Cleaning Hazardous Waste Sites

Allocating cleanup costs at hazardous waste sites.

Hazardous waste landfill sites and congenital anomalies.

he EUROHAZCON collaborative group reported a further stage of their research on connections between congenital anomalies and hazardous waste landfill sites in the November 2002 issue of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 1 An expert panel scoring method has been used to estimate the hazard potential of EUROHAZCON landfill sites and to investigate whether sites classified as posing a great...

Estimation of Liabilities Due to Inactive Hazardous Waste Sites

The potential liability associated with inactive hazardous waste sites can be large for both policyholders and insurance companies. Our paper outlines several methods that can be used to estimate and monitor insurance company and/or policyholder liabilities associated with inactive hazardous waste sites. We have outlined several publicly available data elements which can be helpful in evaluatin...

Suggested landfill sites for hazardous waste in Iraq

Iraq experienced two devastating wars in 1991 and 2003, during which massive amounts of new weapons and sophisticated manufactured nuclear weapons were used called Depleted Uranium (DU). As a consequence of the radioactive contamination; the humans are suffering from various disease like cancer and the environment is polluted. In practice, there is no strategy and/ or national program, not even...

Hazardous waste sites and stroke in New York State

BACKGROUND Environmental exposure to persistent organic pollutants (POPs) may lead to elevation of serum lipids, increasing risk of atherosclerosis with thromboembolism, a recognized cause of stroke. We tested the hypothesis that exposure to contaminants from residence near hazardous waste sites in New York State influences the occurrence of stroke. METHODS The rates of stroke hospital discha...