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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...

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