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Of natmats, terrorists, and toxics: regulatory adaptation in a changing world.
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UCLA Journal of Environmental Law & Policy
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December 22, 2007
- Author:
- Malloy, Timothy F.
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 2007 University of California at Los Angeles, School of Law. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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I. INTRODUCTION
II. THE PERFECT STORM
A. Natural Accidents
B. Climate Change
C. Industrial Terrorism
III. DUELING PARADIGMS: MANAGEMENT VS.
PREVENTION
A. Implementing the Dominant Paradigm
B. Inherently Safer Design
IV. ADAPTATION: INTEGRATION OF ISD
V. CONCLUSION
I. INTRODUCTION
A Category four hurricane is bearing down upon the Gulf Coast. Managers at the Trident Oil refinery in Pascagoula, Mississippi, invoke shutdown procedures three days prior to expected landfall. All crude oil, sulfuric acid, hydrofluoric acid, and other hazardous materials are drained from the process units and the nearby storage tanks and pumped to a ...
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Examine the China Hydrofluoric Acid Market Report, 2008.(Report)
Canadian Corporate News;
September 18, 2008 ;
654 words
......available in its catalogue. China Hydrofluoric Acid Market Report, 2008 http://www.reportlinker.com/p092096/China-Hydrofluoric-Acid-Market-Report-2008.html By the end of 2007, China's annual hydrofluoric acid production capacity has broken...
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A Report on China's Hydrofluoric Acid Market 2008, Providing Data on...
M2 Presswire;
August 12, 2008 ;
369 words
......and Markets: A Report on China's Hydrofluoric Acid Market 2008, Providing Data on Forecasts...announced the addition of the China Hydrofluoric Acid Market Report, 2008 report to their...By the end of 2007, China's annual hydrofluoric acid production capacity surpassed 870...
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Hydrofluoric acid burns.
American Family Physician;
April 1, 1992 ;
Mistry, Dinu G. Wainwright, David J.;
787 words
...Hydrofluoric acid is widely used in both industrial...of injury. In major exposure to hydrofluoric acid, management includes serum electrolyte...repletion of calcium deficiency. Hydrofluoric acid, one of the strongest inorganic...
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hydrofluoric acid
A Dictionary of Chemistry;
6 words
...hydrofluoric acid See hydrogen fluoride .
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China Hydrofluoric Acid Market Report, 2008.
M2 Presswire;
August 29, 2008 ;
283 words
......companiesandmarkets.com: China Hydrofluoric Acid Market Report, 2008(C)1994-20...com adds new report: China Hydrofluoric Acid Market Report, 2008 By the end of 2007, China''s annual hydrofluoric acid production capacity has broken...
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GROUP: REFINERY PUTS AREA AT RISK
Evansville Courier & Press;
October 20, 2003 ;
DAVE HOSICK, Courier & Press staff writer 464-7449 or hosickd@evansville.net;
457 words
......people at risk because of the toxic hydrofluoric acid it produces. The Indiana Public Interest...refinery in Indiana that utilizes hydrofluoric acid in its refining process. The acid...million people at risk of exposure to hydrofluoric acid. Illinois has four such refineries...
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Letters to the editor
Dermatology Times;
September 1, 2001 ;
Anonymous;
757 words
...Hydrofluoric acid burn therapy As a clinician and researcher who has treated many cases of hydrofluoric acid burns over the past 30 plus years...the world's largest producer of hydrofluoric acid, I was most distressed to read the...
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 "Deseret News (Salt Lake City)")
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Refineries' use of a poison protested
Deseret News (Salt Lake City);
August 5, 2005 ;
Tammy Walquist Deseret Morning News;
365 words
......community members posed by refineries using hydrofluoric acid. Hydrofluoric acid is a highly toxic substance that, if spilled...five oil refineries in Utah, three use hydrofluoric acid: Chevron Texaco Salt Lake Refinery, Woods...
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 "Salt Lake Tribune (Salt Lake City, UT)")
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Advocacy group protests use of chemical by Utah refineries.
Salt Lake Tribune (Salt Lake City, UT);
August 5, 2005 ;
552 words
......City-area refineries to stop using hydrofluoric acid. The chemical is one of two catalysts...around refineries that use or store hydrofluoric acid on site, based on data U.S. PIRG...area that might be affected by a hydrofluoric acid cloud, according to the group's estimates...
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Recovering fluorspar from waste hydrofluoric acid.(Environment and...
New Materials Japan;
April 1, 2005 ;
260 words
......aims to create a recycling network. Hydrofluoric acid is processed to produce fluororesins...in fridges and air-conditioners. Hydrofluoric acid is also used as an etching fluid...is the raw material used to make hydrofluoric acid, and at present virtually all of...
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Japanese Inventors Develop Hydrofluoric Acid Wastewater Treatment Method
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;
January 1, 2008 ;
405 words
......Japan, have developed a hydrofluoric acid wastewater treatment device...The invention provides a hydrofluoric acid wastewater treatment method...achieves efficient recovery of hydrofluoric acid from hydrofluoric acid wastewater...
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An invisible fire. (chemical burn from hydrofluoric acid)(Vital Signs)
Discover;
April 1, 1996 ;
Brown, Jeremy;
787 words
......feared. That distinction belongs to hydrofluoric acid, a compound commonly used in solvents...can leave behind a scarred limb. Hydrofluoric acid can severely damage the deep tissues...Counterintuitively, perhaps, what makes hydrofluoric acid so deadly is not that it is a strong...
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Refineries called risky to Utahns
Deseret News (Salt Lake City);
October 15, 2003 ;
Lee Davidson Deseret Morning News;
551 words
......they store and use large amounts of hydrofluoric acid when other, safer materials could...We focused on refineries that use hydrofluoric acid for two reasons. First, there are...nation's 153 petroleum refineries use hydrofluoric acid or store it on site. It says that...
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Simplest therapy works for hydrofluoric acid burns
Dermatology Times;
December 1, 1999 ;
Bowser, Andrew;
671 words
...Las Vegas - For hydrofluoric acid bums on the hands, simply...Mississippi Medical Center. Hydrofluoric acid bums are typically treated...topical calcium, 50 percent. Hydrofluoric acid burns are familiar to most...
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AlliedSignal to Buy Fluorochemical Firm
The Journal Record;
February 3, 1994 ;
117 words
......people. The Akzo business manufactures hydrofluoric acid and fluorocarbons. Hydrofluoric acid is the key raw material for fluorocarbons...foam-insulation, cleaning and sterilization. Hydrofluoric acid is also used in oil-refining and steel...
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