Product Description: Hazardous wastes often head the public's list of environmental concerns. Exaggerated estimates of cancer epidemics arising from waste sites generate a sense of alarm, but little is known about the real extent of the health threats...read more

Product Description: Cleaning up and redeveloping environmentally contaminated real estate, also knows as 'brownfields,' can be extremely lucrative. This book is a comprehensive guide to the issues surrounding brownfields initiatives. It examines success stories of state and federal brownfields programs; the legal implications of purchasing, improving, redeveloping, and revitalizing these sites; incentives available; and strategies for undertaking these projects...read more

Product Description: This report is an examination of the policies developed to bring about accelerated cleanup of military bases now closing in California and the relevance of those policies to other Department of Defense cleanup programs and hazardous waste policy in general.