Hazard screening of chemical releases and environmental equity analysis of populations proximate to toxic release inventory facilities in Oregon

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 106, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 217-226

  Neumann, Catherine M ^a   Forman, Debra L ^b   Rothlein, Joan E ^c  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^c OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemical indexing system; Chronic index; Demographic analysis; Environmental equity; Environmental justice; GIS; Hazard screening; Risk analysis

Indexed keywords

ACETONE; AMMONIA; CHLOROFORM; ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMICAL; ETHER DERIVATIVE; GLYCOL; MANGANESE; METHANOL; NICKEL; TOLUENE; TOXIC SUBSTANCE; TRICHLOROETHYLENE;

ARTICLE; DATA BASE; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOTOXICITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOUSEHOLD; INCOME; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; MINORITY GROUP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING; SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 0031967281     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.98106217     Document Type: Article

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