ENSC 696, Recent Advances in Environmental Science, to be taught Fall 2019

• This is a listing of the readings for ENSC 696 when I last taught it, in Fall 2017.

  The course takes up a variety of topics: chemical exposures, natural resources land management, administrative law, risk assessment, emergency planning, chronic health effects, studies of this kind in Calcasieu Parish. I will not just repeat this lineup, but this gives you and idea of what the course is like. I will certainly add some natural resource GIS applications that I have been using.

  Students are required to give a presentation to the class.

   

  Introduction

  Some reading to get started.

  • Reid vapor pressure in Louisiana URL
  • A generic view of toxic chemicals URL
  • EPA Center for Exposure Assessment Modeling (CEAM) URL
  • Federal Land Management Agencies: Background on Land and Resources Management URL
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  The Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act

  • EPCRA Fact Sheet URL
  • Houston plant danger URL
  • Chemical storage reporting URL
  • More on hazardous chemical reporting URL
  • Calcasieu Toxic Release Inventory File 20.2KB Excel 2007 spreadsheet
  • Risk Management Plans (Clean Air Act) URL
  • EPCRA Right to Know File 271.9KB PDF document
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  Risk Assessment

  Acute, chronic risk. No-threshold chemicals. Industrial accidents. Hazardous materials in transportation. Risk acceptability.

  • A generic view of toxic chemicals File 2.2MB PDF document
  • Science and decisions File 4.3MB PDF document
  • Truck Flow 2014 File 1.5MB PDF document
  • International Agency for Research on Cancer URL
  • AP-42 Compilation of Emission Factors URL
  • MOBILE6 File 209.3KB PDF document
  • Multimedia Fate and Transport Modeling URL
  • Total Risk Integrated Methodology URL
  • DeathsByAge File 58KB Excel spreadsheet
  • 10lcid all deaths by age group 2010-a File 87.2KB PDF document
  • 14BillionHands File 652KB PDF document
  • CancerBasicsSlides File 79.9KB PDF document
  • DoseScaling File 35.4KB Excel 2007 spreadsheet
  • Worldometers URL
  • TooManyRodentCarcinogens File 1.3MB PDF document
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  Chapter 4

  Content, figures, and problems in Chapter 4, Risk Assessment

  • Text Chapter4 Risk Assessment File 23.1MB PDF document
  • Risk Assessment Chapter 04 Figures File 2.3MB Powerpoint presentation
  • Chapter4RiskCheckFigures File 20.2KB PDF document
  • Chapter4Solutions1-4 File 191KB PDF document
  • Chapter4Solutions5-8 File 199KB PDF document
  • Chapter4Solutions13-16 File 231.2KB PDF document
  • Chapter4Solutions18 File 276.6KB PDF document
  • Chapter4Solutions9-12 File 195.6KB PDF document
  • Chapter4Solutions24+28 File 55.9KB PDF document
  • Chapter4Solution32 File 360.9KB PDF document
  • CH4Examples File 31.9KB Excel 2007 spreadsheet
  • RiskModelCh4 File 24.3KB Excel 2007 spreadsheet
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  Law and public policy

  Administrative law and agency rulemaking, application of statutes by "alphabet" agencies.

  • IndUnionDept-AmPetroInstitute File 231.1KB PDF document
  • LawAndRegulationBenzeneEHP File 6MB PDF document