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The Minderoo-Monaco Commission on Plastics and Human Health
Annals of Global Health, 2023 Background: Plastics have conveyed great benefits to humanity and made possible some of the most significant advances of modern civilization in fields as diverse as medicine, electronics, aerospace, construction, food packaging, and sports.
Philip J. Landrigan +47 more
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On the Impact of Future Land Use Assumptions on Risk Analysis for Superfund Sites [PDF]
Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association, 1997 In this paper, assumptions regarding future land use as a key uncertainty is considered and its impact on risk analysis for contaminated sites is assessed. Risks are assessed for two land use scenarios (current-use industrial and future-use residential) using probabilistic models that incorporate uncertainty and variability in the exposure parameters ...
Peter T, Katsumata +1 more
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Frontiers in Water, 2020 High concentrations of trace metal(loid)s exported from abandoned mine wastes and acid rock drainage pose a risk to the health of aquatic ecosystems.
Beth Hoagland +3 more
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Spatial disparity in the distribution of superfund sites in South Carolina: an ecological study [PDF]
, 2013 BACKGROUND: According to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Superfund is a federal government program implemented to clean up uncontrolled hazardous waste sites.
Ashok Samantapudi +7 more
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Systematic developmental neurotoxicity assessment of a representative PAH Superfund mixture using zebrafish [PDF]
Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology, 2018 Superfund sites often consist of complex mixtures of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). It is widely recognized that PAHs pose risks to human and environmental health, but the risks posed by exposure to PAH mixtures are unclear. We constructed an environmentally relevant PAH mixture with the top 10 most prevalent PAHs (SM10) from a Superfund site
Mitra C. Geier +7 more
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Bi-Directional Learning: Identifying Contaminants on the Yurok Indian Reservation. [PDF]
, 2019 The Yurok Tribe partnered with the University of California Davis (UC Davis) Superfund Research Program to identify and address contaminants in the Klamath watershed that may be impairing human and ecosystem health.
Cosby, Christine +7 more
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Superfund Locations and Potential Associations with Cancer Incidence in Florida
Statistics and Public Policy, 2017 Uncontrolled hazardous wastes sites have the potential to adversely impact human health and damage or disrupt ecological systems and the greater environment.
Alexander Kirpich, Emily Leary
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Stigma as a multispatial‐scale process: Revisiting the worst US Superfund sites
Risk Analysis, 2022 AbstractAreas immediately adjacent to 16 of the first US national priority (NPL) hazardous waste sites that also had pre‐superfund emergency actions were examined to measure local stigma. Four decades after their NPL designation, I found marked variation in these areas’ social, public health and environmental attributes.
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International Journal of Health Geographics, 2009 Background Over the last two decades, various spatial techniques have been demonstrated using geographical information systems (GIS) to adequately estimate and characterize inequities of minority populations living near environmentally hazardous ...
Kiros Gebre-Egziabher, Kearney Greg
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Commencement Bay: Resource-Use Conflicts at a Marine Superfund Site [PDF]
OCEANS 82, 1982 Commencement Bay is located at the southern end of the main basin of Puget Sound, a mostly pristine inland sea located in northwestern Washington. Considerable industrial development and modifications of the bay have occurred since the late 1800's. As a result, parts of the bay have become contaminated with numerous heavy metals, synthetic organic ...
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