**Assignment: Community’s Pollution and reaction (Module 5/1)
After reading the topics and text for this module, go to http://scorecard.goodguide.com and read your community's pollution report card. Post your reaction to your community's report card.
*Discuss Top chemicals (air pollution), & top water pollution in my county (see uploaded information about STYRENE). SEE ARTICLES and INFORMATION BELOW ABOUT THESE CHEMICALS
* Post my reaction to it (This nurse practitioner is surprised about the levels of toxic chemicals the population is exposed to, specially from STYRENE)--- just a reaction anybody would have about this… help me here… See articles on how it’s the nurse responsibility to take action to protect the health of the community
* Must have 2 references from peer review articles (see uploaded)
**ARTICLE: “Air pollution is a serious public health issue, responsible for over seven million deaths a year worldwide” ( Lam, J., Sutton, P., Kalkbrenner, A., Windham, G., Halladay, A., Koustas, E., . . . Woodruff, T. 2016).
**ARTICLE: air pollution and the level of risk to health, arising from particulate and gaseous air pollution. (Ragothaman, A., & Anderson, W. A. (2017).
- The top chemical in my county is “STYRENE” with 69,893 pounds
http://scorecard.goodguide.com/chemical-profiles/summary.tcl?edf_substance_id=100-42-5#hazards
More hazardous than most chemicals in 6 out of 10 ranking systems.
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This is a high volume chemical with production exceeding 1 million pounds annually in the U.S.
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http://scorecard.goodguide.com/chemical-profiles/uses.tcl?edf_substance_id=100-42-5
| **They are approximately 20 top polluters in Gwinnett that are polluting the community. MR. TUBS INC. in sugar Hill is ranked as #1.
MAJOR POLLUTANTS in my community: STYRENE69,8932CHLORODIFLUOROMETHANE4,1283DICHLOROMETHANE3,1584DIISOCYANATES2,7515HYDROCHLORIC ACID2,4506XYLENE (MIXED ISOMERS)1,9197TOLUENE1,21681,1-DICHLORO-1-FLUOROETHANE8289TRICHLOROETHYLENE72610COPPER61011AMMONIA53812N-HEXANE53513CHROMIUM52014METHYL ETHYL KETONE35715MANGANESE35516NICKEL26517HYDROFLUORIC ACID25018GLYCOL ETHERS16319ETHYLENE GLYCOL5220LEAD42 |
- B. Regulatory Coverage
http://scorecard.goodguide.com/chemical-groups/one-list.tcl?short_list_name=tri00ry
Description The original list of approximately 300 substances subject to TRI reporting requirements was derived from chemical lists used by New Jersey and Maryland. The TRI list has subsequently been modified and expanded, as the EPA removed some low-risk substances and added more pollutants. 1998 was the last reporting year for PHOSPHORIC ACID. In 2000, 25 chemicals were added to the list, including 17 DIOXIN AND DIOXIN-LIKE COMPOUNDS and other persistent, bioaccumulative, and/or toxic chemicals. Chemicals are listed if they are known to cause or can reasonably be anticipated to cause significant adverse acute effects on health at concentrations likely beyond facility boundaries; cancer, teratogenic effects, reproductive effects, neurological effects, heritable genetic mutations, or other chronic effects on health; or significant damage to the environment. |
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| Reference EPA, TRI Toxics Release Inventory Program. TRI Chemicals. http://www.epa.gov/triinter/chemical/ |
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| Chemicals under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) |
- See here for Clean Water Act Comparative Ranking
For Gwinnett, Georgia (shows high % for dirty water?)
