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The True State of the Air Report
by Joel M. Schwartz  Publisher Comments This book documents how much U.S. air quality has improved in recent decades and gives by far the most accurate picture available of continuing air pollution problems and how to address them....
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Toxic Burn: The Grassroots Struggle Against the Wti Incinerator
by Thomas Shevory Publisher Comments Debates over global warming and fossil fuel dependence dominate public discussions of the environment. For many of us, these debates are abstract because environmental problems do not yet disrupt our daily lives. But in communities throughout the United...
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Pesticide Properties in the Environment
by Arthur G Hornsby Publisher Comments Identifying and remediating environmental contamination is a complex and very expensive problem worldwide. Pollution of soil and water by pesticides is a significant issue that persists for years after the pesticide application ceases. Pesticide...
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Acid Rain in the Adirondacks: An Environmental History
by Jerry Jenkins Book News Annotation Jenkins (Wildlife Conservation Society) chronicles the deposition of acids and mercury from fossil fuel combustion onto the Adirondack Mountains region, and how researchers measured the acid rain and traced it ecological effects. Color graphs and maps...
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Fatal Deception: The Terrifying True Story of How Asbestos Is Killing America
by Michael Bowker Publisher Comments STILL LEGAL, STILL LETHAL<P>Most Americans mistakenly believe asbestos was banned long ago. In fact, it is still legal and can still kill you. Its microscopic fibers cause painful and incurable diseases. <P>Despite being outlawed in nearly...
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Redesigning the American Lawn: A Search for Environmental Harmony
by F Herbert Bormann Publisher Comments The authors in this book argue that our dedication to maintaining beautiful lawns is contributing to the serious environmental problems facing the planet, and they offer strategies for creating and caring for aesthetically pleasing and ecologically sound...
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Charging Ahead
by John J Berger Publisher Comments Charging Ahead foretells the world's next great energy transformation: the shift to clean, renewable energy sources. It shows how renewable energy, energy efficiency, and electric vehicles, when used together, can give us back a clean environment and...
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The Great Lead Water Pipe Disaster
by Werner Troesken Publisher Comments The history of a long-running environmental catastrophe chronicles the harmful effects of lead pipes and their continued use despite evidence that they pose a significant health risk....
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Lost Mountain: A Year in the Vanishing Wilderness Radical Strip Mining and the Devastation Ofappalachia
by Erik Reece Publisher Comments A new form of strip mining has caused a state of emergency for the Appalachian wilderness and the communities that depend on it-a crisis compounded by issues of government neglect, corporate hubris, and class conflict. In this powerful call to arms, Erik...
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Chasing the Wind: Regulating Air Pollution in the Common Law State
by Noga Morag Levine Publisher Comments "No other book so thoroughly weaves together themes in common-law nuisance, federal pollution legislation, local pollution control, and even constitutional law. Morag-Levine manages to tell a story about how all of these various strands fit together that...
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When Smoke Ran Like Water: Tales of Environmental Deception and the Battle Against Pollution
by Devra Davis Publisher Comments In When Smoke Ran Like Water, the world-renowned epidemiologist Devra Davis confronts the public triumphs and private failures of her lifelong battle against environmental pollution. By turns impassioned and analytic, she documents the shocking toll of a...
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Making Peace with the Planet
by Barry Commoner Publisher Comments This sequel to The Closing Circle details why most attempts to "save" the environment have failed, and what we must do to rectify things now....
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Chemical Fate & Transport in the Environment
by Harold F Hemond Book News Annotation a text for a one-semester course which includes students who aren't necessarily pursuing a degree in environmental science but whose work may require a basic literacy in environmental transport and fate processes. It covers the fundamental principles...
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Toxic Deception : How the Chemical Industry Manipulates Science, Bends the Law, and Endangers Your Health (99 Edition)
by Dan Fagin Synopsis Toxic pollution has increased frighteningly in the thirty-seven years since the publication of Rachel Carson's seminal Silent Spring, and the chemical industry has become infinitely more sophisticated at deploying legions of lobbyists, lawyers...
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Public Reactions to Nuclear Waste: Citizens' Views of Repository Siting
by Riley E Dunlap Publisher Comments Nuclear waste is going nowhere, and neither is the debate over its disposal. The problem, growing every day, has proven intractable, with policymakers on one side, armed with daunting technical data, and the public on the other, declaring: not in my...
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No Safe Place: Toxic Waste, Leukemia & Community Action
by Phil Brown Book News Annotation The chronicle of how residents of Woburn, Massachusetts discovered a leukemia cluster among their children and eventually sued two corporate giants. The authors look at the Woburn experience in light of similar cases, such as Love Canal, to show that...
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Chemical Deception: The Toxic Threat to Health & the Environment
by Marc Lappe Book News Annotation Paper reprint of the respected cloth edition ($27.00) of 1991 (a Best science books for general readers selection of Library journal). Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)...
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Reviews of Environmental Contamination & Toxicology, Vol. 108
by G.w. Ware Book News Annotation Latest volume of this respected series covers: foliar penetration and accumulation of organic chemicals in plant cuticles; occurrence and significance of bound pesticide residues in soil; cobalt in the environment and its toxicological implications...
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Superfund's Future: What Will It Cost?
by Katherine N Probst Publisher Comments One of the most contentious issues in the recent congressional debate about the reauthorization of Superfund concerns how much money EPA needs for its implementation in the years to come. To provide some guidance for this discussion, the U.S. Congress...
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Taxing automobile emissions for pollution control
by Maureen Sevigny Book News Annotation This study uses a simulation model to analyze the sensitivity of travel demand and the resulting emissions to different tax rates and demand elasticities. The author concludes that an emissions tax has the potential to reduce emissions from household...
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