RNR 1001 Chapter : RNR 21 Sep
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-40 tons of mic released (gas), 900k people affected, 3k died. - several things led to this legal, technology, organized policy in response to disaster, human errors to blame a smoke stack burn-off tower was turned off control . But it doesn"t just happen in other countries . So you can see we have direct impact on human population when it comes to env. The same thing almost happened in 2008, it killed 2 people and hurt 8. So what impacts do we have on nr as well as people (and on env. The epa has a toxic release inventory where all companies have to report their toxic release. In 2009 the epa reported 486 substances traced, of the substances, 3 billion pounds released, & 71 pounds was dioxin. Dioxin- very toxic compounds, one of worst on planet. Many test have been done in labs and in the field (field study is best)
