@article{4484f3ea55be4aa3b4b9f863c223ba2c,
title = "Managing hazardous materials along the U.S.-Mexico border",
abstract = "Mexico's border region is home to thousands of industrial plants called maquiladoras that play a large part in hazardous-materials issues in the border area. Hazardous substances used by industry are dangerous to environmental and human health. These materials are often managed inadequately as they travel back and forth between the United States and Mexico, and they are difficult to track due to irregularly enforced restrictions and inconsistent reporting.",
author = "Robert Varady and {Romero Lankao}, Patricia and Katherine Hankins",
note = "Funding Information: A version of this article will be published in a forthcoming book (see note 1). The authors hope that any- one reading this article will recognize their strong reliance on work done over the past several years by La Neta: Proyecto Emisiones and the Texas Center for Policy Studies (TCPS). Associates of those programs have pioneered the study of hazardous-materials man- agement in the US-Mexico border area, issuing sever- al key reports on a subject that was markedly underex-plored prior to their investigations. For that work, we owe a great debt to Cyrus Reed, a project director at TCPS; and his colleagues, Marissa Jacott from La Neta in Mexico; and Alejandro Villaniar, Red Mexicana de Acci6n Frente al Libre Comercio in Mexico City, Mexico. We are especially grateful to Mr. Reed, who reviewed the manuscript and furnished a number of critical pieces of information. Research assistance, editing, and review were provided by Leah Stauber of the Udall Center; further assistance was contributed by Juan Lopez Molina, of the Departamento de Politica y Cultura at UAM. Wendy Laird-Benner of EPA and Greg Block of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation clarified several key points. Finally, the authors acknowledge the long-term support provided by the Ford Foundation to the Udall Center for environmental research on the border, the Morris K. Udall Foundation for its funding of environmental-policy investigations, and the encouragement and support of the NIEHS-funded Center for Toxicology Superfund Basic Research Program at the University of Arizona.",
year = "2001",
doi = "10.1080/00139150109605151",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "43",
pages = "22--36",
journal = "Environment",
issn = "0013-9157",
publisher = "Taylor and Francis Ltd.",
number = "10",
}