The environment A to Z /
This non-technical book attempts to catalogue and summarize the issues, terms, laws, organizations and personalities shaping current environmental policy. Constructed in an easily used alphabetical format, it includes passages on major federal bills, advocacy group profiles (including their primary...
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Washington, D.C. :
CQ Press,
[2001]
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Table of Contents:
- Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund
- Acceptable risk
- Acid rain
- Agricultural runoff
- Air pollution
- Air quality control regions
- Air quality index
- Alar
- Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act
- Algal blooms
- Alliance of Small Island States
- Alternative Motor Fuels Act
- American Farm Bureau Federation
- American Heritage Rivers Initiative
- Antarctica treaty
- Antiquities Act
- Aquaculture
- Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
- Asbestos
- Babbitt, Bruce
- Bald eagle
- Barrier islands
- Batteries
- Baucus, Max
- Below-cost timber sales
- Best available control technology
- Bhopal
- Biodiversity
- Bliley, Thomas J., Jr.
- Browner, Carol
- Brownfields
- Btu tax
- Bush, George
- Bycatch
- Carbon dioxide
- Carbon sequestration
- Carbon sinks
- Carter, Jimmy
- CFCs
- Chafee, John H.
- Citizen lawsuits
- Clean Air Act
- Clean coal
- Clean Water Act
- Clearcutting
- Clinton, Bill
- Coastal Barrier Resources Act
- Coastal Zone Management Act
- Command and control
- Conformity
- Conservation Reserve Program
- Consumption
- Convention on Biological Diversity
- Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES)
- Conventional pollutants
- Coral reefs
- Corporate Average Fuel Economy
- Cost-benefit analysis
- Council on Environmental Quality
- Criteria air pollutants
- Critical habitat
- Cryptosporidium
- Cumulative impact
- Dams
- DDT
- Debt for nature swaps
- Deforestation
- Delaney clause
- Dingell, John D.
- Dioxin
- Dolphin-safe tuna
- Dombeck, Michael P.
- Drift-net fishing.
- Earth Day
- Earth Summit
- Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act
- Emissions trading
- Endangered Species Act
- Endangered Species Committee
- Endocrine disruptors
- Energy efficiency
- Energy Policy Act
- Environmental impact statements
- Environmental justice
- Environmental movement
- Environmental Protection Agency
- Environmental Quality Incentives Program
- Environmental riders
- Estuaries
- Eutrophication
- Everglades
- Exotic species
- Extinction
- Exxon Valdez
- Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act
- Federal Land Policy and Management Act
- Federal Water Pollution Control Act
- Filtration
- Finding of no significant impact
- Fish and Wildlife Foundation
- Flood insurance
- Flow control
- Food Quality Protection Act
- Fossil fuels
- Garbage
- General Mining Law
- Genetically modified organisms
- Global Climate Change Prevention Act
- Global economy
- Global Environment Facility
- Global warming
- Globalization
- Gore, Al
- Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument
- Grandfather clauses
- Grazing fees
- Great Lakes
- Green parties
- Greenhouse gases
- Grizzly bear
- Groundwater
- Group of Ten
- Habitat conservation plans
- Habitat loss
- Hazardous air pollutants
- Hazardous Materials Transportation Act
- Hazardous waste
- Haze
- Headwaters forest
- High-level nuclear waste
- House Commerce Committee
- House Resources Committee
- Incinerators
- Indoor air pollution
- Indoor Radon Abatement Act
- Instream flows
- Integrated pest management
- Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act
- International Monetary Fund
- International Whaling Commission
- Interstate shipments of waste
- IUCN-The World Conservation Union
- Jobs vs. the environment
- Kyoto Protocol.
- Lacey Act
- Land and Water Conservation Fund
- Landfills-- Lands Legacy Initiative
- Law of the Sea
- Lead
- Love Canal
- Low-flow toilets
- Low-level radioactive waste
- Magnuson Fishery Conservation and Management Act
- Manure
- Marine Mammal Protection Act
- Marine Plastic Pollution Research and Control Act
- Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act
- Maximum contaminant levels
- Mercury
- Miller, George
- Mining
- Mobile sources
- Montreal Protocol on Substances That Deplete the Ozone Layer
- Mountaintop removal
- MTBE
- Multiple Use
- Municipal solid waste
- Murkowski, Frank H.
- National ambient air quality standards
- National Association of Manufacturers
- National Environmental Policy Act
- National Forest Management Act
- National forests
- National Marine Fisheries Service
- National marine sanctuaries
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- National parks
- National priorities list
- National trails system
- National Water Quality Inventory
- National wilderness preservation system
- National wildlife refuge system
- Natural Resources Conservation Service
- Negligible risk
- NIMBY
- Nixon, Richard M.
- No net loss
- "No regrets"
- No surprises
- Noise pollution
- Nonattainment areas
- Nongovernmental organizations
- Non-Indigenous Aquatic Nuisance Act
- Nonpoint source pollution
- North American Free Trade Agreement
- North American Precipitation Assessment Program
- Northern spotted owl
- Nuclear energy
- Nuclear Regulatory Commission
- Nuclear waste
- Nutrients
- Occupational Safety and Health Administration
- Offshore drilling
- Oil Pollution Act
- Old-growth forests
- Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act
- Overfishing
- Ozone depletion
- Particulate matter
- Passenger pigeon
- PCBs
- Persistent organic pollutants
- Pesticides
- Pfiesteria
- Pittman-Robertson
- Point sources
- Polluter pays
- Population growth
- Port and Tanker Safety Act
- Port and Waterways Safety Act
- Precautionary principle
- Predator and pest control
- Prevention of significant deterioration
- Private property rights
- Public lands
- Public notification.
- Radon
- Rangelands
- Reagan, Ronald
- Reasonable certainty of no harm
- Recycling
- Reformulated gasoline
- Regional fishery management councils
- Regulatory impact analysis
- Regulatory relief
- Renewable energy
- Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
- Retroactive liability
- Risk assessment
- Roadless areas
- Roosevelt, Theodore
- Ruckelshaus, William
- Safe Drinking Water Act
- Safe harbor
- Salmon
- Salvage logging
- Secondary treatment
- Section 404
- Sediment pollution
- Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee
- Senate Environment and Public Works Committee
- Sierra Club
- Sikes Act
- Silent Spring
- Sludge
- Smith, Robert
- Smog
- Snail darter
- Solid Waster Disposal Act
- Sound science
- Species recovery plans
- Sport utility vehicles
- State implementation plans
- Stationary sources
- Sugar price supports
- Superfund
- Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act
- Sustainable Fisheries Act
- Sustainable use
- Swampbuster
- Three-Mile Island
- Tier 2 standards
- Tongass National Forest
- Total maximum daily loads
- Toxic Substances Control Act
- Toxics Release Inventory
- Trans-Alaskan Pipeline Authorization Act
- Transboundary pollution
- Tropical rain forests-- Turtle excluder devices
- Underground injection wells
- Underground storage tanks
- U.N. Environment Programme
- Unfunded mandates
- Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act
- Urban sprawl
- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
- U.S. Department of Agriculture
- U.S. Department of Energy
- U.S. Department of the Interior
- U.S. Forest Service
- Water pollution
- Water scarcity
- Watershed management
- Watt, James G.
- Wetlands
- Wetlands Reserve Program
- Whaling
- Wild and Scenic Rivers Act
- Wilderness Act
- Wildfires
- Windblown pollution
- Wolves
- World Bank
- World Heritage sites
- World Trade Organization
- Yellowstone National Park
- Young, Don
- Yucca Mountain
- Zebra mussels
- Zero risk.