Love Canal: A legacy of doubt

Unit I Essay

Locate the following video in the General OneFile database in the CSU Online Library:

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Love Canal: A legacy of doubt [Video file]. (2015). New York Times Video Collection. Retrieved from http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CCT351695363&v=2.1&u=oran95108&it=r&p=ITOF&sw=w&asid=49 05c27b0a100ea0288d8cb5bc60b8e2

Once you have watched the video, locate and read the following article in the Academic OneFile in the CSU Online Library:

Rosenberg, D. (2003). Love Canal’s long shadow 25 years later: Twenty-five years later, another New York town turns toxic. Newsweek, 50. Retrieved from
http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CA106107213&v=2.1&u=oran95108&it=r&p=AONE&sw=w&asid=06 deea23e704a41a0b598fcaf9093389

After you have watched the video and read the article, answer the following questions.

1. How did the Love Canal incident influence the way we deal with toxic waste in America?
2. Do you think that the area around Love Canal should have been inhabited after the cleanup? Would you move into such an area? Why, or why not?
3. What does the Blake family’s story indicate about the effectiveness of our hazardous waste regulations? What more should be done to prevent situations like Hickory Woods?
4. Discuss your thoughts on how the health issues experienced by the Hickory Woods and Love Canal residents should impact regulations. When public health impacts cannot be definitively linked to contamination, how should the government respond?

Your response to EACH question must be a minimum of 200 words, and EACH response should contain at least one intext citation. You should include your references at the end of the document. Any sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying APA citations.

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Unit II Assignment

For this assignment, navigate to https://www.epa.gov/hw/criteria-definition-solid-waste-and-solid-and-hazardous-wasteexclusions. Using this site and the links in it, you should be able to answer the following questions. If you want to look at other sources, you may.

1. The waste your company creates in a process is on the EPA’s F-list. It has the following characteristics:
• None of the ingredients, substitutes, or materials are returned to the original process.
• The material is not specifically excluded from RCRA.
• The material is not a military munition or inherently waste-like.
• Your waste is considered “abandoned” because it is accumulated before it is disposed of.
Is the waste considered a solid waste that is regulated under RCRA? In your answer, describe why each characteristic does or does not make the waste a solid waste under RCRA.
2. Describe what it means if a waste is accumulated speculatively.
3. You are asked by your employer to determine if a waste is subject to RCRA. The waste is spent sulfuric acid. Use the EPA website to explain why the waste is or is not subject to RCRA.
4. Your facility produces a listed waste that is inherently waste-like and is not used as an ingredient or substitute in the original process. The waste is not specifically excluded, nor is it a military munition. Describe how you would determine if the waste is regulated as a hazardous waste under RCRA. What does it mean when a waste is
“inherently waste-like” under RCRA?

Your response must be in essay format and should be a minimum of one page in length. Any sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying APA citations.

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Unit III Essay

Contingency Plan

You are a newly hired environmental manager at a small college in the United States. You are asked to write a hazardous waste management plan for your facility, a Large Quality Generator (LQG). The college creates waste via chemistry laboratories, research activities, and maintenance activities. Using your textbook, the CSU Online Library, and other resources, describe the basic components of your plan and why each is needed. You are not required to write the entire plan, however, you must identify the key sections of the plan and why you would include them.

Refer to the requirements in Chapter 12, pages 379-390, of your textbook as a reference for the essay. In your essay, be sure to address the following topics:

1. how you will manage hazardous waste on-site,
2. how you will address emergency response,
3. personnel training,
4. reporting and recordkeeping,
5. permitting,
6. containment buildings and facility requirements, and
7. planning and notification.

You do not have to address requirements for specific chemicals. The goal for this assignment is to research and discuss the RCRA requirements for an LQG. Your essay must be a minimum of three pages in length, not including cover page and references. At least one reference must be from the CSU Online Library. Feel free to go to the Internet and search out examples of college and university HWMPs, however, make sure to cite them in your essay.

All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations, and cited per APA guidelines.

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Unit IV PowerPoint Presentation

Congratulations! You have just been hired as the environmental manager at a hazardous waste incinerator. The community around your incinerator has some concerns about your facility, and you have been selected to create a PowerPoint presentation explaining your facility and its environmental effects at a community meeting. Using your textbook, the CSU Online Library and other resources, describe the basic components of your facility, the regulations it must follow, and the environmental effects it might have on the community.

The PowerPoint presentation template provided here will tell you what to cover in each slide. Click here to access the template to create a new PowerPoint presentation. Do NOT just add to the template for your PowerPoint presentation. If it takes more slides than the template provides to cover a topic, that is fine! The following elements are required in your PowerPoint presentation:

1. Speaker’s notes: Each slide should have detailed speaker’s notes. The notes should thoroughly narrate the PowerPoint presentation and contain everything that you would be saying to your audience if you were actually giving the PowerPoint presentation in the community meeting. The slides should not contain paragraphs of text. The bulk of the text should be in the speaker’s notes, and the slides should summarize and give a visual guide to what you are saying in the speaker’s notes.
2. Background and graphics/photos: Make your PowerPoint presentation visually interesting, but not crowded.

All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations, and cited per APA guidelines.

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Unit VI Essay

You are the new environmental manager for a facility that generates a large amount of used oil. The management of the company has not properly managed its used oil in the past, and you have been assigned the task of writing a report on what needs to be done at the facility to comply with regulations. Your report should contain the following information:

• the chemical characteristics of used oil,
• the health and environmental effects of used oil,
• regulatory requirements for used oil generators, and
• your recommendations for what should be done with the facility’s used oil (re-refining, slipstreaming, etc.).

Your report must be a minimum of three pages in length and use at least two outside resources. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations, and cited per APA guidelines.

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Unit VII Essay

For this assignment, you are required to write a minimum three-page essay on electronic waste. Your paper must include the following information:

• How much e-waste is generated?
• What are the hazardous characteristics of e-waste?
• What are the regulatory requirements for e-waste?
• What currently happens to e-waste?
• Is current regulation enough to protect the public from e-waste both here and abroad?

You must use at least two outside resources. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations, and cited per APA guidelines.

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BEM 3701 Hazardous Waste Management