What\u27s Current in Asbestos Regulations

Asbestos, once valued as a superb insulator, is now recognized as a deadly carcinogen. The United States Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) estimates that 733,000 public and commercial buildings in the United States contain friable asbestos or asbestos-containing materials. Thus, it is not surprising that an avalanche of litigation has resulted from concerns over exposure to asbestos

Federal and State Remedies to Clean Up Hazardous Waste Sites

Over fifty-seven million metric tons of hazardous waste are produced as a by-product of manufacturing in the United States each year. Only ten percent of this waste is disposed of in an environmentally sound manner. The improper disposal of hazardous waste has given rise to crisis areas of national notoriety such as Love Canal and Valley of the Drums. Although the danger to public health and the environment cannot be precisely calculated, the disposal of hazardous waste presents a problem that can no longer be ignored. Virginia\u27s own experience with kepone contamination in the James River exemplifies the dangers and costs associated with this disposal problem

Turning Dissertations into Books: Works-in-Progress

This is a works-in-progress session where multiethnic practitioner researchers in the Ed. D. in Curriculum Studies Program at Georgia Southern explore creative ways to dive into life, write into contradictions, and turn dissertations into books derived from programs of research on the life of schools, families, and communities in the U. S. South. The book series editors and authors will work with prospective authors from diverse research paradigms on multiple forms of inquiry and representation in educational research. The book series editors will work with prospective authors particularly on the cultural, linguistic, and political poetics of personal, community, and historical narrative to liberate academic writing. The potentials, contributions, concerns, and future directions of various inquiries and representations are also discussed. Specifically, the book series editors and authors will work with the prospective authors chapter by chapter. Published books in the series will be used as examples for the prospective authors as they compose a book prospectus, a mission statement, market questionnaires, book contract, and any other relevant documents for the submission of book manuscripts to the book series editors. The purpose of this work session is to explore creative ways to write about research and to recognize the importance of, and ways of engaging in such writing to embody a particular stance in relation to integrity, beauty, humanity, and freedom, to move beyond traditions and boundaries, and to embed inquiry in school, neighborhood, and community life to transform research into social and educational change