Hazardous Waste Management

National strategies to minimize pollution, including that from hazardous waste, are evolving in both the United States and Canada. The authors find that disposal is still common practice for handling hazardous waste, despite the potential for alternative methods.

Michalann Harthill is an energy policy analyst for the Minerals Management Service of the Department of the Interior in Washington, D.C. A biogeochemist by training, she helped design the hazardous waste management program for the Bureau of Reclamation, and she specializes in the rehabilitation of disturbed lands. Since 1981 she has taught courses in the politics of environmental regulation at Hood College in Frederick, Maryland.

About the Series -- Introduction -- Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976 -- A Canadian Federal Perspective -- Methods for Assessing Health -- Selecting Sites for Radioactive Waste Repositories -- Siting Nonradioactive Hazardous Waste Facilities -- Public Participation in Siting -- An Industrial Viewpoint -- Waste Disposal/Management Options -- Cleaning Up Uncontrolled Hazardous Waste Sites -- Superfund -- Striking a Reasonable Balance