Nuclear and toxic waste
By: Thomas Streissguth, book editor.
Contributors: Streissguth, Thomas, 1958-
Series: At issue; At issue (San Diego, Calif.)
Publisher: Greenhaven Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: San Diego, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 96
Subjects: Hazardous wastes -- United States; Hazardous waste sites -- United States; Radioactive waste disposal -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 92-93) and index.
Table of contents: title: The Superfund Program should be eliminated / James DeLong; title: The Superfund Program can operate successfully / The Environmental Protection Agency; title: Industrial pollution increases cancer rates / Barbara Koeppel; title: Minority communities can fight polluters / Ziba Kashef; title: Communities will tolerate pollution when jobs are at stake / Bobbie Ann Mason; title: The chemical industry seeks to keep vital information from the public / Claude Morgan; title: The private sector is key in cleaning up toxic waste / Steve Lerner; title: The courts should decide toxic waste disputes / Roger Meiners and Bruce Yandle; title: Properly constructed landfill conversions can contain toxic waste / Jessica Snyder Sachs; title: Some states actively court the nuclear waste industry / Jim Woolf; title: The high-level nuclear waste program is misguided / James Flynn ... [et al.]; title: Yucca Mountain is the best solution to nuclear waste storage / Luther J. Carter.