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Abraham, Martin – Community Development Journal, 1988
Examines the implications of the Bhopal catastrophe and the organization by the consumer movement of a coalition of community action groups--The International Coalition for Justice in Bhopal--that links action in the developed and developing countries. (JOW)
Descriptors: Accidents, Community Action, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries
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Crown, E. M.; Rigakis, K. B. – Canadian Home Economics Journal, 1989
A research program addressing the problem of providing protective workwear that is acceptable to workers is described. Several phases of two different projects within the program are outlined, emphasizing benefits of the interdisciplinary holistic approach to the problem that has been adopted by the research team. (Author)
Descriptors: Adults, Clothing Design, Hazardous Materials, Holistic Approach
Gibbs, Lois; And Others – Everyone's Backyard, 1995
Presents examples of four communities that successfully organized against a community environmental threat. Profiles the fight against racism in Newtown, GA; efforts to maintain coalitions in Tifton, GA; action against exposure to dioxin in Columbus, OH; and activism against an illegal sludge dump on the Torres-Martinez Reservation (Cahuilla), CA.…
Descriptors: Activism, Community Action, Community Education, Environmental Education
Link, Terry – Green Library Journal, 1993
This bibliography contains 108 articles from magazines, journals, reports, and selected government publications about environmental racism; the environmental discrimination against people of color and those submerged in poverty in the United States. (MDH)
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Environmental Education, Hazardous Materials, Justice
Grier, Norma – Journal of Pesticide Reform, 1993
Presents a pamphlet and four brochures about pesticide hazards, pesticide use and alternatives, special impacts on children, lawn and garden pest management, and pesticides in food. Discusses the whys and ways of using these materials to inform people about pesticide issues. (MDH)
Descriptors: Community Education, Environmental Education, Gardening, Hazardous Materials
White, George L.; And Others – Health Values: American Journal of Health Behavior, Education & Promotion, 1995
Current evidence suggests that the effects of electromagnetic fields (EMF) disturb cell homeostasis at very low intensities by influencing discrete intracellular magnetic fields. The article reviews current research about the health effects of EMF, examining historical implications, childhood studies, adult studies, and popular press reports, and…
Descriptors: Biological Influences, Electrical Appliances, Environmental Influences, Hazardous Materials
Gibbs, Lois – Everyone's Backyard, 1995
Addresses citizen action taken by African American communities in Pensacola, Florida located in close proximity to a Superfund site. Discusses how the community is organizing to stop site clean-up efforts that residents claim have unjustly increased their already high exposure to toxins such as dioxin. (LZ)
Descriptors: Activism, Community Action, Community Education, Environmental Education
Hancock, Don – Workbook, 1992
Explores why the United States Nuclear Waste Program has been unable to find a volunteer state to host either a nuclear waste repository or monitored retrieval storage facility. Discusses the Department of Energy's plans for Nevada's Yucca Mountain as a repository and state and tribal responses to the plan. (21 references) (MCO)
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Federal Government, Hazardous Materials, Instructional Materials
Miller, Norma L. – Principal, 1993
Children are at high risk of exposure to dangerous chemicals because of their low weight, incompletely developed body defenses, rapidly growing body tissues, and small passages susceptible to inflammations and spasms. Five areas of concern involving school maintenance include art supplies, lead-based compounds, hazardous cleaning substances,…
Descriptors: Cleaning, Elementary Education, Hazardous Materials, Lead Poisoning
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Dixon, Trevor R. – Environmental Education and Information, 1991
Discussed are the effectiveness of the current international regulatory framework to protect the marine environment, the need for more stringent maritime regulations fostered by an increased popular awareness that this current framework is outdated, and the strategies deemed appropriate to assimilate the "total environmental view" within…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Environmental Standards, Hazardous Materials, Marine Biology
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Roy, Ken – Science Education International, 2000
Explains that mercury is a dangerous substance to use in school science laboratories and gives several examples of mercury poisoning. Lists some precautions that should be taken in case of mercury spillage in the lab. Advocates using non-mercury laboratory equipment and limiting student access to mercury to prevent dangerous situations. (YDS)
Descriptors: Chemistry, Elementary Secondary Education, Hazardous Materials, Laboratory Safety
Southwick, Ron – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2001
Explores the after-effects on college laboratories of the anthrax mail scare; scientists say the anthrax scare justifies tougher rules on biological agents, but some fear that Congress may go too far. (EV)
Descriptors: Colleges, Federal Regulation, Hazardous Materials, Higher Education
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Shendell, Derek G.; Barnett, Claire; Boese, Stephen – Journal of School Health, 2004
The US General Accounting Office (GAO) documented generally poor conditions of school facilities in the early 1990s. Previous papers examined, for time intervals ending before 2002, relationships between education facility indoor air and environmental quality (IEQ), including adequate ventilation, and occupant health and productivity. Research on…
Descriptors: Educational Facilities, School Construction, Pollution, Environmental Standards
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Wang, Joanna Shaofen; Wai, Chien M. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2004
Information on the worldwide occurrence of groundwater pollution by arsenic, the ensuing health hazards, and the debatable government regulations of arsenic in drinking water, is presented. Diagnostic identification of arsenic, and methods to eliminate it from water are also discussed.
Descriptors: Conservation (Environment), Environmental Education, Water Pollution, Hazardous Materials
US Environmental Protection Agency, 2008
Children and adolescents, up to approximately age 20, are more susceptible than adults to potential health risks from chemicals and environmental hazards. Hazardous chemicals can interrupt or alter the normal development of a child's body, leading to lasting damage. Since children are smaller than adults, similar levels of exposure to toxic…
Descriptors: Hazardous Materials, Risk, Adolescents, Foreign Countries
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