ENVR TC 121 — Intro To Hazardous Materials Management
This course is an overview of the environmental impacts resulting from hazardous materials such as asbestos, and their mismanagement. Emphasis is placed on understanding the sources responsible for soil, water, land, and air pollution and the environmental laws governing our natural resources, including asbestos. Emphasis is placed on storage and treatment practices, monitoring, sampling and handling techniques, damaging effects on humans, ecology and environment, as well as governmental regulations concerning soil, water, and air. Writing assignments, as appropriate to the discipline, are part of the course.