Danger All Around: Waste Storage Crisis on the Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coast

by Joel B. Goldsteen

Overview

The problem of where to store waste has grabbed a lot of headlines, but people have been slow to realize that the environmental damage caused by storage sites is an even greater menace. This book makes the danger clear, as Joel Goldsteen offers the first comprehensive look at the selection and environmental impact of municipal and petrochemical waste storage sites along the Texas and Louisiana coasts.

Goldsteen has distilled a large landfill-worth of data into a highly readable account of the creation and regulation of waste disposal sites, the health issues that surround them, and the human and natural factors that affect how safe or dangerous they become. Chapters that describe industrial development along the Gulf Coast and the concurrent challenges of wastewater treatment, solid waste management, and hazardous waste control are followed by in-depth descriptions of nine Texas and four Louisiana sites, all representative of problems far beyond the Texas-Louisiana coast.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780292722514
Publisher:	University of Texas Press
Publication date:	05/01/1993
Pages:	279
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.59(d)

About the Author

Joel B. Goldsteen is an associate professor of city and regional planning at the Institute of Urban Studies of the University of Texas at Arlington.

Table of Contents

• Acronyms and Abbreviations
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1. Defining the Problem and Setting the Scene
• 2. The Toxic Texas Coast
• 3. Environmental Effects on Waste Disposal in Texas
• 4. Texas Waste Sites
• 5. The Lethal Louisiana Coast
• 6. Environmental Factors in Louisiana Waste Disposal
• 7. Louisiana Waste Sites
• 8. Public Health and Industrial Land Use
• 9. Regulatory Framework for Waste Sites
• 10. Land-Use Planning for Environmental Protection: Waste Sites and the Future
• Notes
• Selected References
• Index