Lecture 19 - Environmental Chemicals I

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Learning Objectives

1. Understand the major environmental chemicals and major groups of environmental chemicals of concern.
2. Describe lists and categories of environmental chemicals.
3. Use a case study to explore the contamination and clean-up challenges of the Berkeley Pit in Butte, MT.
4. Use a case study to explore the relationship between lead pollution and children’s blood lead levels in the Bunker Hill Superfund site in Northern Idaho.
5. Use a case study to explore the results of an industrial sulfur fire near Cape Town, South Africa.

Advance Reading

1. ATSDR: Public Health Statement on Lead
2. EPA: Persistent Organic Pollutants: A Global Issue, A Global Response
3. Optional: Crosby pp. 32-34
4. Optional: Crosby pp. 205-222; pp224-225

Resources

Keywords

Suggested Reading

1. EPA Pollutants and Toxics Pages
2. EPA Water Quality Priority Pollutants
3. Current List of Toxics Release Inventory Chemicals
4. PBTs: Persistent, Bioaccumulative, Toxic Chemicals
5. USEPA: Bunker Hill and the CdA Basin
6. ASTDR Health Consultation: Bunker Hill
7. Panorama of the Berkeley Pit
8. Berkeley Pit: Pit Watch
9. Berkeley Pit Statistics 
10. Outside magazine, September 1996, As the Snake Did Away with the Geese
11. "Pennies From Hell" E. Dobb, Harper's Magazine, October 1996