For this Assignment, you will take the perspective of a director of a regional E

For this Assignment, you will take the perspective of a director
of a regional Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) office. The national EPA
Office of Environmental Information (OEI) has tasked all regional directors to
identify an environmental hazard in your community.
For this contaminant, write a short summary of the hazard (2–3
pages) to submit to EPA OEI. In this report, please discuss the human health
effects of exposure, the sources of the hazard into the environment, and the
route of human exposure. Specify whether the hazard is chemical, physical, or
biological and whether this affects occupational health, the general public, or
both. Provide at least one suggestion on how to reduce the environmental hazard
in your community.
Please review the PU530 Reading Assignments for
the list of assigned readings for each unit.
Chapters 6 and 7 go into more detail into common environmental
hazards. These chapters generally discuss hazardous elements and chemicals as
well as providing details of the human health effects from exposure to specific
compounds.