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Managing the Health Impacts of Waste Incineration
go? • 370A Innovative chemical measurements reveal phosphate concentrations in Canadian lakes are 100 to 1000 times lower than previously estimated.
Phosphate: How low can it
• 380A Are the risks of waste incineration fully accounted for? Apparently not. As discussed by Thomas E. McKone and S. Katharine Hammond, the current framework used to assess incinerator health effects often excludes workers and regional populations.
Promoting a Greener European Union • 388A Times are changing for Europe's largest environmental organization, the Brussels-based European Environmental Bureau (EEB). In an interview with science writer, Maria Burke, John Hontelez, the organization's secretary-general, discusses the new issues that EEB must address as it prepares for fresh struggles over the environmental problems that will arise when the European Union accepts new members.
Scotchgard ban highlights unknowns • 371A Researchers find Scotchgard constituent perfluoro-octane sulfonate in human blood and animal tissue samples from many parts of the world where it is not manufactured.
Government Watch • 371A EU limits on power plants • Science czar for U.S. EPA? • Recycling computers in Europe • Cleaning up EU waterways
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ENVIRONMENTAL Science & Technology September 1 , 2000 • Vol. 34, No. 17
Departments NRC urges pesticide alternatives • 373A Integrated pest management techniques could make food safer for children.
Comment • 369A The universal language
Research Watch • 394A Cleaner paper pulp production • Swine emissions faulted Online/In Print • 396A Web sites and new books Meeting Calendar • 39/A New events through June 2001 Buyer's Guide • 398A Environmental products and services
Technology Solutions • 378A Integrating technology to target power plant pollutants
Classifieds • 399A Environmental career opportunities • Advertiser index
Research at a Glance Surprising human healthperchlorate link • 374A Abnormal thyroid activity in Arizona newborns has been linked to ammonium perchlorate in drinking water from the Colorado River. Arsenic in old herbicides comes back to haunt Denver • 376A
Denver residents face high arsenic concentrations from herbicides used in the 1950s and 1960s. Remembering Alvin Alm • 377
Environmental and energy policy maker Alvin Aim dies at 63.
4-CI-nitrobenzene, reaction, 3641 Alachlor, membranes, 3574 Amines, soils, 3674 Anion-exchange resins, 3761 Automobiles, life cycle, 3598 Colloids, behavior, 3681 Colloids, filtration, 3774 Colloids, membranes, 3767 Colloids, mobilization, 3749 p-Cyanonitrobenzene, transformation, 3617 Dioxin, sediment, 3560 Dioxin, sediment, 3568 DNAPL, treatment, 3722 Floods, control, 3730 Fumigants, reaction, 3717 Humic substances, behavior, 3818 Hydrous iron oxides, 3540 Indoor, contaminants, 3579 Membrane, performance, 3710 Metals, lakes, 3588 Metals, remediation, 3802 Metals, speciation, 3665 Model, persistence, 3809 NAPL, sampling, 3657 NOM, characteristics, 3623 NOM, characteristics, 3632 Organics, sorption, 3824 PAHs, atmosphere, 3547 PAHs, degradation, 3649 PAHs, partitioning, 3690 Paper pulp, treatment, 3705 Particle, fate/transport, 3555 34(17) 361A-400A/3527-3830 ISSN 0017 936X
Photocatalysis, kinetics, 3789 Photocatalysis, mechanism, 3796 Swine, emissions, 3527 TNT, soil, 3698 U(VI), reduction, 3742 Uranyl,, adsorption, 3737 Vehicle, emissions, 3535 Vehicles, emissions, 3606 VOCs, soil, 3611 Water, treatment, 3780 Zeolite, sorption, 3756 The table of contents of research papers in this issue begins on page 365A.
Cover: In this month's cover story, Tom McKone and Katharine Hammond explain why there are still major, unresolved concerns with incinerators.
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