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CONTENTS Volume 23, Number 5, May 1989
FEATURES
508 International transport of hazardous waste. Albert E. Fry examines reasons hazardous waste is being shipped around the world. 510 Global hazardous transfers. Harvey Yakowitz discusses the transport of hazardous wastes across international frontiers. 496 Subsurface transport of contaminants. Mobile colloids in the subsurface environment may alter the transport of contaminants. John F. McCarthy, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN and John M. Zachara, Battelle Pacific Northwest Laboratory, Richland, WA. 503 Introduction to a series of articles on remedial action technologies. The cleaning up of hazardous waste sites.
DEPARTMENTS 491 Editorial 492 Letters 493 Currents 512 Environmental index 514 Books 516 Products 520 Classified 524 Consulting services directory
Remediation of groundwater contamination—the second article of a five-part series on remedial action technologies
RESEARCH
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511 Environmental awards. ES&T's Julian Josephson lists the winners of the 1989 Graduate Student Awards in Environmental Chemistry.
UPCOMING
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VIEWS
504 Field screening of hazardous waste sites. The first of a five-part series on remedial action technologies. Wayne Chudyk, Tufts University, Medford, MA.
REGULATORY FOCUS 513 Needed: An enforcement threshold. Alvin L. Aim suggests that Congress and EPA need to reach a consensus on how many Superfund sites may be cleaned up, at what cost, and over what time period.
525 Relationship between subsurface biodégradation rates and microbial density. Gary T. Hickman* and John T. Novak Biodégradation kinetics of methanol, phenol, and ieri-butyl alcohol in soils are studied, and rates are regressed against measures of microbial density. ESTHAG 23(5)489-618 (1989) ISSN 0013 936X Cover: (and p. 504, third photo) Mark B. Thompson. Waste site is investigated by Paul Jones and Gary Moore. Credits: p. 494, Henry Wilson, Inc.; p. 495, Du Pont; p. 496, Robert Soulé; p. 504 (first photo), Lester Brown; p. 509, Donald Gates
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