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Using Your Right to Know: A Guide to the Community Right to Know Act
This handbook focuses on how you can use a powerful legal tool known as the Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act (EPCRA). This manual tells you how to find out about the toxic chemicals stored or discharged in your community and then explains what to do with the information you've gathered.
Order Item: #P091
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Center for Disease Control: Cover-up, Deceit and Confusion
If you are considering inviting federal or state health agencies into your community to assess health, it is critically important that you read this book before you invite them. ATSDR - the federal agency under CDC - has made errors in communities across the nation and this guidebook highlights a few of them.
Order Item: #P061
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Radon: Problems and Solutions
This manual deals with radon-a colorless, odorless gas that lives in many basements across the country. Because radon is not easily detected, it is the second leading cause of lung cancer. Topics covered by this guidebook include what radon is, where it comes from, and what you can do about radon contamination in your home.
Order Item: #P089
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Deepwell Injection: An Explosive Issue
60% of U.S. toxic waste is pumped into wells where it is then free to contaminate drinking water and enter the food chain. As incinerators are closed, deepwell injection may become the next threat to your community. This guidebook explains deepwell injection and outlines strategies to use if you discover your community contains injection wells.
Order Item: #P056
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Transportation: Danger on the Road
Whether you have an existing or a proposed facility, transportation is an important issue. School children will be standing along the side of the same roads that the heavy trucks will use to carry waste to and from the facility in all types of weather. What are the chances of an accident? What emergency response team will respond to a mishap and will they be trained to deal with the situation? Who will pay to maintain these roads? This guidebook addresses these questions and others raised by this issue.
Order Item: #P065
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