internet, and computers all promise to make it much easier to identify harms, track pollution flows and resource consumption, and measure the resulting impacts. These developments will make possible a new structure of institutionalresponses to environmental problems including a more robust market in environmental prop- erty rights, expanded use of economic incentives and market-based regulatorystrat- egies, improved command-and-control regulation, and redefined social norms of environmental stewardship. Likewise, the degree to which policies are designed to promote information generation will determine whether and how quickly new insti- tutional approaches emerge. While some potential downsides to Information Age environmental protection remain, the promise of a more refined, individually tai- lored, and precise approach to pollution control and natural resourcemanagement looks to be significant. INTRODUCTION ................................................. 117 I. DEFINING THE ROLE OF INFORMATION IN THE ENVIRONMENTAL REALM ............................... 121 A. Information
    [Show full text]
  • Green Energy to Sustainability: Strategies for Global Industries, First Edition
    k 111 6 The Environmental Impact of Pollution Prevention and Other Sustainable Development Strategies Implemented by the Automotive Manufacturing Industry Sandra D. Gaona1, Cheryl Keenan2, Cyril Vallet3, Lawrence Reichle3 and Stephen C. DeVito1 1Toxics Release Inventory Program (mail code 7410M), United States Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, 20460, USA 2Eastern Research Group Inc., Lexington, MA, 02421, USA 3Abt Associates Inc., Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA CHAPTER MENU Introduction, 111 Overview of the Automotive Manufacturing Industry, 112 Chemicals and Chemical Waste in Automotive Manufacturing, 114 Pollution Prevention in Automotive Manufacturing, 121 Perspectives, 131 k Disclaimer, 134 k References, 134 6.1 Introduction This chapter characterizes chemical release and other waste management quantities as well as pollution prevention activities carried out by the US automotive manufacturing industry over the 2005–2015 time-frame.1 Analysis of information available from federal databases such as the US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) and industry reports reveals the corresponding environmental impacts, and identifies opportunities for continued progress. Throughout this chapter several terms are used that may not be familiar to the reader. These terms are defined below. A ‘TRI chemical’ is a chemical that is included on the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) list of chemicals, as established under Section 313(d)(2) of the Emergency Planning and Com- munity Right-to-Know Act. Chemicals
    [Show full text]
  • Corporate Codes of Conduct: Is Common Environmental Content Feasible?
    Corporate Codes of Conduct: Is Common Environmental Content Feasible? Carolyn Fischer, Ian Parry, Francisco Aguilar, and Puja Jawahar, Conducted for the Foreign Investment Advisory Service of the World Bank Group March 2005 • Discussion Paper 05–09 Resources for the Future 1616 P Street, NW Washington, D.C. 20036 Telephone: 202–328–5000 Fax: 202–939–3460 Internet: http://www.rff.org © 2005 Resources for the Future. All rights reserved. No portion of this paper may be reproduced without permission of the authors. Discussion papers are research materials circulated by their authors for purposes of information and discussion. They have not necessarily undergone formal peer review or editorial treatment. Corporate Codes of Conduct: Is Common Environmental Content Feasible? Carolyn Fischer, Ian Parry, Francisco Aguilar, and Puja Jawahar for the Foreign Investment Advisory Service of the World Bank Group Abstract In a developing country context, a policy to promote adoption of common environmental content for corporate codes of conduct (COCs) aspires to meaningful results on two fronts. First, adherence to COC provisions should offer economic benefits that exceed the costs of compliance; i.e., companies must receive a price premium, market expansion, efficiency gains, subsidized technical assistance, or some combination of these benefits in return for meeting the requirements. Second, compliance should produce significant improvements in environmental outcomes; i.e., the code must impose real requirements, and monitoring and enforcement must offer sufficient incentives to prevent evasion. With those goals in mind, we explore options for establishing common environmental content in voluntary COCs. Because the benefits of a COC rest on its ability to signal information, we ground our analysis in a review of experiences with a broad range of voluntary (and involuntary) information-based programs: not only existing corporate COCs, but also the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) family of standards, ecolabels, and information disclosure programs.
    [Show full text]
  • ENGLISH-DETOXING-CARPET-PATHWAYS-TO- 98 United States Environmental Protection Agency (2017) Learn About the Toxics Release In- WARDS-SAFE-AND-RECYCLABLE-CARPET.Pdf
    Testing carpet for toxics CONTENTS About this research 4 Executive summary 6 1. Introduction 12 2. Methodology 14 3. Key results 20 4. Conclusions and recommendations 48 Appendix: Common carpet certifications and key regulation 52 References 55 www.changingmarkets.org www.ecocenter.org www.no-burn.org This report was researched and written by the Changing Markets Foundation in collaboration with inde- pendent researchers and academics. The purpose of this report is to shed light on industry-specific issues related to carpet manufacturing and recycling in the United States. The information in this document has been obtained from sources believed reliable and in good faith. The authors accept no liability whatsoever for any direct or consequential loss arising from the use of this document of its contents. Published in December 2018 Designed by Nona Schmidt and Daniel Urria Printed on recycled paper Testing carpet for toxics –– Jeff Gearhart, Research Director, has worked for over 20 years on air quality, pollution preven- tion, life-cycle assessment, green chemistry, and consumer product testing. He is the author or co-author of 15 studies on toxic chemicals in products. He holds a Master of Science in Environ- mental Science from the University of Michigan and developed the now internationally recog- nized HealthyStuff.org. University of Notre Dame The University of Notre Dame is a private research university in Indiana. –– Dr. Graham Peaslee, Professor of Physics, has worked on analytical measurement techniques in nuclear science as applied to environmental problems for the past 15 years. He studies mixed media, such as lake sediments, soils, house dust, and consumer products, for the presence of chemicals of concern, such as heavy metals, halogenated flame retardants, and per- and polyflu- ABOUT THIS RESEARCH orinated compounds.
    [Show full text]
  • Evaluation of Toxic Release Inventory Facilities in Metropolitan Atlanta: Census Tract Demographics, Facility Distribution, Air Toxic Emissions and Regulation
    Georgia State University ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University Public Health Theses School of Public Health Spring 5-15-2015 Evaluation of Toxic Release Inventory Facilities in Metropolitan Atlanta: Census Tract Demographics, Facility Distribution, Air Toxic Emissions and Regulation Ryan Johnson Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.gsu.edu/iph_theses Recommended Citation Johnson, Ryan, "Evaluation of Toxic Release Inventory Facilities in Metropolitan Atlanta: Census Tract Demographics, Facility Distribution, Air Toxic Emissions and Regulation." Thesis, Georgia State University, 2015. https://scholarworks.gsu.edu/iph_theses/394 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the School of Public Health at ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Public Health Theses by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Evaluation of Toxic Release Inventory Facilities in Metropolitan Atlanta: Census tract demographics, facility distribution, air toxic emissions and regulation Ryan W. Johnson B.S., Biology SAVANNAH STATE UNIVERSITY A Thesis Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of Georgia State University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree MASTER OF PUBLIC HEALTH GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY ATLANTA, GEORGIA APPROVAL PAGE Evaluation of Toxic Release Inventory Facilities in Metropolitan Atlanta: Census tract demographics, facility distribution, air toxic emissions and regulation
    [Show full text]
  • RACE and the DISTRIBUTION of SOCIAL and PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENTAL RISK a Case Example from the Detroit Metropolitan Area
    RACE AND THE DISTRIBUTION OF SOCIAL AND PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENTAL RISK A Case Example from the Detroit Metropolitan Area Amy J. Schulz Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, University of Michigan School of Public Health , Ann Arbor Graciela B. Mentz Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, University of Michigan School of Public Health , Ann Arbor Natalie Sampson Department of Health and Human Services , University of Michigan-Dearborn Melanie Ward Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, University of Michigan School of Public Health , Ann Arbor Rhonda Anderson Sierra Club Detroit Offi ce , Detroit Ricardo de Majo Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, University of Michigan School of Public Health , Ann Arbor Barbara A. Israel Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, University of Michigan School of Public Health , Ann Arbor Toby C. Lewis Department of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases and Environmental Health Sciences , University of Michigan , Ann Arbor Donele Wilkins Green Door Initiative , Detroit Abstract Since W. E. B. Du Bois documented the physical and social environments of Philadelphia’s predominantly African American Seventh Ward over a century ago, there has been continued interest in understanding the distribution of social and physical environments by racial Du Bois Review, 13:2 (2016) 285– 304 . © 2016 Hutchins Center for African and African American Research 1742-058X/16 $15.00 doi:10.1017/S1742058X16000163 285 4787C 645C7:8 C:6C8 28CD/6:4.5C4C064D5868,45C7:8,C88CDD8444584 645C7:8 C:6C88CD 7 7 C: 13 Amy J. Schulz et al. make-up of communities. Characterization of these environments allows for documentation of inequities, identifies communities which encounter heightened risk, and can inform action to promote health equity.
    [Show full text]
  • Flame Retardants a Report to the Legislature
    Flame Retardants A Report to the Legislature Revised June 2015 Publication no. 14-04-047 Publication and Contact Information This report is available on the Department of Ecology’s website at https://fortress.wa.gov/ecy/publications/SummaryPages/1404047.html For more information contact: Hazardous Waste and Toxics Reduction Program P.O. Box 47600 Olympia, WA 98504-7600 Phone: 360-407-6700 Washington State Department of Ecology - www.ecy.wa.gov o Headquarters, Olympia 360-407-6000 o Northwest Regional Office, Bellevue 425-649-7000 o Southwest Regional Office, Olympia 360-407-6300 o Central Regional Office, Yakima 509-575-2490 o Eastern Regional Office, Spokane 509-329-3400 Accommodation Requests: To request ADA accommodation including materials in a format for the visually impaired, call the Hazardous Waste and Toxics Reduction Program, 360-407-6700. Persons with impaired hearing may call Washington Relay Service at 711. Persons with speech disability may call TTY at 877-833-6341. Flame Retardants A Report to the Legislature By Saskia van Bergen, Holly Davies, Joshua Grice, Callie Mathieu, and Alex Stone Hazardous Waste and Toxics Reduction Program Washington State Department of Ecology Olympia, Washington Acknowledgements The authors would like to thank the following for their contributions to this document: Staff at the Department of Ecology’s Manchester Laboratory for laboratory analysis and data quality reviews: Joel Bird, Karin Feddersen, John Weakland, and others. The following Department of Ecology headquarters staff: . Kara Steward for assistance with the regulation summary and for reviewing the draft report. Andrew Wineke, Megan Warfield, Ken Zarker, Carol Kraege, Dale Norton, and K Seiler for reviewing the draft report.
    [Show full text]