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Save time - and maybe a life - with The Essential Pocket Book of Emergency Chemical Management. This detailed, no-nonsense guide contains all the information first responders need to quickly and effectively manage a chemical spill or leak. It efficiently presents information in an easy-to-use table format throughout two sections. The first section lists more than 600 chemicals and chemical compounds and their specifications as follows: oThe common chemical name.oThe DOT number - a standardized number issued by the U.S. Department of Transportation and posted on the outside of the carrier, identifying the cargo.oCAS number - the substance's Chemical Abstract Services number, which accurately identifies a substance when several pseudonyms are present. oForm - a brief description of the substance's appearance. oNFPA code - a three-digit code representing health, flammability and reactivity hazards associated with the substance as issued by the National Fire Protection Association. oVapor pressure - a relative ranking of how much vapor will be given off at room temperature.oWater solubility - an indication of how soluble the substance is in water. oPPE (Proper Protective Equipment) - a listing of the level of protection recommended for a moderate-size spill.oIncompatibilities - a listing of those classes of chemical compounds that may react with the listed substance.oSpill - recommended procedures for cleaning up spills.oDecon - recommended procedures to decontaminate spill areas.oFire - recommended fire fighting agents and methods.oFirst Aid - health issues important to first responders.oSpecial - important issues associated with the specific chemical.The second section of this valuable book contains isolation distances and reporting information for each chemical. It is organized as follows:oDOT Isolation - circular isolation distances recommended when no fire is present.oDOT Take Cover - downwind isolation distances recommended when no fire is present.oRCRA Waste Number - waste identification numbers.oReportable Quantities - reportable quantities for potential wastes. When seconds count, rely on The Essential Pocket Book of Emergency Chemical Management. With this compact resource as your guide, you can leave those unwieldy volumes and computers behind - leaving you more time, energy, and confidence at the accident site. ... Read more

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This new edition of Spill Reporting & Right-to-Know Compliance analyzes all major reporting requirements and exemptions, details the reporting form and procedure, and provides the resources you need to comply. Featuring more than 450 new pages, this handbook identifies and discusses the spill reporting requirements of Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Title 40. ... Read more

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Remediation of PCB Spills provides guidelines for cleaning up PCB spills, emphasizing sampling design, sampling methods, and analytical methods. The book covers every important aspect of PCB remediation, including sampling design, quality assurance, components of the cleanup process, sampling and analysis guidelines, and analytical techniques. It will be a valuable guide for all personnel working with PCBs, especially environmental engineers, chemists, consultants, and regulatory agency personnel. ... Read more

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"I just got mad. I couldn't breathe in my own house."
—Ruth Reed, a resident of Ocala, Florida, who lives next door to a Royal Oak Charcoal factory

Across the United States, thousands of people, most of them in low-income or minority communities, live next to heavily polluting industrial sites. Many of them, like Ruth Reed, reach a point at which they say "Enough is enough." After living for years with poisoned air and water, contaminated soil, and pollution-related health problems, they start to take action—organizing, speaking up, documenting the effects of pollution on their neighborhoods.

In Sacrifice Zones, Steve Lerner tells the stories of twelve communities, from Brooklyn to Pensacola, that rose up to fight the industries and military bases causing disproportionately high levels of chemical pollution. He calls these low-income neighborhoods "sacrifice zones"—repurposing a Cold War term coined by U.S. government officials to designate areas contaminated with radioactive pollutants during the manufacture of nuclear weapons. And he argues that residents of a new generation of sacrifice zones, tainted with chemical pollutants, need additional regulatory protections.

Studies show that poor and minority neighborhoods are more polluted than wealthier areas located farther away from heavy industry. Sacrifice Zones goes beyond these disheartening statistics and gives us the voices of the residents themselves. We hear from people like Margaret L. Williams, who organized her neighbors to demand relocation away from two Superfund hazardous waste sites; Hilton Kelley, who came back to his hometown to find intensified emissions from the Exxon Mobil refinery next to the housing project in which he grew up; and Laura Ward, who found technicians drilling a hole in her backyard to test groundwater for pollution from the nearby Lockheed Martin weapons plant. Sacrifice Zones offers compelling portraits of accidental activists who have become grassroots leaders in the struggle for environmental justice and details the successful tactics they have used on the fence line with heavy industry. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from New Hampshire Business Review, published by Business Publications, Inc. on October 24, 2008. The length of the article is 345 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Presstek sues insurer over chemical spill: dispute over coverage lands in federal court.(LAWSUIT)
Author: Bob Sanders
Publication: New Hampshire Business Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 24, 2008
Publisher: Business Publications, Inc.
Volume: 30Issue: 23Page: 14(1)

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This digital document is an article from Pollution A to Z, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 1698 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Provides the latest information on a variety of pollution issues, including sources, disposal, remediation, the ethical, social, and legal environment, careers, and much more. Articles range from topical essays on acid rain, cancer, noise pollution, and zero growth population to biographies on key figures. ... Read more

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This digital document is a journal article from Environmental Modelling and Software, published by Elsevier in 2004. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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A chemical spill model, CHEMMAP, was developed to predict the trajectory and fate of floating, sinking, soluble and insoluble chemicals and product mixtures. The model uses physical-chemical properties to predict the fate of a chemical spill. Processes simulated include: (1) slick spreading, transport, and entrainment of floating materials; (2) transport of dissolved and particulate materials in three dimensions; (3) evaporation and volatilization; (4) dissolution and adsorption; (5) sedimentation and resuspension; (6) and degradation. The chemical fates model estimates the distribution of chemical (as mass and concentrations) on the water surface, on shorelines, in the water column and in the sediments. The model is three-dimensional, separately tracking surface slicks, entrained droplets or particles of pure chemical, chemical adsorbed to suspended particulates, and dissolved chemical. CHEMMAP may be run as a single scenario (i.e. a forecast or hindcast) or in stochastic mode to estimate the probable distribution and concentrations resulting from hypothetical spills. The stochastic mode was utilized to analyze environmental risks associated with chemical products used in deepwater oil and gas operations in the Gulf of Mexico. Under contract to the Gulf of Mexico office of MMS, the model results were used to evaluate potential for impacts from spills. Seventeen scenarios were run for hypothetical spills in the offshore Gulf of Mexico. The model results were used to assess the potential for ecological consequences resulting from spills during offshore oil and gas operations. ... Read more

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Herding agents, emulsion treating agents, solidifiers, elasticity modifiers, shoreline cleaning agents, shoreling pre-treatment agents and oxidation agents. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Environmental Health Perspectives, published by National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences on August 1, 2009. The length of the article is 735 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: TVA spill's chemical legacy.(HAZARDOUS WASTE)(Tennessee Valley Authority)
Author: Rhitu Chatterjee
Publication: Environmental Health Perspectives (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 1, 2009
Publisher: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Volume: 117Issue: 8Page: A346(1)

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This digital document is an article from Northern Ontario Business, published by Laurentian Business Publishing, Inc. on April 1, 2003. The length of the article is 755 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: How to respond to a chemical spill. (Health and Safety).
Publication: Northern Ontario Business (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 2003
Publisher: Laurentian Business Publishing, Inc.
Volume: 23Issue: 6Page: S11(1)

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This digital document is an article from The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), published by The Register Guard on December 19, 2003. The length of the article is 323 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Chemical spill snarls traffic, sends an officer to hospital.(Accidents)
Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) (Newspaper)
Date: December 19, 2003
Publisher: The Register Guard
Page: D1

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This digital document is an article from Canadian Chemical News, published by Chemical Institute of Canada on September 1, 1997. The length of the article is 1892 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Airborne laser sensors for oil spill remote sensing.
Author: Carl E. Brown
Publication: Canadian Chemical News (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 1, 1997
Publisher: Chemical Institute of Canada
Volume: v49Issue: n8Page: p22(2)

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This digital document is a journal article from Environmental Modelling and Software, published by Elsevier in . The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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A wide variety of chemicals are shipped in bulk world-wide, raising concerns regarding the ecological and human health risks of spills of hazardous materials. A screening analysis was performed, using the chemical spill model CHEMMAP to estimate the expected fate and concentrations of chemical in water resulting from a spill into a large estuary and the potential ecological hazards to aquatic biota. A representative sample of chemical products, including floating, sinking, soluble and insoluble chemicals, was evaluated. The model uses physical-chemical properties to simulate fate processes, including: (1) slick spreading, transport, and entrainment of floating materials, (2) transport of dissolved and particulate materials in three dimensions, (3) evaporation and volatilization, (4) dissolution and adsorption, (5) sedimentation and resuspension, and (6) degradation. The model estimates the distribution of chemical (as mass and concentrations) on the water surface, on shorelines, in the water column, in the sediments, and in the lower atmosphere (in the zone where there would be exposure to humans and wildlife) over time. Chemicals typically shipped in bulk were classified into groups based on physical-chemical characteristics. Hypothetical spills representative of each class were simulated to estimate maximum exposure concentrations around the spill site at any time after the spill. Since currents are the most critical environmental input data to these results, current data from a calibrated and validated hydrodynamic model were used as spill model inputs. The spill modeling was performed in stochastic mode, i.e. multiple model runs are simulated by randomly selecting dates and times for the release, sampling the range of possible tidal current and wind conditions. Maximum predicted environmental concentrations (PECs) were mapped in terms of hazard quotients (HQ), analogous to PEC divided by Predicted No Effects Concentration (PEC/PNEC). The area where the HQ>1 was calculated for each model run. The mean and standard deviation for the set of stochastic runs within a scenario describes the expected hazard and its variability caused by varying wind and current conditions at the time of the spill. ... Read more

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This digital document is a journal article from Journal of Environmental Management, published by Elsevier in 2005. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Assessing the environmental consequences of a chemical accident is a complex task. To date, the methods used to evaluate the environmental effects of an acute release of a chemical have often been based on measurements of chemical and physical variables deemed to be important, such as the concentration of the chemical. However, a broader strategy is needed to predict the environmental consequences of potential accidents during the planning process. An Environment-Accident Index (EAI), a simple tool based on such a strategy, has been developed to facilitate the consideration of a multitude of influential variables. The objectives of this study were to evaluate whether questionnaire-based expert panel's judgements could provide useful data on the environmental consequences of chemical spills, and an effective basis for further development of the EAI. As expected, the judgements did not agree perfectly, but they do give rough indications of the environmental effects, and highlight consistent trends that should be useful inputs for planning, prevention and decontamination processes. The different accidents were also judged to have caused everything from minor to very major effects in the environment, implying that a wide range of accident scenarios were represented in the material and covered by the EAI. Therefore, questionnaires and expert panel judgements can be used to collect useful data for estimating the likely environmental consequences of chemical accidents and for further development of the EAI. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Canadian Chemical News, published by Chemical Institute of Canada on September 1, 2004. The length of the article is 429 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Oil spill still a sticky situation.
Publication: Canadian Chemical News (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 1, 2004
Publisher: Chemical Institute of Canada
Volume: 56Issue: 8Page: 7(1)

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This digital document is an article from Northern Ontario Business, published by Laurentian Business Publishing, Inc. on September 1, 2002. The length of the article is 735 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: $200m upgrades underway: announcement falls on heels of major chemical leak at plant. (Forestry: Special Report).(Weyerhaeuser facility in Dryden, Ontario)(Brief Article)
Author: Kelly Louiseize
Publication: Northern Ontario Business (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 1, 2002
Publisher: Laurentian Business Publishing, Inc.
Volume: 22Issue: 11Page: 24(1)

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This digital document is an article from NotiSur - South American Political and Economic Affairs, published by Latin American Data Base/Latin American Institute on April 11, 2003. The length of the article is 1247 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: BRAZIL: TOXIC WASTE SPILL A DISASTER FOR RIVERS.(fishing villages and water supply devestated)
Publication: NotiSur - South American Political and Economic Affairs (Newsletter)
Date: April 11, 2003
Publisher: Latin American Data Base/Latin American Institute


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