Managing the health impacts of waste incineration
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A report from the National Research Council reveals the different issues arising from the use of waste incinerators e.g. pollution emissions, exposures, and health hazards.
Publication Name: Environmental Science & Technology
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0013-936X
Year: 2000
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Pollutant-specific scale of multimedia models and its implications for the potential dose
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Pollutant-specific model scales are expanded through the addition of atmospheric scale height. Accompanying charts and graphs provide additional statistical data.
Publication Name: Environmental Science & Technology
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0013-936X
Year: 2001
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General formulation of characteristic travel distance for semivolatile organic chemicals in a multimedia environments
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Researchers from U.C. Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of Osnabruck, Germany developed a method to measure the distance traveled by a semivolatile organic pollutant from a source region using tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin as case study.
Publication Name: Environmental Science & Technology
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0013-936X
Year: 1998
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