Environmental information

Introduction Difficulties in Extracting Scientific Environmental Information from the Internet... 

Environmental information is available extensively on the free Internet. Two main reasons aeeount for this. First, the freedom of environmental information law and, secondly, the fact that many environmental databases which used to be available only commercially are now accessible on the free Internet. This section focuses on environmental information which is available free of charge on the Internet. Three main paths are distinguished for searching environmental information effectively. In general, all three routes should be taken into consideration for achieving a sound search result for environmental information on chemical stibstances... 

K. Voigt, Databases on environmental information, in Handbook of Chemoin-formatics, J. Gasteiger (Ed.), Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, 2003, Chapter V, Section 10. 

U.S. EPA Environmental Monitoring Methods Index, including regulatory Hsts, analytical methods, detection and regulatory limits coverage of worldwide environmental information... 

MSDS summarizes all of the important health, safety, and environmental information about a substance. A version of this standard also appHes to laboratories, including research and development faciUties, and requires the development of a laboratory hygiene plan. 

The elemental composition of the fish otoliths is a potential source of the useful information to recreate environment history of the individual fish in some of the species. In-depth study of the chemical composition of the otolith center (formed eaidy in fish life) and otolith edge (formed later in fish life) ensures chronological and environmental information stored in the otoliths [1]. This infoiTnation may be achieved by X-ray electron probe microanalysis (EPMA). EPMA is the analytical method to determine the elemental composition of different otolith s parts, their sizes varying from ten up to some tens of microns. 

Health, Safety and Environmental Information MSDS for Raw Materials and Product Previous Process Hazard Analyses... 

Environmental Information Management System and Occupational Health Information System... 

The Select Industrial Discharge System (SIDS) assists exposure assessors and other analysts by consolidating current data contained in various EPA water-related environmental information... 

Safety and environmental information is needed to provide a basis for implementation of further program components such as operating procedures and hazards analysis. Specific guidelines as to what information is needed are contained in API RP 141. 

The management program should include written facility operating procedures. These procedures should provide ample instruction for sound operation and be consistent with the safety and environmental information, Procedures should be reviewed and updated periodically to reflect current process operating practices. Procedures provide the means for education of new employees about the process and provide education to all employees on new equipment and practices. 

One of the world s largest environmental information clearinghouses. In addition to being an information resource, EnviroLink provides environmental and animal rights non-profit organizations with free Internet sendees. 

CERI is the focal point for the exchange of scientific and technical environmental information produced by the Office of Research and Development (ORD), its 12 research laboratories, and associated programs nationwide. Hours 8 00 a.m. - 4 30p.m., Monday - Friday EST,... 

The central clearinghouse for the exchange of scientific, technical and public-oriented environmental information published by the Environmental Protection Agency. Provides copies of EPA documents and multimedia products upon request. It operates Monday through Friday, 7 30 a.m. -5 30p.m. EST. 

ElONET - European Environmental Information and Observation Network... 

An ElA can be particularly useful in distinguishing the relative environmental impact of alternative sites, processes and strategies for industrial, rural or urban development. Decision-makers to choose the alternative that will provide maximum economic and social benefits with the minimum of environmental disturbance can then use this essential environmental information, together with financial and political considerations. Guidelines for assessing... 

The global atmospheric circulation acts as an enormous filtration system, which depletes high-latitude precipitation of heavy isotope-bearing water molecules. Because of this system, measurements of the stable isotopic composition of the ice sheets and of ocean-floor sediments reveal very important paleo-environmental information (see Sections 18.2.2,18.3.2, and 18.3.3). Here we examine this filtration system at a physical level. This system was first understood by a great Danish geochemist named Willi Dansgaard (Dansgaard, 1964). 

Delmas, R. J. (1992). Environmental information from ice cores. Rev. Geophys. 30,1-21. 

Epstein, S. and Krishnamurthy, RV. 1990 Environmental information in the isotopic record in trees. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society London A 330 427-439. 

DC Office of Information Analysis and Access, Offices of Environmental Information, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Toxic Release Inventory. HttD //www.eDa.gov/triexpIorer/. April 27, 2001. 

Phosphorylation by protein kinases of specific seryl, threonyl, or tyrosyl residues—and subsequent dephosphorylation by protein phosphatases—regulates the activity of many human enzymes. The protein kinases and phosphatases that participate in regulatory cascades which respond to hormonal or second messenger signals constimte a bio-organic computer that can process and integrate complex environmental information to produce an appropriate and comprehensive cellular response. 

Vervalin, C.H. Contact These Sources for Environmental Information, Hydrocarbon Processing, Oct. 1973, p. 71. 

Most of the provisions of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) of 1976 (PL 94-469) rely in some way on risk assessment of chemicals. Under the reporting requirements of the statute, any manufacturer, processor, or distributor of a chemical for commercial purposes must inform the EPA immediately after discovering any information which "reasonably supports the conclusion" that a chemical substance or mixture "presents a substantial risk of injury to health or to the environment" unless the EPA Administrator has been adequately informed already. EPA is mandated to establish regulations for testing new or existing substances when it is determined that there is not enough health or environmental information, that testing is necessary to develop such information and that the chemical or mixture "may present an unreasonable risk of injury to health or the environment."... 

Wier M, Anderson LM and Millock K (2005) Information provision, consumer perceptions and values - the case of organic foods , forthcoming in Russell C and Karup S, Environmental Information and Consumer Behaviour, New Horizons in Environmental Economics Series, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK. 

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