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Abbott School Districts, – ABC television, –, , Accra (Ghana), acetylcholine, acid rain, , , , ACS. See American Cancer Society Action Now (California), Advisory Group for Federal Facilities (EPA), AEC. See Atomic Energy Commission Afghanistan, , Africa, ; DDT use in, –; hazardous waste disposal in, ; land mines in, ; population growth in, ; starvation in, . See also specific countries Africa Fighting Malaria, African Americans. See minority populations Agent Orange, – agriculture: chemical industry’s takeover of, , ; lack of education about, in developing countries, , , ; pesticide use essential to U.S., ; stewardship theories in, ; as water dependent, , . See also crops; pesticides AIDS, , air pollution, , ; from automobiles and trucks, –, ; and cancer, ; and ethical investing, ; reducing emissions contributing to, –, , , , , t, , , , –, , –; standards for outdoor, , –. See also greenhouse gases Alamogordo (New Mexico), alar, Alaska: land policy in, , ; and MTBE, ; oil spill in, , alcohol: banning, , ; diseases associated with overuse of, , , , t, , ; in gasoline, ; studies on use of, Aldicarb (Temik), – Aldrich, T., aldrin (chemical), Alexander, T., Alford, W., Allen, Scott, American Anglican, , American Arbitration Association, American Association of Petroleum Geologists, American Cancer Society (ACS), , –, , t, , American Housing Survey, American Journal of Epidemiology, – American Journal of Health Promotion, American Journal of Public Health, , , American Plastics Council, American Public Health Association, American Society for Control of Cancer (ASCC), . See also American Cancer Society Anchorage (Alaska), anecdotal information, , animal testing, , –, , ; courts’ view of, –; in toxicology, , anthrax, apartheid, Archaeological Conservancy, Archer-Daniels-Midland Co., Arco (Idaho), Are You Tough Enough? (Burford), Argonne (Chicago), Arizona, aromatic amines, arsenic, asbestos, , , , , , Asbestos School Hazard Abatement Act of , Asia: green revolution in, ; land mines in, ; population growth in, ; tobacco use in, . See also specific countries Asian Indian Americans, –, asthma, xii Atlantic Ocean, atlases. See maps Atomic Energy Acts of and , , Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), , , , . See also U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission “Atoms for Peace” speech, Austria, automobiles: catalytic converters for, ; electric, ; engine-knocking problems in, , , , , –; size of industry related to, . See also air pollution; gasoline additives; highway construction; suburbs; transportation Ayres, R., 279 INDEX Note: Page numbers followed by a “t” refer to tables “background levels” (cleanup standard), , , , Bailar, John, baking soda, Baltimore Evening Herald, Belgium, Bendectin, – Bengalis, Kimberly, benzene, , , , , – Berlin (Germany), bioavailability, biochemical pesticides, biodiversity, biological warfare facilities, . See also chemical warfare agents biomass energy, biopesticides, – birth control, birth defects, , , , birth rates. See populations Bisconti Research, , , , bisphenol A (BPA), – Blanchard, B., BLM. See U.S. Bureau of Land Management blood pressure, Boehmer, T., Bohr, Niels, Bollwage, J. Christian, , , , –, , , , , , Boston Globe, BPA (bisphenol A), – BPU. See New Jersey Board of Public Utilities Brachman, L., Brauer, J., Brazil, Britain, Brookhaven (New York), Brown, Jerry, Brown, K., – Brown, Michael, Browne, Jackson, brownfields redevelopment policy, xii, , , , –, ; bipartisan support for, –, , –, ; cleanup involved in, , , , , , , , ; defined, ; EPA and, , –, t, –, , , , –, , ; evaluation of, –; as example of elected officials and staff criterion, –; liability issues in, , ; as local issue, –, ; mayoral surveys about, ; newspaper coverage of, –; size of problems relating to, ; student tasks related to, –, ; tools for measuring costs of, . See also cleanup standards Brownson, R., Buchanan (New York), budgets: of ACS, ; of DOD, , ; of DOE, ; of EPA, , , ; for Superfund, , . See also economic factors Buffalo (New York), , Buffalo News, The Bulldozer in the Countryside (Rome), Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Burford, Anne Gorsuch, Burger, J., Bush, George H. W., , , , Bush, George W., , , ; and brownfields development, , ; federal land use policy under, , ; on nuclear power, ; on pesticides, , ; and Superfund cleanup, businesses (corporations): agricultural involvement of, , ; and brownfields redevelopment policy, , , –, , –, , –, , ; and cancer cluster investigations, t, t, ; and cancer treatments, , ; ethical investing by, –; and gasoline additives, , , t, t, –; and GM crops, –, t, , t, ; moving U.S., offshore to evade pollution restrictions, , , , ; and nuclear power, , , , t; opposition of, to pollution prevention laws, –, ; and redeveloping nuclear weapons waste sites, , t; and regime theory, –; risk assessment by, ; science funding by, ; in solid waste, ; stewardship theory in, ; and technology exuberance, . See also chemical industry; developers; nongovernment stakeholders criterion; pesticides C&A Carbone, Inc. v. the Town of Clarkston, New York, cadmium, Califano, Joseph, – California, ; fuel-related policies of, , , California Air Resources Board, California Department of Health, California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, California State Water Resources Control Board, Campbell, J., Canada, , cancer, xii, xiii; Agent Orange and, –; costs associated with, –; defined, ; diagnosis of, , ; difficulty of proving causes of, –, ; drugs for, ; interviews with scientists about, –; from nuclear power accidents, ; occupational causes of, , , , , , , , ; prevention of, , , , ; size of problems related to, ; war on, –. See also cancer clusters; specific kinds of cancer Cancer: What Everyone Should Know about It (Tobey), cancer clusters, , , –, ; defined, , ; media interest in, –, –; as random events, , ; reasons for not investigating, , canola oil, capital. See businesses...