RACHEL = Remote Access Chemical Hazards Electronic Library
1,1,1-Trichloroethane: #41, 43, 80, 107, 117, 123, 149, 226, 274
1,1-Dichloroethylene: #41, 110
1,2-Dichloroethane: #41
1,3-Butadiene: #120, 149
2,3,7,8-TCDD: #173, 188, 258, 264
2,3,7,8-TCDF: #258, 264
2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin SEE Dioxin
2,4,5-T: #47,117, 171, 173, 175, 212, 219, 250, 269, 280
2,4-D: #3, 5, 117, 175, 212, 250, 280, 436, 438
ABC Pest Control Co.: #258
Abortions: #271
ABUSE OF POWER: SOCIAL PERFORMANCE OF MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS: #211
Acetic acid: #117
Acetone: #107, 115, 117, 149
ACGIH SEE American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists
(ACGIH)
Acid: #193(List in breast milk)
Acid rain: #2, 10, 190, 215, 246(Amphibian decline), 291(mercury)
Acrolein: #120
Acrylates: #266
Acrylic acid: #230
Acrylonitrile: #266
Adams, Tom: #230
ADVANCED TREATMENT TECHNOLOGIES FOR DISPOSAL OF HAZARDOUS WASTE: #49
Advection: #125
Aerial photography: #158(illegal dumping), 161
Aerosol: #131
AEROSOL TECHNOLOGY; PROPERTIES, BEHAVIOR AND MEASUREMENT OF AIRBORNE
PARTICLES: #131
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR): #122,
169, 173, 213, 292, 295
Agent orange - Health effects: #73, 175, 212(List)
Agent orange: #3, 47, 73, 212, 219, 250
Agent Orange Scientific Task Force: #212
Aggregate: #192
AGRICULTURAL HERBICIDE USE AND RISK OF LYMPHOMA AND SOFT-TISSUE
SARCOMA: #250
Agriculture SEE Farming
AIMING BEFORE WE SHOOT: #205
Air pollution - Incinerators SEE Incinerators - Air pollution
Air pollution - Indoor: #42, 43, 49, 50, 78,
137
Air pollution - Industrial: #95
Air pollution - Landfills SEE Landfills - Air pollution
Air pollution - Legislation SEE Clean Air Act
Air pollution - Los Angeles: #262
Air pollution - Mercury SEE Mercury - Air pollution
Air pollution - Portland, Oregon SEE Portland, Oregon - Air
pollution
Air pollution: #297
Air Pollution Control Association: #118
Air pollution SEE ALSO Clean Air Act
AIR QUALITY IN THE DETROIT-WINDSOR/PORT HURON-SARNIA REGION: #284
AIRBORNE PARTICLES: #131, 132
Airborne particles SEE Particle size
Air-Check: #100
Alcohols: #193(list in breast milk)
Aldehydes: #193(list in breast milk)
Aldrin: #117
ALERT: TOXIC HIGHWAYS: #191
Alkenes: #193(List in breast milk)
ALL THE VICE PRESIDENT'S MEN: #251
Allied Signal: #152
ALTERNATIVE AGRICULTURE: #240
Alternative agriculture SEE Farming (No-pesticide or low-
pesticide)
Alternative Treatment Technology Information Center (ATTIC): #150, 306
Aluminum - Recycling SEE Recycling - Aluminum
American Association for the Advancement of Science: #202
American Chemical Society: #148, 207
American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH): #128
American Nuclear Energy Council: #261
American Paper Institute: #275
American Petroleum Institute: #292
American Public Health Association: #215(statement about
incinerators)
American Ref-Fuel (a joint venture with Browning Ferris and Air Products): #83
American Society for Testing Materials: #243, 316
"America's Middle-Class Meltdown": #286
AMERICA'S TRANSITION: BLUEPRINTS FOR THE 1990'S: #148,
166
Americium-241: #62
Ames, Bruce: #168, 273
Amitrole: #195
Amoco Corporation: #76, 239
Amphibians - Decline: #246
Amyl acetate: #117
Amyl alcohol: #117
Amyl chloride: #117
ANALYSES OF COMBINED MORTALITY DATA ON WORKERS AT THE HANFORD SITE: #245
"Ancient Hazards of Mercury Re-Emerge": #291
Angelus-Hudson: #141
"Annals of Law: The Asbestos Industry on Trial": #278
ANNALS OF THE EPA, PART 1: WHO POLICES THE POLICEMAN: #254
ANNUAL CANCER STATISTICS REVIEW INCLUDING CANCER TRENDS: #130
Antimony: #236
"Application of Hydrogeology to the Selection of Refuse Disposal Sites": #90
Aqua regia: #117
Aquifer: #163
"Arctic Ozone Hole Unexpectedly Severe": #152
ARE WE CLEANING UP?: #86, 150,
166, 172
"Are We Winning the Fight Against Cancer?" An Epidemiological Assessment": #266
Arise Foundation Antipollution Committee: #50
Army incinerators SEE Incinerators - Military
Aromatic hydrocarbons: #117, 193(List
in breast milk)
Aromatic hydrocarbons SEE ALSO Polycyclic aromatic
hydrocarbons
Arsenic: #20, 92, 95, 131, 140, 143, 146, 155, 162, 173, 191, 217, 220, 225, 236, 274
Asbestos - Above ground storage: #278
Asbestos - Cancer SEE Mesothelioma
Asbestos: #3, (toys); 49, 68, 74(landfills), 278
ASBESTOS ABATEMENT: A GUIDE TO SAFE ABATEMENT: #68
Asbestosis: #278
Ash, Incinerator SEE Incinerators - Ash
Aspartame SEE Nutrasweet
ASSESSING THE THREAT OF TOXIC WASTE SITES: #271(text)
Assimilative capacity: #187
"Association Between Clinical Symptoms and Lymphocyte Abnormalities in a Population with
Chronic Domestic Exposure to Industrial Solvent- Contaminated Domestic Water Supply and a
High Incidence of Leukaemia": #123
"Association between Soft Tissue Sarcomas and Exposure to Phenoxyacetic Acids -- A New
Case-referent study": #175, 250
"Association of Biorefractories in Drinking Water and Body Burden in People": #149
"Association of Human Congenital Cardiac Malformations and Drinking Water Contaminants":
#267
"Asthma - United States, 1980-1987": #218
Asthma: #197, 199, 218(causes)
ASTHMA: #218
Atomic bombs: #200, 202(tests)
Atomic bombs SEE ALSO Hiroshima; Nagaaki
Atomic Energy Commission: #200, 202
"Atomic Regulators Seek Safeguards Against Bombs": #252
Atrazin(e): #8
ATSDR: SEE Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease
Registry
ATTIC SEE Alternative Treatment Technology Information
Center
Autoclave - Medical waste SEE Medical waste - Autoclave
Automotive repair firms: #53
AVOIDING FAILURE OF LEACHATE COLLECTION AND CAP DRAINAGE SYSTEMS: #119
Babylon, N.Y. Incinerator: #307
BACKGROUND DOCUMENT ON BOTTOM LINER PERFORMANCE IN DOUBLE-LINED
LANDFILLS AND SURFACE IMPOUNDMENTS: #26, 116
Bad boy laws: #288, 298
Baghouse SEE Incinerators - Scrubbers - Fabric
Bailar, John III: #219
Baker, Dean B.: #313
Bamako Convention: #257
BAMAKO CONVENTION ON THE BAN OF THE IMPORT INTO AFRICA AND THE CONTROL
OF TRANSBOUNDARY MOVEMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF HAZARDOUS WASTES
WITHIN AFRICA: #257
Banbury Center: #275
Banbury Conference: #248
BaP SEE Benzo(a)pyrene
Barnwell, S.C.: #69
Basel Convention: #257
BASEL CONVENTION ON THE CONTROL OF TRANSBOUNDARY MOVEMENTS OF
HAZARDOUS WASTES AND THEIR DISPOSAL: #257
BASF (a German conglomerate): #80, 101, 171
Batteries, Lead-acid - Disposal: #251, 253
Bayley Mental Development Index: #213
BCD (chemical dechlorination process): #311
BCEE SEE bis-Chloroethyl ether
BDAT SEE Best demonstrated available technology (BDAT)
Beatty, Nv.: #69
Bechtel Corporation: #239
"Behavioral Effects in Monkeys Exposed to 2,3,7,8-TCCD Transmitted Maternally During
Gestation and for Four Months of Nursing": #249
Below regulatory concern SEE Radioactive waste - Below regulatory
concern
Benzene: #24, 41, 46, 79, 95,
117, 120, 123, 125, 127, 147, 149, 193 (breast milk), 226(Landfills), 234, 266, 274, 276
Benzidine: #128
Benzo(a)pyrene (BaP): #82, 277
Berlin Township, N.J.: #289
Beryllium: #95, 143, 236
Best available technology SEE Best demonstrated available
technology
Best demonstrated available technology (BDAT): #116, #208
Best demonstrated available technology SEE ALSO State of the
art
beta-Naphthalamine: #127
BEYOND 40PERCENT, RECORD-SETTING RECYCLING AND
COMPOSTING PROGRAMS: #289
BFI SEE Browning Ferris Industries
Bhopal accident: #11, 58, 170, 211
BHOPAL SYNDROME: PESTICIDES, ENVIRONMENT, AND HEALTH: #170
BIENNIAL (SIXTH) REPORT ON GREAT LAKES WATER QUALITY: #284
"Big Bucks for Executives Finds Some Favor Abroad": #286
Bikini A-bomb tests SEE Atomic bombs
Billings Energy Corp: #252
Biltmore-Getz Pest Control: #258
Bioaccumulation of toxic substances: #191, 198(mercury), 219(dioxin), 225, 234, 284
Biodegradable plastic SEE Plastics - Biodegradable
Biomass (energy source): #252
Bioremediation of hazardous substances: #306
Biotechnology SEE Genetic engineering
Birnbaum, Linda: #270
Birth defects - Hazardous waste dumps: #313
Birth defects: #2, 33, 61, 67(labels), 73(dioxin), 90(landfill leachate), 133, 144(PCB), 146, 149, 212(Agent Orange), 250, #267 (TCE), 271, 276, 279, 290(sexual behavior)
Birth weight, Low: #104, 115, 133, 146, 149, 276
bis (2-dichloroethyl) ether: #115
bis (2-ethylhexyl) phthalate: #258, 264
"Blink Reflex Latency after Exposure to Trichloroethylene in Well Water": #267
"Blood Levels for Persons Ages 6 Months - 74 Years, United States, 1976-80": #213
Bonaparte, Rudolph: #316
Brain cancer SEE Cancer - Brain
"Brain Tumors and Occupational Risk Factors: A Review": #266, 267
"Brain Tumors in Children and Occupational Exposure of Parents": #267
BRC SEE below regulatory concern
BREAKING DOWN THE DEGRADABLE PLASTICS SCAM: #216
Breast cancer SEE Cancer - Breast
Breast milk: #38, 146, 193, 207, 225
Bretthauer, Erich W.: #310
Brimelow, Peter: #292, 315
Brody, Jane: #240
Bromine: #285
Bromine liquid: #117
Bromofluorocarbon SEE Halon
Brown, Ken: #241
Brown, Kirk: #90
Brown, T.C.: #315
Browner, Carol M.: #316
Browning Ferris Industries: #27, 34, 40, 41, 48, 53, 66, 88, 89, 91,
141, 164(megafill), 228, 231, 258, 268, 307
Brundtland, Gro Harlem: #256(Brundtland commission)
Bubble rules - Clean air act SEE Clean air act - Bubble rules
Bukowski, Grace: #261
Bulova, Sam: #68
Buntrock, Dean L.: #72, 220, 268, 299
Bureau of Indian Affairs: #239
"Burying Trash in Big Holes - on the Balance Sheet": #307
"Bush's Polluter Protectionism Isn't Pro-Business": #293
Business Council for Sustainable Development: #297, 305, 309
Butyl acetate: #117
"Cacosmia and Neurobehavioral Dysfunction Associated with Occupational Exposure to Mixtures
of Organic Solvents": #137
Cacosmia SEE Smell, Sense of
Cadmium: #20, 32, 52, 92, 93,
131, 140, 143, 146, 155, 162, 169 (sources and health effects), 173, 179, 190, 191, 217, 220, 225, 228, 235236,
258, 274
"Cadmium and Lead in Bio-Medical Waste Incinerators": #179
Calgon Corporation: #80
California Air Resources Board: #179, 226
Calvert City, Ky.: #132
CAMEO (Computer-aided Management of Emergency Operations): #18
Campaign for Clean Air: #262
Campaign for Sovereignty: #239
"Can Burrowing Animals Cause Groundwater Contamination?": #109
Cancer - Agent Orange: #212
Cancer - Asbestos SEE Mesothelioma
Cancer - Brain - Children: #266
Cancer - Brain: #245, 266, 273
Cancer - Breast: #265, 279
Cancer - Causes: #168, 234, 235
Cancer - Causes SEE ALSO Carcinogens
Cancer - Deaths (statistics): #130, 222
Cancer - Diesel fumes: #120
Cancer - Dioxin: #73, 171, 173, 175, 219, 269, 270, 275, 310
Cancer - Dogs: #250
Cancer - Hazardous substances - Dump sites: #271, 274
Cancer - Herbicides SEE Herbicides
Cancer - Hodgkins disease: #212
Cancer - Incidence: #222
Cancer - Industry: #168, 178
Cancer - Landfill leachate SEE Landfills - Leachate
Cancer - Latency period: #115
Cancer - Lawn chemicals: #3, 5
Cancer - Lawn chemicals SEE ALSO Pesticides - Cancer
Cancer - Leukemia: #38, 45, 62, 63, 80(drinking water), 115(Lipari), 123(drinking water), 244(low-level
radiation), 245, 267(TCE)
Cancer - Lung: #115
Cancer - Lymphomas: #250
Cancer - Melanoma: #70
Cancer - Melanoma SEE ALSO Ozone layer
Cancer - Mesothelioma: #278
Cancer - Myeloid (bone marrow): #245
Cancer - Neoplasms: #35
Cancer - Non-Hodgkins lymphoma: #3, 5, 127, 212,
250
Cancer - Pesticides SEE Pesticides - Cancer; Herbicides
Cancer - Pets: #250
Cancer - Prevention: #266
Cancer - Radiation: #184, 244, 245
Cancer - Radon : #100
Cancer - Research: #265
Cancer - Sarcomas (soft tissue): #250
Cancer - Superfund sites: #127
Cancer - Thyroid: #317
Cancer - Uranium mines: #201
Cancer: #9, 39, 130(statistics), 222, 273(among chemists), 318
"Cancer and Birth Defects Near the Drake Superfund Site, Pennsylvania": #127
"Cancer and Drinking Water in Louisiana": #168
"Cancer by Industry: Analysis of a Population-Based Cancer Registry With and Emphasis on
Blue-Collar Workers": #274
Cancer Establishment: #266
"Cancer in Populations Living Near Nuclear Facilities": #245
Cancer Mortality Among Chemists: #273
"Cancer Mortality Among Workers in Chemical Plant Contaminated with Dioxin": #270
"Cancer Mortality in U.S. Counties with Chemical Industries": #274
"Cancer Mortality in U.S. Counties with Hazardous Waste Sites and Ground Water Pollution":
#127
"Cancer Mortality in Workers Exposed to 2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin": #219
"Cancer Mortality in Workers Exposed to 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin": #270
"Cancer Near Nuclear Installations": #245
Cancer series: #222(Part 1)
CANCER STATISTICS REVIEW: 1973-1987: #222, 265
CANCER STATISTICS REVIEW 1973-1988: #266
CAP SEE Capacity Assurance Plan
Capacity assurance: #141, 151
Capacity Assurance Plan: #142
"Capping Future Costs": #109
Caps - Hazardous substances dump sites SEE Hazardous substances -
Dump sites - Caps;
Caps - Landfills SEE Landfills - Caps
CAPS, THE LONG-HAUL: #109
Carbaryl: #149
Carbon dioxide: #155, 300, 301
Carbon disulfide: #149
Carbon tetrachloride: #38, 41, 43, 80, 107,
117, 149, 193(breast milk), 226, 250, 258, 266
CARCINOGENIC EFFECTS OF EXPOSURE TO DIESEL EXHAUST: #120
"Carcinogenic Risk Estimation": #168
Carcinogens - Disposal: #12
Carcinogens: #6, 38, 39(formaldehyde), #43(chloroform), #46 (chlordane), 61(pesticides), 67(labels), 68(asbestos), 84 (chlorine), 90(landfill leachate), #104(Love Canal), 110, 120(diesel fumes), 127, 144(PCB), 149, 269(dioxin), 270(dioxin), 275(dioxin)
Carcinogens SEE ALSO Cancer and related headings
"Cardiac Teratogenesis of Trichloroethylene and Dichloroethylene in a Mammalian Model": #267
CARE: #239
Carlo, George L.: #275
Carry All Disposal: #141
"Case Control Study of Canine Malignant Lymphoma": #250
"Case Control Study of Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma and the Herbicide 2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic
Acid (2,4-D) in Eastern Nebraska": #250
Castor oil: #117
Caufield, Catherine: #201, 202
"Causes of Cancer: Quantitative Estimates of Avoidable Risks of Cancer in the United States
Today": #168
"Causes of Death Among Female Chemists": #273
CBO STAFF MEMORANDUM: MEASURING THE DISTRIBUTION OF INCOME GAINS: #286
CBW SEE Chemical-biological warfare
CDC SEE Centers for Disease Control
CECOS International (subsidiary of Browning-Ferris): #27, 41, 180
Celebrating EPA's Birthday: #209(Part 1), 210(Part 2)
Cell damage - Dioxin: #270
Cement: #192, 243(quality), 314(dioxin)
CEMENT KILN INCINERATION OF HAZARDOUS WASTE: #206,
243
"Cement Kilns 1990": #242
"Cement Kilns 1991": #314
Cement kilns (Hazardous substances incinerators) SEE Hazardous
substances - Incineration - Cement kilns; Hazardous substances -
Recycling;
Center for Biology of Natural Systems (Queens College in Flushing, N.Y.): #289
Center for Environmental Research Information: #34
Center for the Biology of Natural Systems (CBNS): #121, 167
Centers for Disease Control: #122(Regions with contact people), 127, 189
CEQ SEE Council on Environmental Quality
CERCLA SEE Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation
and Liability Act
Cesium: #62, 190, 201(Cesium -137), 314(cement)
CFCs SEE Chlorofluorocarbons
CH2M, (Oregon): #315
CHAIN REACTION: THE IMPACT OF RACE, RIGHTS, AND TAXES ON AMERICAN
POLITICS: #286
Chambers Development Co.: #268, 299, 307
CHANGING COURSE: A GLOBAL BUSINESS PERSPECTIVE ON DEVELOPMENT AND THE
ENVIRONMENT: #296, 297, 305, 309
"Changing View of Cancer: Something to Live With": #222
CHARACTERIZATION OF MUNICIPAL WASTE COMBUSTION ASH, ASH EXTRACTS, AND
LEACHATES: #190
Chelating agent SEE EDTA pills
Chem Nuclear Systems, Inc.: #261
Chemical dump sites SEE Hazardous substances - Dump sites
CHEMICAL EXPOSURES: LOW LEVELS, HIGH STAKES: #220
CHEMICAL HAZARDS: #38
Chemical industry: #274
Chemical Industry Institute of Technology (CIIT): #39
Chemical Manufacturers Association: #292
Chemical plants - Pollution: #178(list)
Chemical pollution SEE Hazardous substances
Chemical Regulation series: #234(Part 1), 235(Part 2)
CHEMICAL SENSITIVITY :#220
Chemical warfare SEE Chemical-biological warfare (CBW)
Chemical Waste Management, Inc. - Incinerators: #280, 281, 282, 283, 288
Chemical Waste Management Inc.: #14, 47, 60, 64,
89, 180, 255
"Chemical Weapons Demilitarization and Disposal: the Army's Experience at Johnston Atoll
Chemical Disposal System": #283
Chemical-biological warfare (CBW): #280, 283
"Chemically Induced Alterations in Sexual Development: The Wildlife/Human Connection": #263
Chemicals: #273, 274
Chemicals SEE ALSO Hazardous substances - Dump sites -
Components
CHEMISTRY OF CEMENT AND CONCRETE: #192
Chemists: #273
Chemlawn:#258
Chem-Security of Canada: #180
Chem-Waste SEE Chemical Waste Management, Inc.
Chernobyl accident: #64, 185
"Childhood Lead Poisoning... an Eradicable Disease": #294
"Childhood Leukemia and Parents' Occupational and Home Exposures": #38
Chlor-alkali industry: #248
Chlordane: #46, 170
Chlorinated hydrocarbons SEE Halogenated hydrocarbons
Chlorinated phenoxy herbicide SEE Agent Orange
Chlorinated solvents: #163
Chlorinated water: #43, 84(cancer)
Chlorine - Ban: #204, 225, 228, 284, 290
Chlorine: #149, 217, 219, 230, 235, 248, 269, 285
Chlorine industry: #275
Chlorine Institute: #248, 275
Chlorine liquid: #117
Chlorobenzene: #117
Chloroethyl ether (BCEE) SEE bis-(2-chloroethyl) ether
Chlorofluorocarbons: #3, 6, 11, 60, 140,
149, 152, 152(alternatives), 205
Chlorofluorocarbons SEE ALSO Ozone layer
Chloroform: #43, 79, 107, 117, 123, 128, 149, 226, 250, 269, 274, 276
Chloroform SEE ALSO Carcinogens
Chloromethane: #250
Chlorophenol: #266
Chloroprene: #149
Chlorosilanes: #230
Chlorosulfonic acid: #117
CHRIS (Chemical Hazard Response Information Service): #6
Chromium: #32, 33, 92, 131, 140, 143, 217, 236, 258, 274
CHRONICLE OF PHILANTHROPY: #181
Ciba-Geigy: #8, 33, 139
CIIT SEE Chemical Industry Institute of Technology
CIRCLE OF POISON: #170
CITIZEN ACTION: AN OUNCE OF PREVENTION [A CITIZENS' SERIES ON LEAKING
UNDERGROUND STORAGE TANKS]: #229
Citizen action groups: #296, 298
Citizen action groups SEE ALSO Environmental groups
Citizen Alert: #261
Citizen enforcement: #298
Citizens Clearinghouse for Hazardous Waste: #49, 94, 135, 156, 159, 170 (attack by Union Carbide), 254
CITIZEN'S GUIDE FOR COMMUNITY HEALTH STUDIES: #68
CITIZENS TOXICS AUDIT MANUAL: #159
CITIZEN'S TOXICS PREVENTION MANUAL ON THE NEIGHBORHOOD INSPECTION: #135
CITIZENS TOXICS PROTECTION MANUAL: #59, 159
Civil disobedience: #230, 255(East
Liverpool, Ohio), 262
Clay: #125
Clay liners for landfills SEE Landfills - Liners - Clay
Clean air act - Bubble rules: #11
Clean Air Act - Emissions increase: #293
Clean Air Act: #142, 215, 235(Pollution credits), 251
Clean Production: #268
Clean Sites, Inc.: #7
Clean Water Act: #79, 111, 142
Clean Water Action: #241
Cleaning compounds: #137
CLEANING UP: SUPERFUND'S PROBLEMS CAN BE SOLVED: #160, 163, 271
Cleanup Information Bulletin Board: #306
Climate: #145, 152, 300, 301
Closed loop technology: #186
Closed loop technology SEE ALSO Zero discharge
CLOSING CIRCLE: #121
Cloverleaf, Tx: #297
CLU-IN SEE Cleanup Information Bulletin Board
"Clusters of Cancer Mortality in New Jersey Municipalities": #127,
168
CO2 SEE Carbon dioxide
Coal burning power plants - Mercury SEE Mercury - Air
pollution
Coal burning power plants: #10, 20, 158
Coal SEE Fuels, Fossil
Coal tar: #266
Coal-burning power plants - Radioactive waste SEE Radioactive waste -
Coal- burning power plants
Coalition for Health Concern: #132
Cobalt: #10, 62(cobalt-60)
Codex Alimentarius: #304
Cogan, Douglas: #300, 301
Cogeneration: #239
Collette, Will: #138
Columbiana County Port Authority: #287, 288
Combustion Engineering: #83, 121
COMING CLEAN: SUPERFUND PROBLEMS CAN BE SOLVED: #158
Command and control (trade restriction): #305
Committee for Nuclear Responsibility: #106, 155
common)
Commoner, Barry: #30, 45, 61, 107, 108, 121, 124, 147, 196, 198, 216
Community right to know act SEE Right to Know act
"Comparative Dermal Absorption of 2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin and Three
Polychlorinated Dibenzofurans": #120
COMPENDIUM OF SUPERFUND PROGRAM PUBLICATIONS: #306
COMPETITIVE ANALYSIS OF HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT: #238
COMPLEX CLEANUP: THE ENVIRONMENTAL LEGACY OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS
PRODUCTION: #224
Composting: #31, 108
Composting plants: #8, #108(emissions)
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA) (Amended
to Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act): #24, 65, 151, 157, 160, 161, 272, 292
Computer network: #129(Environet)
Computer-aided Management of Emergency Operations SEE CAMEO
Computers and software: #129
"Concerns Mount Over Operating Methods of Plants that Incinerate Toxic Waste": #280, 281
Conflict of interest: #298
Connett, Paul and Ellen: #75, 167, 228, 315
Conscientious Employee Protection Act: #42
Conscientious Employee Protection Act SEE ALSO Whistle
Blowers
Conservation Foundation: #110
Containment systems for landfills SEE Landfills - Containment
systems
"Contaminant Concentrations and Toxicity of Sea-surface Microlayer Near Los Angeles,
California": #277
CONTAMINATION OF NEW ENGLAND'S FISH AND SHELLFISH: #32.
CONTROLLING AIRBORNE PARTICLES: #131
"Controversy at Love Canal": #104
Copper: #32
Copper smelters: #2
"Corporate Influence on Threshold Limit Values": #128
CORPORATION AND THE ECONOMY: #309
Corporations - Accountability SEE Corporations - Liability
Corporations - Charters: #309
Corporations - Criminal activities: #309, 315
Corporations - Directors: #309
Corporations - Legal status: #308, 309,
316
Corporations - Liabilities: #308, 309
Corporations - Lobbyists: #309
Corporations - Regulation: #309
Cost benefit analysis SEE Risk benefit analysis
Cost pricing SEE Full cost pricing
Costner, Pat: #233, 255, 280, 283, 311, 312, 318
"Costs of L.I. Incinerators Rise With Trash Shortage": #307
Council on Competitiveness: #251, 293, 315
Council on Environmental Quality: #70, 214
Cradle to Grave management for toxic wastes SEE Hazardous
substances - Disposal - Records
Crazy Horse Landfill: #79
Creditor-Debtor nation: #242
Creosote: #163
Cresol: #286
Crime SEE Corporations - Crime; Organized crime
"Critical Review of EPA's Plan to Establish a Dry Scrubber Technology Standard for Municipal
Solid Waste Incinerators": #118
Crop rotation: #240
Crossroads participants: #200
CSX Transportation: #230
Cucina, Hope: #289
CUTTING CHEMICAL WASTES: #33
CWMI SEE Chemical Waste Management, Inc.
Cyclic compounds: #193(List in breast milk)
Cyclohexanol: #117
Cyclohexanone: #117
Daimler-Benz automaker: #252
DANGEROUS PROPERTIES OF INDUSTRIAL MATERIALS: #33,
34, 113
Darcy's law: #125
Davis, Devra Lee: #266
DDD: #264
DDE: #264, 265, 279
DDT: #30, 107, 117, 144, 146, 170, 193, 225, 234, 264, 265, 277, 279, 304
DEADLY DECEIT: #184, 185
DEADLY DEFENSE: MILITARY RADIOACTIVE LANDFILLS: #124,
227
DEALING WITH MILITARY TOXICS: #227
Death rates: #64
"Death-Certificate Case-Control Study of Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma and Occupation in Men in
North Carolina": #274
Debtor nation SEE Creditor-Debtor nation
Dechlorination of toxic substances SEE Hazardous substances -
Chemical detoxification; BCD
DECOMMISSIONING: NUCLEAR POWER'S MISSING LINK: #221
Decommissioning of nuclear power plants SEE Nuclear Power Plants -
Decommissioning
Deep well injection of hazardous substances SEE Hazardous substances
- Disposal - Deep injection wells
Defense Environmental Restoration Program (DERP): #23, 227
Degree of hazard ranking system: #113
DEHP SEE bis-(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate
DELICATE BALANCE: #94
Deodorizers, Room: #43
Department of Energy (U.S.) properties: #38, 124
"Derived from" rule SEE Hazardous substances - "Derived from"
rule
DERP SEE Defense Environmental Restoration Program
DES SEE Diethylstilbestrol
"Design and Operating Problems of Hazardous Waste Incinerators": #105
"Designing and Maintaining Landfill Caps for the Long Haul": #109
Destruction/removal efficiency (DRE): #280, 312, 318
Detergents: #98, 117
"Determinants of Mortality in an Industrial Population": #273
Detoxification, Linguistic SEE Linguistic detoxification
DEVELOPMENT AND PILOT TEST OF AN INTENSIVE MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE
RECYCLING SYSTEM FOR THE TOWN OF EAST HAMPTON: #108
"Development Effects of Dichloroacetic Acid in Long-Evans Rats": #267
"Development of a Laboratory Test Method for Estimating Leachate Quality from Municipal
Incinerator Ash Monofills": #190
Di-(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate SEE bis-(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate
Diamond Shamrock: #250
Dibenzofurans: #31, 249
Dibromochloropropane: #128
Dichlorobenzene: #149
Dichloromethane: #107, 149
Dichloromonofluoromethane: #128
Dicofol: #265
"Did Westinghouse Keep Mum on PCB's?": #295
Dieldrin: #117, 146, 193, 264
Diesel exhaust: #120, 266
Diethyl ether: #107
Diethylstilbestrol: #263
Dietrich, Gary: #210(Dietrich's Law)
Diffusion: #125
"Diffusive Contaminant Transport in Natural Clay: A Field Example and Implications for Clay-
Lined Waste Disposal Sites": #125
DILEMMA OF SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT: #55
Dimethyl sulfate: #128
Dimethylbenzene: #149
Dinitrotoluene: #149
Dinoseb: #2
Dioxane: #128
"Dioxin - When Was the Danger Known?": #219
"Dioxin": #173
DIOXIN HAZARDS TO FISH, WILDLIFE AND INVERTEBRATES: #249
Dioxin series: #171(Part 1), 173(Part
2), 175(Part 3), 219(Part 4)
"Dioxin Toxicity: New Studies Prompt Debate, Regulatory Action": #275
DIOXIN TREATMENT TECHNOLOGIES: BACKGROUND PAPER: #280, 311
Dioxins - Cancer SEE Cancer - Dioxin
Dioxins - Cell damage SEE Cell damage - Dioxin
Dioxins - Cement SEE Cement
Dioxins - Health effects: # 171, 173,
175, 212, 249, 269,270, 279, 283, 290, 310
Dioxins - Health effects SEE ALSO Cancer - Dioxin
Dioxins - Immune system: #310
Dioxins - Incineration: #311, 312
Dioxins - Lawsuits: #275
Dioxins - Production: #173
Dioxins - Safe dose: #173, 219, 248, 311
Dioxins - Sexual development effects SEE Sexual development -
Effects of dioxin
Dioxins - Skin absorption: #120
Dioxins - Threshold levels: #270
Dioxins - Toxicity: #171, 173, 175, 219, 275, 310
Dioxins - Wildlife: #249, 310
Dioxins: #5, 10, 15, 21, 31,
34, 45, 47, 52, 73,
75, 82, 143, 146, 171,
173, 175, 179, 187, 198, 215, 225, 234, 248(risk assessment), 249, 269,
270, 280, 290, 310, 311
Diphenylamine (DPA): #33
Dipropylene oxide methyl ether: #128
DISEASES OF OCCUPATIONS: #97
Disposable items: #228(medical)
"Distribution of Non-Hodgkin's Lymphomas in the United States Between 1950and 1975": #250
Dockery, Douglas: #134, 136
DOE SEE Department of Energy (U.S.)
"Dog Days at Company Headquarters": #259
Dogs - Cancer SEE Cancer - Dogs
Doll, Richard: #266
Dow Chemical Company: #97, 128, 142, 219, 250, 267, 269
"Down in the Dumps": #307
DPA SEE Diphenylamine
DRAFT MINIMUM TECHNOLOGY GUIDANCE ON DOUBLE-LINER SYSTEMS FOR
LANDFILLS AND SURFACE IMPOUNDMENTS: #26
DRAFT MINIMUM TECHNOLOGY GUIDANCE ON SINGLE LINER SYSTEMS FOR
LANDFILLS, SURFACE IMPOUNDMENTS AND WASTE PILES: #26
Drake Chemical Company: #127
DRE SEE Destruction/removal efficiency (DRE)
DRINKING WATER CONTAMINATION AND THE INCIDENCE OF LEUKEMIA: #80
Drinking water SEE Lead - Drinking water; Water supply; Water -
Groundwater
Drought: #301
Dry cleaners: #53, 117
Dumpbusters: #51
DUMPING IN DIXIE: #238
DuPont, E.I., de Nemours & Company: #3, 97, 124, 128, 152, 185, 187, 188, 205246,
259
Dursban: #128
Dust: #131, 148(cement kiln)
Dyes: #266
E THE ENVIRONMENTAL MAGAZINE: #258
Eagle Mountain Project (megafill): #164
EAI SEE Enterprise for Americas Initiative
EARTH IN THE BALANCE: ECOLOGY AND THE HUMAN SPIRIT: #307
EARTH IN TRANSITION: PATTERNS AND PROCESSES OF BIOTIC IMPOVERISHMENT: #300
"Earthly Necessities - A New Environmentalism for the 1990's":
#238
East Hampton, N.Y.: #31, 108, 121
East Liverpool, Ohio, hazardous waste incinerator SEE WTI Incinerator,
East Liverpool, Ohio
Eastern Resources Management Co.: #103
ECOLOGICAL ILLNESS LAW REPORT: #53, 94
Ecological illness SEE Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
syndrome
Econet: #304
"Economic Considerations in Controlling Mercury Pollution": #291
ECONOMIC REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT, 1991: #286
Economy: #286
ECRA SEE Environmental Cleanup Responsibility Act
EDB SEE Ethylene dibromide
EDF SEE Environmental Defense Fund
EDTA pills: #253(chelating agent)
"Effects of Exposure to PCBs and Related Compounds on Growth and Activity in Children": #295
"Effects of Inhalable Particles on Respiratory Health of Children": #134
Electromagnetic fields: #266
Electrostatic precipitators SEE Incinerators - Electrostatic
precipitators
"Elevated Concrete Buildings for Long-term Management of Hazardous Wastes": #150
Embryotoxins: #104
Emelle, AL: #47, 89, 143, 156
Emergency response plans: #18, 21,
26
Emergency response plans SEE ALSO National Response Center
hotline
Emissions increase rule SEE Clean air act - Emissions increase
rule
Endangered species: #137, 144, 256
Endocrine system: #263(list of chemicals which disturb the system),
264(list of chemicals which disrupt this system), 310
Endrin: #170
Energy - Conservation: #223
Energy - Hydrogen SEE Hydrogen (energy source)
Energy and Environmental Research Corporation: #312
Energy, Nuclear SEE Nuclear energy
Energy production SEE Incinerators - Energy production
Energy recovery through incineration SEE Incinerators - Municipal
waste
Energy, Solar: #183, 252, 301
"Engineering Management of MSW Ashes: Field Empirical Observations of Concrete- Like
Characteristics": #189, 191
ENSCO (waste incinerator in Arkansas): #180, 233, 282
Enterprise for the Americas Initiative: #304
"Entomologists Wane as Insects Wax": #247
Environet: #129, 135
Environment - Problems: #16, 30, 67, 102, 195, 196, 203, 235
Environment Canada: #146
"Environment: Environmental Protection Agency": #148, 166
ENVIRONMENT REPORTER: #310
ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION: #216
Environmental Cleanup Responsibility Act (ECRA): #65
Environmental Defense Fund: #103, 148, 203, 292
ENVIRONMENTAL EPIDEMIOLOGY V.1: PUBLIC HEALTH AND
HAZARDOUS WASTES: #267, 271,
272, 274, 276, 292, 293, 295, 313
Environmental Exchange: #296, 297
Environmental groups: #30, 54, 79(superfund grants), 95, 129, 138, 143, 153, 159, 181(grants), 203, 206, 211(and waste industry)
Environmental groups SEE ALSO Individual groups, such as
Greenpeace
Environmental Health Network: #240, 292
"Environmental Hormone" (dioxin): #269, 270
Environmental hypersensitivity SEE Multiple chemical sensitivity
syndrome
"Environmental Implications of Incineration of Municipal Solid Waste and Ash Disposal": #275
Environmental Information Photographic Interpretation Center: #161
ENVIRONMENTAL NEUROTOXICITY: #318
ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS: LESSONS FROM THE GRASSROOTS: #153
Environmental problems SEE Environment - Problems
Environmental Protection Agency - U.S. - Health Effects Research Laboratory: #127
Environmental Protection Agency - U.S. - List of companies disbarred: #25
Environmental Protection Agency - U.S. - Permits: #287, 298
Environmental Protection Agency - U.S.: #17, 21, 65, 110,
118 (incinerator regulations), 148, 151, 209, 210, 275(position on dioxin), 287, 298, 315, 318
"Environmental Protection Agency Pollution Strategy": #236
Environmental Research Foundation: #111, 212, 240, 314(new address)
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE: #240
Environmental Support Center: #240
ENVIRONMENTAL TOBACCO SMOKE: MEASURING EXPOSURE AND ASSESSING HEALTH
EFFECTS: #58
Environmental tobacco smoke SEE Smoking, Passive
ENVIRONMENTALLY SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: #256, 297
Envirosafe Services: #180
Enzymes: #164
EP TOX TEST SEE Extraction Procedure Toxicity Test
EP toxicity test: #162, 190, 191
EPA SEE Environmental Protection Agency - U.S.
"EPA Waste Policy Threatens Health": #258
EPA's Dioxin Reassessment series: #269(Part 1), 270(Part 2)
Epichlorhydrin: #149
"Epidemiological Study of the Mortality of British Chemists": #273
Epley Associates: #261
Epstein, Samuel: #168
Erbon: #219
Erosion - Soil SEE Soil - Erosion
ESSENTIAL ASTHMA BOOK: #218
"Establishing a Health Based Standard for Lead in Residential Soils": #189
"Estimation of the Risk Associated with Organic Constituents of Hazardous and Municipal Waste
Landfill Leachates": #90
Estrogen: #265
Ethanolamine: #128
Ethics in Government Act: #254
Ethyl alcohol: #117
Ethyl benzene: #24, 43, 137
Ethyl chloride: #117
Ethyl ether: #77
Ethylene: #120
Ethylene chloride: #117
Ethylene dibromide: #128, 226
Ethylene dichloride: #128, 226
Ethylene glycol: #128
Ethylene oxide: #149
Ethylene thiourea: #149
ETS (environmental tobacco smoke) SEE Smoking, Passive
Everglades: #291
EVERYBODY'S GUIDE TO SMALL CLAIMS COURT: #181
EVERYONE'S BACKYARD: #258, 288
EWK Consultants: #206
EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF CRITICAL FUNDAMENTAL ISSUES IN HAZARDOUS
WASTE INCINERATION: #280, 312
"Experts Clash over Cancer Data": #265, 266
Exponential growth SEE Growth
Export restrictions: #303
Exportation of garbage, hazardous substances SEE Garbage -
Export; Hazardous substances - Export
Exposure assessment SEE Risk benefit analysis
"Exposure to Certain Pesticides May Pose Real Carcinogenic Risk": #247
"Exposure to Dioxins and Dibenzofurans Through the Consumption of Fish": #219
"Exposure to Dioxins as a Risk Factor for Soft Tissue Sarcomas: A Population- Based Case-
Control Study": #250
Extinction of species SEE Endangered species
"Extinction: the PCB Threat to Marine Mammals": #144
Extraction Procedure Toxicity Test: #75, 92
Eyeglasses: #62
FACING AMERICA'S TRASH: WHAT NEXT FOR MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE: #238
Falls Township, Pa. incinerator: #140
Farland, William H.: #310
Farmer, Joseph: #70
Farming (no-pesticide or low-pesticide): #240
"FDA Bans Lead from Home Paints": #294
"Fed Gives New Evidence of 80'sGains by the Richest": #286
Ferry, W.H.: #309
Fetotoxins SEE Embryotoxins
Fiber - Size: #74
Fiberglass: #74
Fickean diffusion SEE Diffusion
"Field Behavior of Double-Liner Systems": #316
FINAL REPORT, WASTE MANAGEMENT, INC. (San Diego Report): #299
FINDING THE RX FOR MANAGING MEDICAL WASTES: #228
Fine particles SEE Particle size
Fine Particles series: #131(Part 1), 132(Part 2), 134(Part 3), 136 (Part 4), 162(Part 5)
FINE PARTICULATE POLLUTION, A REPORT OF THE UNITED NATIONS ECONOMIC
COMMISSION FOR EUROPE: #131
Fingerhut, Marilyn: #219
Firestone Tire and Rubber Co.: #79
"Firm Admits to Price Fixing in Trash Business": #141
Fish - Pollution: #10, 13, 32, 61, 146,
154, 198(mercury), 291 (mercury)
Flexible membrane liners SEE Landfills - Liners -Flexible
membrane
Florio, James (Representative): #103
Flow control - Legislation: #299
Flow control: #307
Fluorides: #140
FML SEE Landfills - Liners - Flexible Membrane
Food - Additives: #195, 218
Food - Irradiation: #9, 68
Food - Packaging SEE Polyvinyl chloride
"Food and Agriculture Policy": #304
Food and Drug Administration: #195(tolerance limits)
Food chain - Biomagnification of toxic substances SEE Bioaccumulation
of toxic substances
Food chain: #246
Food supply - Pesticides SEE Pesticides - Food; Herbicides
"For the Government, Contractors Have Special Rates": #315
Foreign ownership of U.S. properties: #242
Formaldehyde: #39, 49, 120
Formamide: #128
Fort Howard Paper Co.: #258
Fossil fuels SEE Fuels, Fossil
Free trade SEE Trade, Free
Free Trade series: #303(Part 1), 304(Part 2), 305(Part 3)
Freeman, Harry: #15
Freon: #152(Freon 11, 12, 113, 114, 115)
Fresh Kills Landfill: #4
FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES: #239
Frogs SEE Amphibians
FROM POISON TO PREVENTION: #142
FROM POLLUTION TO PREVENTION: A PROGRESS REPORT ON WASTE REDUCTION:
#33
Frontline (Public Broadcasting System): #132
FTA SEE U.S. - Canada Free Trade Agreement
Fuels, Fossil: #134, 145, 146, 252
Fuels, Hazardous waste as: #174(list), 191
Fuels, Hydrogen: #252
Fulgarites: #177
Full cost pricing (trade restrictions): #305
Fuller, Kathryn S.: #268
Fungicides: #61
Furans - Skin absorption: #120
Furans: #21, 75, 82, 143, 146, 264, 279, 280, 283, 314(cement)
"Future of Nuclear Power": #145
GAF incinerator: #132
Gallatin National Landfill (megafill): #164
Garbage disposal - Export: #85
Garbage disposal - Out of state: #57
Garbage disposal SEE ALSO Landfills; Incinerators; Hazardous
substances
Gases - Landfills SEE Landfills - Gases
Gasoline: #24, 98, 117
Gasoline underground storage tanks SEE Underground storage
tanks
Gasoline vapor traps: #3
GATT SEE General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
GB (nerve agent): #283
GE SEE General Electric
General Accounting Office: #39, 65
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade: #303, 304, 305
General Electric: #124, 142, 227, 317
Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS): #218
Genetic damage: #90
Genetic engineering: #8, 78, 306
"Geographic Patterns of Lung Cancer: Industrial Correlations": #274
Georgia Pacific Paper Co.: #248
Geschwind, Sandra A.: #313
Gibbs, Lois: #30, 94, 133, 198, 276
Gila River Indian Community: #48
Ginsburg, Robert: #211
Give us many backyards SEE GUMBY
Glass - Recycling SEE Recycling - Glass
"Global Chemical Pollution": #234
"Global Convention on the Transboundary Movement of Hazardous Wastes": #126
"Global Distribution of Carcinogenic Pollutants in Water": #149
GLOBAL DUMPING GROUND: #253
Global warming: #145, 215, 256, 259, 300, 301
GLOBAL WARMING: #252
Global Warming - Climate and Infectious Disease: #466
Global Warming Evidence: #429 (Part 1), 430 (Part 2)
Global Warming politics: #467
Global Warming series: #300(Part 1), 301(Part 2)
Glue: #137
Glycidyl ethers: #149
Glycol ethers: #149
Gofman, John: #106, 155
Goldman, Ben: #168
Goldman, Lynn R.: #276
Goodhope, Sam: #239
Goodrich, B.F.: #132
Gordon, Ben: #51, 129
Gore, Al: #307, 315
"Gore Says Clinton Will Try to Halt Waste Incinerator": #315
Government Accountability Project: #311
Governmental regulation: #298
Grants to environmental groups SEE Environmental groups
Granulated Technologies: #258
GRAS SEE Generally Recognized as Safe
Grassroots organizations SEE Citizen action groups; Environmental groups; names of individual groups, such as Greenpeace, Dumpbusters, etc.
Great Lakes - Pollution: #146, 187, 225, 230, 249
Great Lakes: #284
"Great Lakes Cleanup Effort": #146
GREAT LAKES GREAT LEGACY ?: #263, 264
Great Louisiana Toxics March: #101
GREEN LINE: #258
Greenhouse effect SEE Global warming; Climate
GREENHOUSE GAMBIT: BUSINESS AND INVESTMENT RESPONSES TO CLIMATE
CHANGE: #300, 301
Greenpeace: #28, 51, 126, 129, 135, 143(video), 203
GREENPEACE ACTION GARBAGE PREVENTION PLAN: #203
GREENPEACE WASTE TRADE UPDATE: #126, 253
Greenpoint-Williamsburg, N.Y.: #159
Griffith, Jack: #127
Grossman, Richard: #308, 309, 316
GROUND WATER CONTAMINATION: #98
Ground water SEE Water - Groundwater
GROUNDWATER QUALITY: STATE ACTIVITIES TO GUARD AGAINST CONTAMINANTS:
#69
"Group Report: Lead": #189
Growth: #197(exponential), 199, 256, 286
"Growth of Children Living Near the Hazardous Waste Site, Love Canal": #276
Growth, Sustainable: #256
GSX Corp. (a subsidiary of Laidlaw): #141, 180
GUERILLA MEDIA: #101
"Guidance for Implementation of Requirements under Section 304(1) of the Clean Water Act as
Amended: #79
GUIDE TO MANAGING INDUSTRIAL HAZARDOUS WASTE: #208
GUIDE TO TRADE AND THE ENVIRONMENT: #303, 304, 305
GUMBY (Give us Many Backyards): #138
Hair, Jay: #156, 157, 220
Hair oil: #117
Hair shampoo: #117
Hair wave lotions: #117
Half lives (of toxic substances) SEE Hazardous substances - Half
lives
Half lives SEE ALSO Radioactive waste - Half lives
"Hallmark of Dioxin Intoxication": #171
Halogenated compounds: #193(List in breast milk)
Halogenated hydrocarbons: #117, 123,
269, 274, 276, 279
Halogenated naphthalene: #249
Halons (Bromofluorocarbon): #60, 149(Halon-1211& 1301), 152(Halon 1211& 1301), 285
Hammer provisions: #298(government regulation)
Hand lotions: #117
HANDBOOK: GROUND WATER: #163
HANDBOOK OF HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT: #208
HANDBOOK OF TOXIC AND HAZARDOUS CHEMICALS: #230
Hanford Nuclear Reservation (Wash.): #12, 227, 283
Harker, Don: #158
Harmonization (trade): #304
Hassebrook, Lyle (President, CH2M): #315
Hazard Communication Standard (HCS): #38
Hazard ranking system SEE Superfund sites - Cleanups - Hazard
ranking systems
"Hazardous Materials Emergency Planning Guide": #21
HAZARDOUS NEIGHBORS: #159
Hazardous substances - Above ground storage: #150, 260
Hazardous substances - Activists' manual: #59
Hazardous substances - Alternatives: #196, 204, 207
Hazardous substances - Ban: #102, 107, 111, 204, 205, 282, 284, 304
Hazardous substances - Bioaccumulation SEE Bioaccumulation of toxic
substances
Hazardous substances - Bioremediation SEE Bioremediation of
hazardous substances
Hazardous substances - Cancer SEE Cancer - Hazardous substances -
Dump sites
Hazardous substances - Chemical detoxification: #260, 311
Hazardous substances - Chemical detoxification SEE ALSO BCD
Hazardous substances - Classification: #293
Hazardous substances - Control SEE Hazardous substances -
Ban; Hazardous substances - Recycling; Hazardous substances - Taxation; Hazardous substances - Use reduction; Hazardous substances - Waste reduction
Hazardous substances - Data base: #135(Toxic Release
Inventory)
Hazardous substances - "Derived from" rule: #293
Hazardous substances - Detoxification: #21, 87(high temperature incinerators), 205
Hazardous substances - Disposal - Containment methods: #49, 77, 166
Hazardous substances - Disposal - Deep injection wells: #272
Hazardous substances - Disposal - Indian reservations: #278(asbestos)
Hazardous substances - Disposal - Industrial discharge pipes SEE
Industrial discharge pipes
Hazardous substances - Disposal - On-site: #39, 41
Hazardous substances - Disposal - Records: #241
Hazardous substances - Disposal - Small generators: #53, 176
Hazardous substances - Disposal: #12, 13(Illinois law), 15(RCRA), 21, 23, 38(DOE), 49, 180, 205, 237, 238, 239, 253, 257, 272, 284 (alternatives)
Hazardous substances - Drinking water: #41, 80, 97
Hazardous substances - Dump sites - Assimilative capacity SEE Assimilative capacity
Hazardous substances - Dump sites - Birth defects SEE Birth defects -
Hazardous waste dumps
Hazardous substances - Dump sites - Caps: #276
Hazardous substances - Dump sites - Cleanup: #15, 17, 65(inventory), 65, 133, 150, 182(poorer areas)
Hazardous substances - Dump sites - Components: #272(12most common)
Hazardous substances - Dump sites - Groundwater pollution SEE Water
- Groundwater
Hazardous substances - Dump sites: #6, 13, 25, 27,
43(government), 44, 79, 142, 152, 271, 272, 283
Hazardous substances - Dump sites, Illegal: #90
Hazardous substances - Dump sites, Military: #224(Map), 227
Hazardous substances - Dumping ban: #106
Hazardous substances - Export: #55, 126, 158, 253, 257(Lome IV Convention, Basel
Convention, Bamako Convention)
Hazardous substances - Export SEE ALSO Incinerators - Ash -
Export
Hazardous substances - Generation SEE Hazardous substances -
Industrial use and generation
Hazardous substances - Groundwater pollution SEE Water -
Groundwater; Water Pollution
Hazardous substances - Half lives: #284
Hazardous substances - Health effects: #13, 56, 110, 122, 133, 271,272, 276
Hazardous substances - Household: #21, 268
Hazardous substances - Importation SEE Interstate commerce
restrictions
Hazardous substances - Incineration - Ban: #284
Hazardous substances - Incineration - Cement kilns: #174, 236, 239, 241, 242, 243, 287, 275, 314
Hazardous substances - Incineration - Emissions: #105, 236, 280
Hazardous substances - Incineration - Legislation and regulation: #241, 253, 315
Hazardous substances - Incineration - Safety measures: #281
Hazardous substances - Incineration: #14, 81, 105, 142, 186, 203, (costs), 205, 206, 207, 208, 233, 236, 237(deficiencies), 260, 280, 281, 283, 287(WTI), 288(WTI), 298(WTI), 306, 311, 312, 315, 318
Hazardous substances - Incineration SEE ALSO Ocean
incineration
Hazardous substances - Industrial discharge pipes SEE Industrial
discharge pipes
Hazardous substances - Industrial use and generation: #4, 7, 22, 33, 107, 124, 148, 186, 188, 194, 196, 203, 207, 208(liability), 234, 235, 272
Hazardous substances - Industrial use and generation SEE ALSO
Hazardous
Hazardous substances - International control: #56
Hazardous substances - Interstate restrictions SEE Interstate commerce
restrictions
Hazardous substances - Labeling SEE Labels - Hazardous
ingredients
Hazardous substances - Landfills - Commercial: #180
Hazardous substances - Landfills - Leachate: #293
Hazardous substances - Landfills: #90, 138, 164(leachate), 166, 188, 205, 208, 243, 268
Hazardous substances - Landfills SEE ALSO Landfills - Radioactive
wastes
Hazardous substances - Lawsuits: #44
Hazardous substances - Legislation and regulation: #16, 39, 203, 234, 235, 241(reform sought)
Hazardous substances - Levels: #225
Hazardous substances - Manmade materials: #97, 98, 152, 164, 194
Hazardous substances - Medical waste SEE Medical waste
Hazardous substances - Military: #23, 124(includes list of sites), 126, 183223, 224(including map of military installations and sites), 227
Hazardous substances - Mixture rule: #293
Hazardous substances - National Response Center hotline: #25
Hazardous substances - Ocean incineration SEE Ocean
incineration
Hazardous substances - Persistent toxic substances: #284
Hazardous substances - Production SEE Hazardous substances -
Industrial use and generation
Hazardous substances - Recycling: #102, 205, 236, 237, 239, 241, 242, 243, 253, 258
Hazardous substances - Reduction SEE Hazardous substances - Use
reduction; Hazardous substances - Waste reduction
Hazardous substances - Regulation SEE Hazardous substances -
Legislation and regulation; Resource Conservation and Recovery
Act
Hazardous substances - Responsibility for harm: #96, 97, 98
Hazardous substances - Solidification: #88, 180, 192
Hazardous substances - Spills: #8, 10,
18, 25, 25 (2nd article on spills), 159, 230, 236
Hazardous substances - Storage: #65(inventory), #159, 180, 297
Hazardous substances - Taxation: #102(discharge and use)
Hazardous substances - Threshold levels: #318
Hazardous substances - Toxicity ratings: #35
Hazardous substances - Toxicological profiles: #169(list of
profiles)
Hazardous substances - Treatment: #180
Hazardous substances - Underground storage tanks SEE Underground
storage tanks
Hazardous substances - Use reduction: #33, 43, 54, 107,
111, 207, 234, 268
Hazardous substances - Use reduction SEE ALSO Clean
production
Hazardous substances - Waste reduction: #5, 13, 16, 22,
33, 107, 110, 111, 112, 142, 207
Hazardous substances - Waste reduction SEE ALSO Resource
Conservation and Recovery Act
Hazardous substances - Waste treatment: #207
Hazardous substances - Weight of evidence SEE Weight of
evidence
Hazardous substances - Work place: #123, 137
HAZARDOUS WASTE - CONTRACTORS SHOULD BE ACCOUNTABLE FOR
ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE: #254
Hazardous Waste Environmental Research Laboratory (EPA): #312
HAZARDOUS WASTE FACT BOOK: #22, 44
Hazardous waste incineration series: #205(Part 2), 206(Part 3), 207 (Part 4), 208(Part 5)
HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT ENGINEERING: #208
"Hazardous Waste Management: Planning to Avoid Future Problems": #148
"Hazardous Waste Management System: Permitting Requirements for Land Disposal Facilities --
Part II": #226
"Hazardous Waste Pickup Problems Among Automotive Maintenance and Dry Cleaning Firms":
#53
HAZARDOUS WASTE PROCESSING TECHNOLOGY: #207
"Hazardous Waste System": #39, 41
Hazardous Waste Treatment Council: #174, 293
"Hazards of a Chemical Laboratory Environment - A Study of the Mortality in Two Cohorts of
Swedish Chemists": #273
HAZARDS OF ASBESTOS EXPOSURE: #278
HCB SEE Hexachlorobenzene
HCFC SEE Hydrochlorofluorocarbons
HCS SEE Hazard communication Standard
HDPE SEE Landfills - Liners - High density polyethylene
Health assessments SEE Hazardous substances - Health effects;
Health surveys
"Health Effects of Toxic Wastes in the Environment": #59
"Health Study of Two Communites [sic] Near the Stringfellow Waste Disposal Site": #313
Health surveys: #59
Heavy metals SEE Metals, Heavy, Toxic
Heptachlor: #46, 146, 170, 193
"Herbicide Exposure and Cancer Mortality": #175
"Herbicide Exposure and Tumor Mortality": #250
Herbicides: #212, 250, 269
"Herbicides and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma: New evidence from a study of Saskatchewan
farmers": #250
Herbicides SEE ALSO Pesticides
Hercules: #250
Hexachlorobenzene: #146, 264
Hexachlorocyclohexane: #276
Hexachlorocyclopentadiene: #276
Hexachlorophene: #173, 219
Hexane: #276
High density polyethylene landfill liners SEE Landfills - Liners - High
density polyethylene
High level radioactive waste SEE Radioactive waste
HIGH-LEVEL DOLLARS, LOW-LEVEL SENSE: #302
Hinchey, Maurice: #40
Hiroshima: #200, 201
Hirschhorn, Joel: #260
Historical aerial photography SEE Aerial photography
HLW SEE Radioactive waste
Hoffman-LaRoche Pharmaceutical Co.: #175
HOLD THE APPLAUSE: A CASE STUDY OF CORPORATE ENVIRONMENTALISM, AS
PRACTICED AT DUPONT: #259
Holnam, Inc.: #243
Hormones - Mimicry: #279, 304
Hormones: #263, 264, 269, 270, 310(dioxin)
Hormones SEE ALSO Steroid hormones
Hospital emissions SEE Fine particles series; Medical waste
HOSPITAL WASTE COMBUSTION STUDY, DATA GATHERING PHASE, FINAL DRAFT
REPORT: #82
Hospital waste SEE Medical waste
Houk, Vernon: #292
Household hazardous waste SEE Hazardous substances -
Household
"How Big Could This Problem Become?--Ways for Journalists and Environmentalists to Project
Future Growth": #149
"How Dangerous is Dioxin": #219
"How to Price Garbage Pickup": #307
HOW TO SURVIVE THE ATOMIC BOMB: #200
Huerfano Mountain: #278(asbestos)
"Human Appropriation of the Products of Photosynthesis": #256
"Human Health Effects of 2,4,5-T and Its Toxic Contaminants": #171, 212
"Human Health Risks from Methylmercury in Fish": #291
HUMAN MILK IN THE MODERN WORLD: #193
Human milk SEE Breast milk
Hunter Environmental Services: #180
Hunter Industrial Facilities, Inc.: #180
Huntington, N.Y. Incinerator: #307
Hurricanes: #301
Hydrocarbons: #120
Hydrocarbons, Aromatic SEE Aromatic hydrocarbons; Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
Hydrocarbons, Halogenated SEE Halogenated hydrocarbons
Hydrocarbons, Non-methane SEE Non-methane
Hydrocarbons
Hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFC): #259
Hydrogen chloride: #140
Hydrogen (energy source): #252
Hydrogeology: #90
Hydroquinone: #266
Hyperactivity: #133
Hyvar X: #128
ICF, Inc.: #81
ICRP: SEE International Commission on Radiological
Protection
ICU (waste disposal company): #278
Illegal dumping of hazardous substances SEE Hazardous substances -
Dump sites, Illegal
ILSR SEE Institute for Local Self Reliance
Immune system: #31, 70, 123, 144(PCB), 165, 246(Ozone layer), 270 (dioxin), 318
Import restrictions: #303
IN OUR OWN BACK YARD: LOVE CANAL (video): #182
IN THE MOUTH OF THE DRAGON: #216, 217
"IN UTERO and Lactational Exposure of Male Rats to 2,3,7,8-Tetrachloro-dibenzo-p-dioxin. Part
1. Effects on Androgenic Status; Part 2. Effects on Sexual Behavior and the Regulation of
Luteinizing Hormone Secretion in Adulthood; and Part 3. Effects on Spermatogenesis and
Reproductive Capability.": #290
"Incidence of Congenital Anomalies among White and Black Live Births with Long- term Follow
up": #149
"Incidence of Low Birth Weight among Love Canal Residents": #149, 276
INCINERATION - THE BURNING ISSUE: #206
INCINERATION OF DIOXIN IN JACKSONVILLE, ARKANSAS: A REVIEW OF TRIAL BURNS
AND RELATED AIR MONITORING AT VERTAC SITE CONTRACTORS INCINERATOR,
JACKSONVILLE, ARKANSAS: #280
Incineration SEE Hazardous substances - Incineration; Ocean incineration
"Incinerator Ash Alert": #75
Incinerator ash series: #189(Part 1), 190(Part 2), 191(Part 3), 192 (Part 4)
"Incinerator Can't Do Job, Engineer Says": #280
"Incinerator Safety Stiffened": #281
Incinerators - Advantages and disadvantages: #167, 233
Incinerators - Air pollution: #31, 35, 36, 45,
105, 118, 131, 132, 132, 136, 140, 143, 198(mercury), 214(lead), 215, 220(lead), 236, 277, 283, 291(mercury), 307
Incinerators - Ash - Classification: #85, 103, 162, 164, 191, 215
Incinerators - Ash - Disposal: #190, 203
Incinerators - Ash - Disposal SEE ALSO Monofills
Incinerators - Ash - Export: #52
Incinerators - Ash - Filters: #198(activated charcoal)
Incinerators - Ash - Groundwater pollution: #162
Incinerators - Ash - Heavy metals: #92, 162, 189(lead), 191, 215, 220
Incinerators - Ash - Solidification: #192
Incinerators - Ash: #22, 35, 54, 75, 93,
105, 114, 131, 132, 134, 136, 162189, 190,
191, 192, 215, 217, 283
Incinerators - Ash -"Recycling": #191
Incinerators - Ban SEE Incinerators - Moratorium on new
incinerators
Incinerators - Cement kilns SEE Hazardous substances - Incineration -
Cement kilns
Incinerators - Cost: #114, 307
Incinerators - Dump stack SEE Incinerators - Emergency by-pass
openings
Incinerators - Electrostatic precipitators: #198
Incinerators - Emergency by-pass openings: #237
Incinerators - Emergency feed cut-offs: #237
Incinerators - Emissions SEE Incinerators - Air pollution; Hazardous substances - Incineration - Emissions; Particle size
Incinerators - Energy production: #103
Incinerators - Hazardous waste SEE Hazardous substances -
Incineration
Incinerators - Medical waste SEE Medical waste - Incinerators
Incinerators - Military: #283
Incinerators - Moratorium on new incinerators: #215, 237, 241, 253
Incinerators - Municipal solid waste: #275, 289
Incinerators - Netherlands: #198
Incinerators - Newsletter: #75
Incinerators - Ocean SEE Ocean incineration
Incinerators - Plastic SEE Plastics - Incinerators
Incinerators - Radioactive waste: #282
Incinerators - Regulation: #39, 118, 131, 132
Incinerators - Repairs: #114
Incinerators - Scrubbers (dry acid): #118, 198(dry lime)
Incinerators - Scrubbers (fabric/baghouse): #118, 132, 198
Incinerators - Scrubbers (Venturi): #132
Incinerators - Scrubbers (wet): #118
Incinerators - Siting: #48(Indian reservation), 81(poorer areas), 238, 239
Incinerators - Sludge: #138, 280
Incinerators - Soil (contaminated): #280
Incinerators - Supply of materials (put or pay): #114
Incinerators - Wood (treated): #280
Incinerators: #8, 37, 55, 83, 85,
134(Part 3), 143(list shut down by
citizen groups), 215(American Public Health Association)
Incinerators and landfills : #162, 164
Incinerators and recycling: #114, 121
Incomplete combustion products SEE Products of incomplete
combustionn
INCONCLUSIVE BY DESIGN: WASTE FRAUD AND ABUSE IN FEDERAL ENVIRONMENTAL
HEALTH RESEARCH: #292
"Increase in Global Atmospheric Concentrations of Mercury Inferred from Measurements over
the Atlantic Ocean": #291
"Increasing Annual Incidence of Primary Malignant Tumors in the Elderly": #266
Indian reservations - Hazardous substances - Disposal SEE Hazardous
substances - Disposal - Indian reservations
Indian reservations - Siting of landfills and incinerators SEE Incinerators - Siting; Landfills -
Siting
Indoor air pollution SEE Air pollution - Indoor
INDOOR AIR QUALITY AND PERSONAL EXPOSURE, A BRIEFING PAPER: #49
INDOOR AIR QUALITY IMPLEMENTATION PLAN: #42
Industrial discharge pipes: #187
Industrial Toxics Project: #235
Industrial Transfer law SEE Property transfer laws
"Industries Gaining Broad Flexibility on Air Pollution": #293
Industry, Sustainable SEE Sustainable development
Infectious waste SEE Medical waste
Inform, Inc.: #33
Inmont Chemical Company (division of German conglomerate BASF): #80
INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES FOR DISPOSAL OF HAZARDOUS WASTES: #150
INNOVATIVE THERMAL PROCESSES FOR TREATING HAZARDOUS WASTE: #15, 208
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy: #304
Institute for Energy and Environmental Research: #285
Institute for Local Self Reliance (ILSR): #289
"Instrumented Watersheds in the Coal Fields of Northwestern New Mexico": #278
Intensive Recycling System: #108
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change SEE IPCC
International Agency for Research on Cancer: #173
International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP): #202
International Joint Commission: #284
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HYDROGEN ENERGY: #252
International Nutronics Inc.: #10
International Technology Corporation: #180
INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND THE ENVIRONMENT: #304
INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN WASTES: #126, 257
INTERNATIONAL TRENDS IN CANCER MORTALITY IN FRANCE, WEST GERMANY, ITALY,
JAPAN, ENGLAND AND WALES, AND THE USA: #266
International Union for the Conservation of Nature: #246
International Waste Trade series: #253(Part 1), 257(Part 2)
Interstate commerce restrictions: #66, 156, 157
INTRAUTERINE EXPOSURE OF HUMANS TO PCB'S: NEWBORN EFFECTS: #61
Iodine-129 SEE Radioactive
iodine
Iodine, Radioactive SEE Radioactive iodine
Iodine (tincture): #117
IPCC SUPPLEMENT, 1992: #300
Iraq (war with): #223
Irradiation of food SEE Food - Irradiation
"Is Brain Cancer Mortality Increasing in Industrial Countries": #266
"Is Hydrogen a Safe Fuel?": #252
"Israeli Breast Cancer Anomaly": #265
JACADS SEE Johnston Atoll Chemical Disposal System
(JACADS)
JACK O'DWYER'S NEWSLETTER: #261
Jacksonville, Ar. Incinerator: #280, 281, 311, 312
Jacksonville Mothers and Children Defense Fund (JAMAC): #281
JAMAC SEE Jacksonville Mothers and Children Defense Fund
(JAMAC)
"Japan and the Mercury-Poisoned Sea": #291
Jenkins, Cate: #171
Johnston Atoll Chemical Disposal System (JACADS): #283
Journal of Pesticide Reform: #194, 195, 204
Kaltofen, Marco: #311
Karmex: #128
Kaufman, Hugh: #51, 156, 157, 243, 254, 314
Keep America Beautiful: #289
Kelthane: #264
Kepone: #264, 276
Kerr-McGee: #124
Khian Sea (ship): #55, 253
KILLING WIND: #170
Kilns - Hazardous substances incinerators SEE Hazardous substances -
Incineration - Cement kilns
KIRK-OTHMER ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY: #117
Kleppinger, Edward W.: #243
Knowing Endangerment: #77
Kociba, Richard: #275
KPEG (potassium polyethylene glycolate): #21
Kramlich, John C.: #312
Kranmer, Morris: #311
Labels - Hazardous ingredients: #67, 203, 104
Labor/Community Watchdog: #262
Lagoons SEE Hazardous substances - Disposal - On-site
Laidlaw: #141
Lake Michigan Federation: #258
LANCER SEE Los Angeles City Energy Recovery Project
LANDFILL TESTING PROGRAM: DATA ANALYSIS AND EVALUATION GUIDELINES: #226
Landfills - Air pollution: #74, 226
Landfills - Air pollution SEE ALSO Landfills - Gases
Landfills - Alternatives: #111
Landfills - Alternatives SEE ALSO Recycling; Incinerators; Hazardous Act
Landfills - Caps: #109, 133, 217, 231, 232, 268, 316
Landfills - Caps SEE ALSO Liquids Management Strategy
Landfills - Construction: #37, 109, 116, 119
Landfills - Containment systems: #231, 232
Landfills - Containment systems SEE ALSO Landfills - Caps; Landfills - Liners
Landfills - Costs: #1, 29, 307
Landfills - Economic Aspects: #268
Landfills - Gases - Migration: #226
Landfills - Gases: #226
Landfills - Geologic conditions: #158
Landfills - Groundwater: #71, 77, 116, 125, 164, 176, 231, 232, 316
Landfills - Hazardous waste SEE Hazardous substances -
Landfills
Landfills - Hydrogeology: #37
Landfills - Leachate: #90, 126, 176, 316
Landfills - Leachate collection system: #37, 119, 125, 231, 232, 268, 316
Landfills - Leaking: #37, 54, 71, 109, 119, 125, 150, 176, 177 (lightning), 316
Landfills - Liners - Clay: #125, 316
Landfills - Liners - Flexible membrane: #116, 268, 316
Landfills - Liners - High density polyethylene: #117, 140, 180
Landfills - Liners - Permeability: #116, 117, 125
Landfills - Liners - Plastic: #216, 217
Landfills - Liners: #26, 37, 71, 103, 116, 231, 232, 268, 316
Landfills - Megafills: #164
Landfills - Monitoring wells: #158, 232
Landfills - Monofills: #217(liners)
Landfills - Permits: #176(expansion application, state by
state)
Landfills - Public ownership: #232, 307
Landfills - Radioactive waste - Low-level - Siting: #183
Landfills - Radioactive waste: #62, 69,
109, 138, 183(List), 282, 302
Landfills - Regional: #268
Landfills - Regulations: #231, 232, 268, 316
Landfills - Siting: #48(Indian reservation), 66(poorer areas), 138, 158(poorer areas), 238), 239(Indian reservation)
Landfills - Tipping fees: #29
Landfills and incinerators SEE Incinerators and landfills
Landfills SEE ALSO Names of individual landfills, such as Fresh
Kills
Landrigan, Philip J.: #318
Lannate: #128
LaRoche Industries: #297
L.A.'S LETHAL AIR - NEW STRATEGIES FOR POLICY, ORGANIZING AND ACTION: #262
Latency period - Cancer SEE Cancer - Latency period
Lavelle, Rita: #48
Law suits - Dioxin SEE Dioxin - Lawsuits
Law suits - Small Claims court: #181
Lawn care chemicals SEE Pesticides - Lawn care chemicals; Herbicides; and names of individual products such as 2,4-D
LAWN CARE PESTICIDES: #247
Leachate collection systems SEE Landfills - Leachate collection
systems; Hazardous substances - Landfills - Leachate
Leachate SEE Landfills - Leachate; Landfills - Leaking
Lead - Air: #2, 24, 30, 36, 214(incinerators)
Lead - Drinking water: #5, 9, 10, 24, 30,
36, 162
Lead - Economic classes: #214
Lead - Food: #32, 36, 214(absorption rates for children and adults)
Lead - Health effects: #25, 189, 213, 214, 294, 318
Lead - Incinerator ash: #52, 189, 190, 191, 217, 220
Lead - Learning ability: #213
Lead - Levels: #213
Lead: #92, 93, 115, 131, 140, 143, 146, 154, 162, 179, 225, 228, 234, 236, 253, 258, 274, 294
Lead acetate: #107
Lead chromate: #128
"Lead Level Found Hazardous in 75% of Pre-1950 Homes": #294
"Lead Poison Drive Is Urged in Senate": #294
"Lead Poisoning - A Disease of the Poor": #294
Lead Poisoning - Racism: #294
"Lead Poisoning and the Fall of Rome": #189
"Lead Poisoning in Young Children": #294
"Lead Poisoning Study Finds 3 Blacks Suffer to 1 White": #294
Lead series: #213(Part 1), 214(Part
2)
"Lead-contaminated Soil Cleanup Draft Report": #217
Leaking underground storage tanks (LUST) SEE Underground storage
tanks
Learning disabilities: #133
Lee, G. Fred Associates: #316
LEGACY OF LEAD: #294
"Legal Corner": #288
"Lessons from Love Canal, New York, U.S.A.: The Role of the Public and the Use of Birth
Weights, Growth, and Indigenous Wildlife to Evaluate Health Risk": #276
"Let Them Eat Lead": #294
"Leukaemia [sic] Near Massachusetts Nuclear Power Plant": #245
Leukemia SEE Cancer - Leukemia
Lewis, Sanford: #33
Liability: #298
Lighter fluid: #117
Lightning - Protection: #177
Lightning: #177
LIGHTNING BOOK: #177
LIGHTNING PROTECTION CODE 1983ANSI [AMERICAN
NATIONAL STANDARDS INSTITUTE] / NFPA [NATIONAL FIRE PROTECTION
ASSOCIATION] NO. 78: #177
LIMITS TO GROWTH: #199
Lindane: #117, 187, 264, 276
Linear theory: #184, 185
Liners for landfills SEE Landfills - Liners
Linguistic detoxification: #190, 258
LINING OF WASTE IMPOUNDMENTS AND DISPOSAL FACILITIES: #268
Lipari Landfill (N.J.): #6, 115
Liquids Management Strategy: #268
LIVING WITHOUT LANDFILLS: #69
LLW SEE Radioactive waste
Loading Dock (Baltimore): #289
Lobbyists SEE Corporations -Lobbyists
Local Solutions to Global Pollution: #216
LOCKED OUT! THE STORY OF BASF'S ATTACK ON WORKERS, THE COMMUNITY AND
THE ENVIRONMENT IN LOUISIANA: #101
LOGARITHMIC CENTURY: #197, 199
Lome IV convention: #257
LONG-TERM HEALTH EFFECTS OF EXPOSURE TO 2,4,5-T AND/OR ITS CONTAMINANTS:
#171
Los Angeles - Air pollution SEE Air pollution - Los Angeles
Los Angeles City Energy Recovery Project (LANCER): #55
Louisiana Toxics Project: #101
Love Canal, N.Y.: #104, 133, 136(rally), 138(rally), 139, 143 (rally), 145(rally), 182, 186, 188(proposed cleanup plan), 276
LOVE CANAL: PUBLIC HEALTH TIME BOMB: #276
"Low Birth Weight, Prematurity and Birth Defects in Children Living Near the Hazardous Waste
Site, Love Canal": #104, 276
Low birth weight SEE Birth weight, Low
Low-level radiation - Health effects SEE Radiation - Low-level
"Low-Level Radioactive Waste Compacts": #302
"Low-Level Radioactive Waste: Gamma Rays in our Garbage": #183
"LOW-LEVEL" RADIOACTIVE WASTE: MYTH BUSTERS #8: #302
Low-Level Radioactive Waste Policy Act: #302
Low-level radioactive waste SEE Radioactive waste - Low level;
Landfills - Radioactive waste, Low level
"Low-Level" Radioactive Waste series: #302(Part 1)
Lowrance, Sylvia: #312, 318
Lubricating oil SEE Oil, Lubricating
"Lung Cancer and Other Causes of Death Among Licensed Pesticide Applicators": #175
LUST SEE Underground storage tanks
LWD Incinerator: #132, 158
Lymphocytosis: #123
Mafia SEE Organized crime
MAKING PEACE WITH THE PLANET: #196, 198
MAKING POLLUTERS PAY: #44
"Malignant Lymphoma and Exposure to Chemicals, Especially Organic Solvents, Chlorophenols,
and Phenoxy Acids: A Case Control Study": #175
MANAGEMENT OF TOXIC AND HAZARDOUS WASTES: #208
Manmade materials SEE Hazardous substances - Manmade
materials
MAN'S IMPACT ON THE GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT: #155
Maple trees: #10
Maquiladora program: #304
MARLEX POLYETHYLENE TIB 2 PACKAGING PROPERTIES: #117
Mass burn incinerators SEE Incinerators
Mass transportation: #297
Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS): #26, 38
Materials recovery facility: #167
Materials Recovery Report: #50
Materials recovery SEE Recycling
Maxey Flats, Ky.: #69
McCoy and Associates: #206
MEASURED TRENDS IN STRATOSPHERIC OZONE: #285
Media: #241, 258
MEDIA MONOPOLY: #241, 258
Medical waste - Autoclave: #179, 228
Medical waste - Incinerators - Air pollution: #179
Medical waste - Incinerators - Baghouse: #179
Medical waste - Incinerators - Dry scrubbers: #179
Medical waste - Incinerators: #179, 228
Medical waste - Regulation: #228
Medical waste - Steam sterilization SEE Medical waste -
Autoclave
Medical waste: #82, 228
MEDICAL WASTE: PUBLIC HEALTH VS. PRIVATE PROFIT: #228
Megafills SEE Landfills - Megafills
"Mercurial Risks From Acid's Reign": #291
Mercury - Air pollution: #291
Mercury - Fish SEE Fish - Pollution
Mercury - Health effects: #291
Mercury - Threshold levels: #291
Mercury: #4, 30, 32, 49, 95,
118, 140, 143, 146, 154, 225, 234, 235, 236, 258
"Mercury and Monomethylmercury: Present and Future Concerns": #291
MERCURY RISING: #198
Mesothelioma SEE Cancer - Mesothelioma
Metals, Heavy (toxic): #20, 22, 36, 92, 115,
123, 131, 143, 155, 190, 191, 215, 217, 236, 237, 313
Metcalf, Robert: #247
Methane: #120, 226, 300, 301
Methane SEE ALSO Landfills - Gases
"Methods and Basic Data of Case-control Study of Leukemia and Lymphoma among Young
People Near Sellafield Nuclear Plant in West Cumbria: #245
Methoxychlor: #264
Methyl alcohol: #117
Methyl bromide: #117
Methyl chloride: #128
Methyl chloroform SEE 1,1,1-trichloroethane
Methyl ethyl ketone: #115, 117, 149
Methyl isobutyl ketone: #115
Methyl isocyanate (MIC): #170
Methyl propyl ketone: #149
Methylbenzene SEE Toluene
Methylene chloride: #79, 117, 226, 266
Methylmercury: #291
MIC SEE Methyl isocyanate
Military incinerators SEE Incinerators - Military
Military pollution SEE Nuclear energy - Military; Radiation, Nuclear - Military; Hazardous
substances - Military
Milk: #202
Milk SEE ALSO Breast milk
Miller, Anthony B.: #271, 313
Mimicry of hormones SEE Hormones - Mimicry
Minamata Bay accident: #291
Mineral cycle: #155
Mineral oil: #117
Mirex: #146, 170, 187, 264, 276
Miscarriages: #115, 212
"Mixture rule" SEE 74">Hazardous substances - Mixture rule
Mobil Corporation: #76, 159
Mobro (barge): #253
Mobro (barge) SEE ALSO Morgo (barge)
MOCA: #128
Monitored retrievable storage units: #302
"Monitoring Air Emissions of Volatile Organic Pollutants from Landfills: A Technical and Policy
Analysis and The Design, Construction, and Operation of a Landfill Air Sampling System": #226
Monitoring wells SEE Landfills - Monitoring wells
Monks, Robert A.G.: #308, 309
Monofills SEE Landfills - Monofills
Monohalomethane: #149
Monopoly in the waste industry SEE Waste industry - Monopoly;
Landfills - Economic aspects
Monsanto Chemical Corporation: #107, 142, 144, 171, 205, 295(PCB)
"Monsanto Studies Under Fire": #250
Morgo (barge): #55
Morgo Barge SEE ALSO Mobro (barge)
Morris, David: #305
"Mortality among Petrochemical Science and Engineering Employees": #273
MORTALITY AMONG U.S. WORKERS EMPLOYED IN THE PRODUCTION OF CHEMICALS
CONTAMINATED WITH 2,3,7,8-TETRACHLORODIBENZO-P-DIOXIN: #219
"Mortality among Workers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory": #244,
245
"Mortality among Workers Employed in the Pharmaceutical Industry: A Preliminary
Investigation": #273
"Mortality and Cancer Morbidity among Workers in a Chemical Factory": #273
MORTALITY AND TOXICS ALONG THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER: #168
"Mortality Experience of a Cohort of Rubber Workers": #274
"Mortality Experience of Army World War II Chemical Processing Companies": #274
"Mortality of Employees of the Atomic Weapons Establishment, 1951-1982": #244, 245
"Mortality of Workers Exposed to 2-methyl-4-chlorophenoxy-acetic acid": #175
"Mortality Patterns among Workers in Three Texas Oil Refineries": #274
"Mortality Study of British Pathologists, 1974-1980": #274
"Mortality Study of Oil Refinery Workers": #274
"Mortality Study of Workers Employed at the Monsanto Company Plant in Nitro, West Virginia":
#171
Moth balls and flakes: #43, 117
Moth balls and flakes SEE ALSO Naphthalene; para-Dichlorobenzene
MRS SEE Monitored retrievable storage units
MSDS SEE Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS)
Mt. Pinatubo SEE Volcanoes
MTO SEE Multilateral Trade Organization
Multilateral Trade Organization: #304
Multiple chemical sensitivity syndrome - Symptoms: #220
Multiple chemical sensitivity syndrome: #53, 77, 94, 165,
220, 234
MULTIPLE EXPOSURES: CHRONICLES OF THE RADIATION AGE: #200, 201, 202, 244
Municipal solid waste - Incinerators SEE Incinerators - Municipal solid
waste
Municipal solid waste - Landfills SEE Landfills
"Municipal Solid Waste Composition and the Behavior of Metals in Incinerator Ashes": #92
Municipal solid waste incinerators SEE Incinerators
Municipal solid waste landfills SEE Landfills
MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT IN LINED, "DRY TOMB" LANDFILLS, A
TECHNOLOGICALLY FLAWED APPROACH FOR PROTECTION OF GROUNDWATER
QUALITY: #316
"Municipal Waste Incineration and Risk Analyses: the Need to Ask Larger Questions": #167
Mutagens: #149
NACE NEWS: #258
NACE SEE Native Americans for a Clean Environment
Nader, Ralph: #122
NAFTA SEE North American Free Trade Agreement
(NAFTA)
NAFTA THOUGHTS: #304
Nagasaki: #200, 201
Nail polish: #117
Naphthalene: #117, 249(halogenated),
258
NAS SEE National Academy of Sciences
NASA SEE National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NAS-NRC SEE National Research Council
National Academy of Sciences: #195, 220, 259
National Aeronautics and Space Administration: #148
National Bureau of Standards: #207
National Campaign Against Toxic Hazards (NCATH): #33, 55, 59
National Cancer Institute (NCI): #39, 70, 130, 266
National Center for Environmental Health Strategies: #220
National Center for Resource Recovery: #289
National Center for Solid Waste Disposal: #289
National Coalition Against the Misuse of Pesticides: #247
National Coalition to Stop Food Irradiation: #68
National Economic Research Associates (NERA): #29
National Engineering Laboratory: #147
National Fire Protection Code: #177
National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey: #213
National Human Monitoring Program: #56
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH): #120
National Institute of Environmental Health: #120
National Nuclear Waste Task force: #19
National priorities list SEE Superfund sites - Cleanups - National
priorities list
National Research Council: #110, 318
National Response Center hotline: #25
NATIONAL STUDY TO DETERMINE LEVELS OF CHLORINATED HYDROCARBON
INSECTICIDES IN HUMAN MILK, 1975-76: #279
"National Survey of Prevalence of Asthma among Children in the United States, 1976to 1980": #218
National Toxicology Program: #165
National Toxics Campaign: #135, 142,
206, 223, 292
"National Trends in the Morbidity and Mortality of Asthma in the U.S.; Prevalence,
Hospitalization and Death from Asthma Over Two Decades: 1965-
1984": #218
National Wildlife Federation: #72, 220
"Nations Think Twice on Trading in Trash": #257
Native Americans for a Clean Environment (NACE): #317
Natural resources - Conservation: #215
NATURE AND EXTENT OF LEAD POISONING IN CHILDREN IN THE UNITED STATES: A
REPORT TO CONGRESS: #213, 217
NCATH SEE National Campaign against Toxic Hazards
NCI SEE National Cancer Institute
"Negligible Risk or Premeditated Murder?": #195
Neoplasms SEE Cancer - Neoplasms
NERA SEE National Economic Research Associates
Nervous System SEE Neurotoxins
Netherlands - Incinerators SEE Incinerators - Netherlands
Neurotoxins: #318
"New Analysis Links Dioxin to Cancer": #171
"New Effects of Pollutants: Hormone Mayhem": #279
New England Coalition on Nuclear Pollution: #317
NEW SUPERFUND: WHAT IT IS AND HOW IT WORKS: #68
New York Department of Health: #313
NEW YORK TIMES: #248, 249, 275, 310
Newsweek article on NIMBY's: #139, 140, 147
NHMP SEE National Human Monitoring Program
NIABY (Not in Anybody's Backyard): #138
Niagara River, N.Y.: #186, 187, 188
Niagara River series: #186(Part 1), 187(Part 2), 188(Part 3)
Nickel: #140, 236
Nickel-63: #62
NIMBY (Not in My Backyard): #138, 139, 140, 183
"NIMBY: Nukewaste in My Backyard?": #147
NIOSH SEE National Institute for Occupational Safety and
Health
Nitrates: #1, 20
Nitric oxide: #120
Nitrobenzene: #117
Nitrogen: #155
Nitrogen compounds: #193(List in breast milk)
Nitrogen dioxide: #120
Nitrogen oxides: #140, 252
Nitrous oxide: #300
N-Nitrosocompounds: #266
NO PLACE TO HIDE: #200
NON-HAZARDOUS WASTE: STATE MANAGEMENT OF MUNICIPAL LANDFILLS AND
LANDFILL EXPANSIONS: #176
Non-Hodgkins lymphoma SEE Cancer - Non-Hodgkins
lymphoma
Non-methane hydrocarbons: #140
Non-point source water pollution: #2, 20, 146(Great Lakes)
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA): #303, 304, 305
North Hempstead, N.Y.: #307
Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides: #204, 258
Not in anybody's backyard; Not in my backyard SEE NIABY; NIMBY
NOx SEE Nitrogen oxides; nitrogen
dioxide; nitrogen compounds; nitrous oxide
NTP SEE National Toxicology Program
Nuclear accidents: #185
Nuclear accidents SEE ALSO Names of specific accidents, such as
Chernobyl
Nuclear energy - Accidents: #2
Nuclear energy - Costs: #6
Nuclear energy - Health effects: #63, 317
Nuclear energy - Military: #4, 12, 147, 227, 317
Nuclear energy - Military SEE ALSO Radiation, Nuclear -
Military
Nuclear energy - Safety: #8
Nuclear energy: #63, 69, 145, 201, 221, 289, 317
Nuclear fission: #201
NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE: #145, 201
NUCLEAR IMPERATIVES AND PUBLIC TRUST: DEALING WITH RADIOACTIVE WASTE: #145
Nuclear Information Resource Service: #147, 183, 185
NUCLEAR LEGACY: AN OVERVIEW OF THE PLACES, PROBLEMS AND POLITICS OF
RADIOACTIVE WASTE IN THE U.S.: #302
Nuclear power plants - Decommissioning - Costs: #221
Nuclear power plants - Decommissioning: #221
Nuclear power plants - Licensing: #221
Nuclear power plants - Safety hazards: #145, 201
Nuclear power plants - Waste disposal SEE Radioactive
Waste
Nuclear Regulatory Commission: #63, 147
Nuclear waste SEE Radioactive waste
Nuclear weapons - Testing: #317
Nuclear weapons - Treaties: #317
Nuclear weapons: #200, 224, 317
Nuclear Weapons Complex: #224
Nuclear weapons SEE ALSO Atomic bombs
Nuisance actions: #181
NuKem (German company): #242
Nutrasweet (aspartame): #10
Oak Ridge National Laboratory: #234, 235, 244
O'Brien, Mary: #194, 195, 204)
Occidental Petroleum: #133, 187, 188
Occupational exposure - Cancer SEE Cancer - Occupational
exposure
OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE, STATE OF THE ART REVIEWS: #165
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA): #17, 38, 128
"Occupational Safety and Health Guidance Manual for Hazardous Waste Site Activities": #13
Occupational safety and health SEE Hazardous substances - Work
place
"Occurrence of DDT in Human Milk": #193
Ocean - PCB contamination: #295
Ocean - Pollution: #32, 144(PCB)
Ocean County, N.J. - Water contamination: #139
Ocean dumping: #32, 277
Ocean Dumping Act: #277
Ocean incineration - Water pollution: #277
Ocean incineration: #14, 60, 64
Ocean incineration -Air Pollution: #277
OCIS SEE OSHA Computerized Information System
Octachlorostyrene: #264
O'Dwyer, Jack SEE JACK O'DWYER'S NEWSLETTER: #261
"Of Bibles, Bonds and Billions": #287
Office of Management and Budget: #251
Office of Pesticides and Toxic Substances: #258
Office of Technology Assessment: #33, 77, 86, 142,
148, 160, 161, 163, 207, 260, 311
Ogden Martin: #83, 85, 121
Ohio's Bad boy law SEE Bad boy laws
Oil: #98(groundwater), 216(products),
223
Oil, Lubricating: #266
Oleum concentrated: #117
Olexsey, Robert A.: #312
Olin Corporation: #188
OMB SEE Office of Management and Budget
"On the Occurrence of Transient Puffs in a Rotary Kiln Incinerator Simulator": #105
Oncogens SEE Carcinogens
OOrganic chemicals: #115, 125, 193(breast milk)
Operation Ranch Hand: #73
Orange oil: #117
ORD publications: #34
Organic chemicals - Ban: #149
Organic chemicals - Incinerators: #34, 35(list), 82(hospital incinerators)
Organic chemicals - Indoor air: #49
Organic chemicals - Industry: #102
Organic chemicals - Reduction in use: #235
Organic farming SEE Farming (no-pesticide or low-pesticide)
Organic solvents SEE Solvents, Organic
organizations)
Organized crime: #40, 141
ORGANIZED CRIME'S INVOLVEMENT IN THE WASTE HAULING INDUSTRY: #40
Organochlorine pesticides SEE Pesticides - Organochlorine
Organohalogen compounds: #263
"Origins of the Nuclear Power Fiasco": #221
Orkin Pest Control Co.: #258, 260(correction to 258)
Ortho Weed B Gone: #5, 250
OSHA Computerized Information System: #17
OSHA SEE Occupational Safety and Health Agency
"OSW Office Briefing on Cement Kiln Dust Risk Screening": #314
OTA SEE Office of Technology Assessment
OUR COMMON FUTURE: #256, 296
Outer space debris SEE Space debris
OVERSELLING OF BIOREMEDIATION: A PRIMER FOR POLICY MAKERS AND ACTIVISTS:
#306
Oxides of nitrogen SEE Nitrogen oxides
Oxides of sulfur SEE Sulfur oxides
Oxygenated compounds: #193(List in breast milk)
Ozone: #6
OZONE CRISIS: THE 15 YEAR EVOLUTION OF A SUDDEN
GLOBAL CRISIS: #205, 259
Ozone layer - Depletion - Animals, Effects on: #285
Ozone layer - Depletion - Causes: #285
Ozone layer - Depletion - Health effects: #152, 246, 285
Ozone layer - Depletion - North Pole: #285
Ozone layer - Depletion - Plants, Effect on: #152, 285
Ozone layer - Depletion - South Pole: #285
Ozone layer - Treaty: #60, 152, 285
Ozone layer: #3, 6, 11, 60(international treaty), #70, 76, 140,
149, 152, 205246, 256,
259, 300
"Ozone Layer: Study Finds Alarming Global Losses": #152
Ozone water treatment: #84
Packaging practices SEE Polyvinyl chloride
PAHLS JOURNAL: #258
PAHS SEE Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHS)
Paigen, Beverly: #104, 276
Paint: #137
"Paleolithic Diet, Evolution and Carcinogens": #168
PALLCA SEE Pitman Alcyon Lake Lipari Landfill Community
Association
Palmer, Ma. Bad boy law SEE Bad boy laws
Panic attacks: #77
Paper industry - Dioxin: #270, 275
Paper industry - Law suits: #269
Paper industry: #225, 258(sludge)
para-Dichlorobenzene: #41, 43, 117
Parker, Az. landfill: #48
Parosmia SEE Smell, Sense of
Particle size: #120, 131, 132(background), 134(health effects), 136 (health effects),
162, 174
Particulate matter: #140
Particulate matter SEE ALSO Particle size; Products of Incomplete Combustion
"Paternal Military Service in Vietnam and the Risk of Late Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes": #250
Paulson, Glenn: #7
"PCB Problems in the Future: Foresight from Current Knowledge": #295
PCB's (Polychlorinated biphenyls) - Environmental effects: #295
PCB's (Polychlorinated biphenyls) - Health effects: #295
PCB's (Polychlorinated biphenyls): #10, 30, 56, 61,
82, 107, 144 (health), 180, effects), 146, 163, 187, 193(breast milk), 205, 225, 234, 249, 264, 265, 266, 274, 277, 279, 280, 295
Pentachlorophenol: #219
Peoria Disposal: #180
Peppermint oil: #117
Perchloroethylene SEE Tetrachloroethylene
"Perinatal Dioxin Feminizes Male Rats": #290
PERMANENT CLEANUPS: A CITIZEN'S GUIDE TO HAZARDOUS WASTE TECHNOLOGIES
& RESOURCES: #150
Permeability - Landfills - Liners SEE Landfills -Liners -
Permeability
PERMITTING HAZARDOUS WASTE INCINERATORS: #236
Persistent toxic substances SEE Hazardous substances - Persistent
toxic
Perspectives on Comparing Risks of Environmental Carcinogens: #168
"Pesticide-related Health Problems and Farmworkers": #247
Pesticides - Active ingredients: #61
Pesticides - Agriculture: #1, 61, 247(failure)
Pesticides - Amphibian decline: #246
Pesticides - Birth defects: #313
Pesticides - Breast milk: #193
Pesticides - Cancer: #38, 194, 195, 212, 240, 250, 265(breast)
Pesticides - Common names: #250(list)
Pesticides - Drinking water #1, 123
Pesticides - Export of banned products: #170
Pesticides - Food: #61, 246
Pesticides - Groundwater: #1, 115, 247
Pesticides - Health effects: #13, 225,
247
Pesticides - History: #240
Pesticides - Inert ingredients: #61, 250, 258
Pesticides - Lawn care chemicals: #247
Pesticides - Lawn care chemicals SEE ALSO Cancer - Lawn care
chemicals
Pesticides - Organochlorine: #266
Pesticides - Resistance: #61, 240
Pesticides - Use: #240(increase)
Pesticides - Wildlife: #247
"Pesticides and Polychlorinated Biphenyl Residues in Human Breast Lipids and Their relation to
Breast Cancer": #279
Petrochemical industry: #30, 107
Petroleum ether: #117
Petroleum naphtha: #230
Petroleum products: #216, 217
Pharmaceuticals from Nature: #137
Phenols: #98, 115, 120
Phenoxyacetic acid: #175
Phillips 66Company: #117
Phosgene gas: #159
Photovoltaic cells: #252
Photovoltaic cells SEE ALSO Energy - Solar
Physicians Clearinghouse: #94
PHYSICS TEACHER: #199
Phytoplankton: #246
PIC SEE Products of incomplete combustion
Pigments: #266
Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant, Plymouth, Mass: #245
Pine oil: #117
PIRG SEE U.S. Public Interest Research Group
Pitman Alcyon Lake Lipari Landfill Community Association (PALLCA): #115
Pittsfield study (incineration): #45
Plastic bags: #140
Plastic food packaging: #76(ban)
Plastics - Biodegradable: #216
Plastics - Birth defects: #313
Plastics - Disposable items: #228
Plastics - Environmental effects: #216
Plastics - Incineration: #216, 217
Plastics - Structure: #216, 217
Plastics: #216, 217, 269
Plastics series: #216(Part 1), 217(Part
2)
PLAYING WITH FIRE: #233, 236, 237, 255
Plictran: #128
Plutonium: #190, 227, 283, 314(cement)
Plutonium-238: #62, #63
Plutonium-239: #201, 202, 227
POHC SEE Principal organic hazardous constituents
POISONED WELL: STRATEGIES FOR GROUNDWATER PROTECTION: #229
Polan, Adele: #276
Political Difficulties Facing Waste-to-energy Conversion Plant Siting: #81
POLITICS OF PENTA: #195
POLITICS OF RICH AND POOR: #242
"Poll Finds PR 'Weasels' Needed": #258
POLLUTERS' "SECRET PLAN" AND WHAT YOU CAN DO TO MESS IT UP!: #138
POLLUTING INCIDENTS IN AND AROUND U.S. WATERS: CALENDAR YEAR 1983TO 1984: #26
Pollution - Control SEE Pollution - Prevention
Pollution - Military SEE Hazardous substances - Military; Nuclear energy - Military; Radiation,
Nuclear - Military
Pollution - Prevention - Economic incentives: #113(deposits), 113 (product disposal tax)
Pollution - Prevention: #111, 112, 113, 124, 138, 143, 154, 196, 205, 206, 208, 223, 235, 253, 296
Pollution Prevention, Community Recycling and Incinerator Control act: #253
POLLUTION, PRICES AND PUBLIC POLICY: #102, 305
"Polychlorinated Biphenyls and the Developing Nervous System: Cross-Species Comparisons":
#295
Polychlorinated biphenyls SEE PCB's
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHS): #32, 82, 120, 131, 140, 146, 266, 277
Polyethylene, High density landfill liners SEE Landfills - Liners - High
density polyethylene
Polymerization: #217
Polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHS) SEE Polycyclic aromatic
hydrocarbons
Polystyrene: #60, 76
Polyvinyl chloride (PVC): #12, 45, 76, 179, 266, 269
Pope, C. Arden: #136
Population: #155, 197, 199
Portland, Oregon - Air pollution: #297
Post consumer waste SEE Waste, Post-consumer
Potassium polyethylene glycolate SEE KPEG
Potentially responsible parties SEE Superfund sites - Cleanups -
Potentially responsible parties
Potentiation: #132
Poverty: #256
POWER AND ACCOUNTABILITY: #308, 309
PPG Industries: #267
Precautionary principle: #257
PRE-FEASIBILITY STUDY: THE SAFE EXCAVATION OF HYDE PARK DUMP: #150
Preliminary assessment SEE Superfund sites - Cleanups - Preliminary
assessment
"Premature Births in California Sea Lions: Association with High Organochlorine Pollutant
Residue Levels": #295
PRESENT DANGERS - HIDDEN LIABILITIES A PROFILE OF THE IMPACT OF THE UNION
CARBIDE CORPORATION IN THE UNITED STATES (1987-1988): #211
Presidential Task Force on Regulatory Relief: #309
President's Interagency Drought Policy Committee: #301
"Press Briefing: End of Mission Statement; Second Airborne Arctic Stratospheric Expedition
AASE-II": #285
"Prevalence of Health Problems in Children Living Near Love Canal": #276
"Prevalence of Neurological Abnormality in Cree Indians Exposed to Methyl- mercury in
Northern Quebec": #291
PREVALENCE OF SUBSURFACE MIGRATION OF HAZARDOUS CHEMICAL SUBSTANCES
AT SELECTED INDUSTRIAL WASTE LAND DISPOSAL SITES: #71
"Price of Garbage Pickup Is in the Bag": #307
Price-fixing: #141
Principal Organic Hazardous Constituents (POHC): #312, 318
"Producers, Users Grapple with Realities of CFC Phaseout": #152
Product disposal tax: #113
Products of Incomplete Combustion (PIC): #82, 105, 143, 174, 235, 236, 237
Promethium-147: #62
PROMOTING HAZARDOUS WASTE REDUCTION: SIX STEPS STATES CAN TAKE: #33
"Propagation of Error in the Analysis of the Performance of an Incinerator": #207
Property transfer laws: #65
Propyl alcohol: #117
PROTECTING MOTHER EARTH: THE TOXIC THREAT TO INDIAN LAND: #239
Prove Harm abatement: #154, 155
Public Access: #168
Public Interest Research Group SEE U.S. Public Interest Research
Group
Pulp and paper industry SEE Paper industry
Pump and treat (water cleanup) SEE Water - Groundwater; Water pollution
Put or pay SEE Incinerators - Supply of materials (put or pay)
"Puzzling Over a Poison; On closer inspection, the ubiquitous pollutant dioxin appears more
dangerous than ever": #280
PVC SEE Polyvinyl chloride
Pymm Thermometer Corporation: #4
Pyrethroids: #264
"Quayle and His Golf Outings: Putting One Over on the Taxpayers": #287
Quayle, J. Danforth: #251, 287
Quinone: #266
Quotas: #303
Rachel database: #6, 7, 8, 111, 212,
228
Racism - Lead poisoning SEE Lead poisoning - Racism
Radian Corporation: #82
Radiation - Dose: #201
Radiation - Health effects: #183, 184,
185, 245, 317(delayed effects)
Radiation - History: #200, 202
Radiation - Safe dose: #184, 202
Radiation: #266
RADIATION AND HUMAN HEALTH: #62, 106
Radiation Effects Research Foundation: #201
Radiation, Low level - Health effects: #183, 184, 185, 244, 245
Radiation, Low level: #64
Radiation, Nuclear - Military: #12, 227,
317
Radiation series: #183(Part 1), 184 (Part 2),
185(Part 3)
RADIATION-INDUCED CANCER FROM LOW-DOSE EXPOSURE: AN INDEPENDENT
ANALYSIS: #106, 184, 244
Radio spots: #101
Radioactive fallout - Bombs: #200
Radioactive Iodine: #64, 227(Iodine-129)
Radioactive waste - Ban: #124
Radioactive waste - Below regulatory concern: #62, 147, 183, 202
Radioactive waste - Coal-burning power plants: #282
Radioactive waste - Compacts: #302
Radioactive waste - Disposal - Deep burial: #190
Radioactive waste - Half lives: #227, 284
Radioactive waste - Incineration SEE Incinerators - Radioactive
waste
Radioactive waste - Landfills SEE Landfills - Radioactive
waste
Radioactive waste - Oil wells: #282
Radioactive waste - Solidification: #192
Radioactive waste - Wood ash: #282
Radioactive waste: #145, 261(bribery/deception), 317
Radioactive Waste Campaign: #124, 227
Radioactive waste, High level - Disposal: #19, 69, 145, 221, 261, 302
Radioactive waste, Low level - Disposal: #69, 261, 302
Radioactive waste, Low level - Disposal SEE ALSO Landfills -
Radioactive
Radioactive waste, Low level - Dump sites: #69
Radioactive waste, Military: #63, 124,
227, 317
Radionuclides: #62, 95
Radium 226: #62
Radon: #3, 23, 49, 100, 201
Radwaste SEE Radioactive waste
"Ranking Possible Carcinogenic Hazards": #168, 273
Raybestos-Manhattan Company: #278(asbestos)
RCRA SEE Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
Reactor: #94
"Reagan's America, a Capital Offense": #286
Recombinant DNA SEE Genetic engineering
Records of Decision: SEE Superfund sites - Cleanups - Record of
decision
Recycle 2000: #85
Recycled Materials - Use: #215
Recycling - Alternative to Landfills: #85
Recycling - Aluminum: #121
Recycling - Costs: #1, 29, 108
Recycling - East Hampton, N.Y.: #31, 108, 121, 167
Recycling - Glass: #121
Recycling - Hamburg, N.Y.: #167
Recycling - Hazardous substances SEE Hazardous substances -
Recycling; Hazardous substances - Incineration - Cement
kilns
Recycling - Mandatory: #121
Recycling - Markets: #1, 121
Recycling - Multi-family residences: #108
Recycling - Rockford, Il.: #167
Recycling - Rodman, N.Y.: #167
Recycling - Seattle: #121
Recycling - Source separation: #108
Recycling: #50, 57(state-wide), 93(Waste Management Inc.), 121(and
incinerators), 215, 307, 289
RECYCLING AND INCINERATION: EVALUATING THE CHOICES: #203, 289
Recycling and incinerators SEE Incinerators and recycling
Recycling plants - Emissions: #108
REDUCING RISK: SETTING PRIORITIES AND STRATEGIES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL
PROTECTION: #204, 205
REGISTRY OF TOXIC EFFECTS OF CHEMICAL SUBSTANCES (RTECS): #35, 107
REGULATING PESTICIDES IN FOOD: #61
Regulatory Industrial Complex: #238(revolving door), 239, 241
Reich, Robert: #315
Reilly Investigation series: #156(Part 1), 157(Part 2)
Reilly, William - Investigation: #151, 156, 157, 159, 254
Reilly, William: #110, 142, 310
"Reiner Sees Pervasive Cartel Conspiracy by Trash Hauling Firms": #141
Rem: #201
Remedial action SEE Superfund sites - Cleanups - Remedial
action
Remedial design SEE Superfund sites - Cleanups - Remedial
design
Remedial Investigation, Feasibility Study (RIFS) SEE Superfund sites -
Cleanups - Remedial investigation, feasibility study
Removal action SEE Superfund sites - Cleanups - Removal
action
"Report, Delayed Months, Says Lowest Income Group Grew Sharply": #286
REPORT ON THE HEALTH STUDY OF RESIDENTS LIVING NEAR THE LIPARI LANDFILL:
#115
REPORT TO CONGRESS ON CEMENT KILNS: #314
REPORT TO CONGRESS ON HAZARDOUS WASTE DISPOSAL: #148
Reproduction - Effects of Dioxin: #290
Reproduction - Effects of halogenated hydrocarbons: #279
Reproductive disorders: #212(Agent Orange), 250, 318
"Reproductive Dysfunction in the Population": #290
REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH HAZARDS IN THE WORKPLACE: #149
Resnikoff, Marvin: #124
Resorcinol: #266
"Resource and Solid Waste Management": #215
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act hotline: #21
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA): #15, 21, 26, 27,
38 (DOE), 77(knowing endangerment),
111, 131, #174(exemptions), 180, 186, 215, 241(proposed changes), 253, 272, 287, 293, 314(cement)
Resource Recovery Systems, Inc.: #108
Resources for the Future: #291
"Respiratory Disease Associated with Community Air Pollution and a Steel Mill, Utah Valley":
#136
RESTORATION OF THE EARTH: #106, 155, 305
"Results of case-control study of leukemia and lymphoma among young people near Sellafield
nuclear plant in West Cumbria,": #245
RESULTS OF THE COMBUSTION AND EMISSIONS RESEARCH PROJECT AT THE VICON
INCINERATOR FACILITY IN PITTSFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS: #45
"Retrospective Cohort Study of Disability among Chemists": #273
"Retrospective Cohort Study of Mortality and Cancer Incidence Among Chemists": #273
REVIEW AND EVALUATION OF THE MONUMENT STREET (BALTIMORE) LANDFILL: #226
Revolving door SEE Regulatory Industrial Complex
Rhine River (Switzerland): #8
"Rich Get Richer and What to Do About It": #286
Richland, Wa.: #69
RIFS SEE Remedial Investigation, Feasibility Study
Right to know act: #26, 38, 42, 72, 113,
159, 166, 183, 198, 211
Right to Know Act SEE ALSO Working Group on Community Right to
Know
Right to sue government: #4
Right to work (refusal): #42
RIGHT TRAIN, WRONG TRACK: #87
"Rising Bromine Levels Threaten Ozone Layer": #149
RISK ANALYSIS: GUIDE TO PRINCIPLES AND METHODS FOR ANALYZING HEALTH AND
ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS: #204
Risk assessment series: #194(Part 1), 195(Part 2), 204(Part 3)
Risk benefit analysis - Alternatives: #204
Risk benefit analysis: #86, 95, 106, 110, 138, 167, 172, 178, 187, 194, 195204, 235,
238, 251, 269, 293, 303, 304, 314, 318
Risk benefit analysis (qualitative): #204
Risk benefit analysis (quantitative): #204
"Risk of Cancer Mortality in Populations Living Near Nuclear Facilities": #245
"Risk of Congenital Malformations Associated with Proximity to Hazardous Waste Sites": #313
Ritchie, Mark: #304
Rivers and streams - Pollution: #20
Rockford, Il. - Recycling SEE Recycling - Rockford
Rockwell International: #317
Rodman, N.Y. - Recycling SEE Recycling - Rodman
RODS SEE Records of decisions
Rollins Environmental Services: #180
Ronnel: #219
Rotation SEE Crop rotation
RTECS SEE Registry of Toxic Effects of Chemical
Substances
Ruckelshaus, William: #268
Ruelene: #128
Run-off, Stormwater SEE Non-point source water pollution
RUSH TO BURN (video): #143
Safe Drinking Water Act: #75, 142
Salt: #20
San Diego County District Attorney: #299
San Diego Report SEE FINAL REPORT: WASTE MANAGEMENT,
INC.
San Onofre (nuclear power plant): #317
Sanjour, William: #157, 210, 254, 280, 281, 298, 312, 318
SARA SEE Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act
Sarin SEE GB (nerve agent)
Saturated zone (water): #163
Savannah River, Ga.: #185(accident)
Save Our County: #255
SAVING OUR SKINS: THE CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF OZONE LAYER DEPLETION
AND POLICIES FOR ITS RESTORATION AND PROTECTION: #285
Sax, Irving: #34, 113
SCA Services: #40
Schmidheiny, Stephen: #309
Schneider, Keith: #315
Schoenborn, Bill: #314
Schwartz, Joel: #266
Scientific Assembly for Environmental Health: #94
Scrubbers - Incinerators SEE Incinerators - Scrubbers
SDWA SEE Safe Drinking Water Act
Sea surface microlayer: #277
"Sea Surface Microlayer: Biology, Chemistry and Anthropogenic Enrichment": #277
Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant: #63
SeaBurn, Inc. (waste disposal company): #64, 277
SEASON OF SPOILS: THE REAGAN ADMINISTRATION'S ATTACK ON THE ENVIRONMENT:
#148, 166
"Sea-surface Microlayer of Puget Sound: Part I. Toxic Effects on Fish Eggs and Larvae; and Part
II. Concentrations of Contaminants and Relation to Toxicity": #277
Seattle - Recycling SEE Recycling - Seattle
SECONDARY CONTAINMENT: A SECOND LINE OF DEFENSE [A CITIZENS' SERIES ON
LEAKING UNDERGROUND STORAGE TANKS, PART 1]: #229
Secrecy (governmental): #224, 251
SECRET HAZARDS OF PESTICIDES: #258
"Secret Ingredients in Pesticides: Toxic Waste": #258
Selikoff, Irving: #278(asbestos study)
Sellafield (England): #245
SEMINAR PUBLICATION: REQUIREMENTS FOR HAZARDOUS WASTE LANDFILL DESIGN,
CONSTRUCTION AND CLOSURE: #268
Sequoyah Fuels Plant, Gore, OK: #317
Series Cancer: 222(Part 1), Celebrating EPA's birthday: #209(Part 1), 210(Part 2), Chemical
regulation: #234(Part 1), 235(Part 2),
Dioxins: #171(Part 1), 173(Part 2), 175(Part 3), 219(Part 4), EPA's Dioxin
Reassessment: #269(Part 1), 270(Part
2), Fine particles: #131 (Part 1), 132(Part 2), 134(Part 3), 136(Part 4), 162(Part 5), Free Trade
series: #303(Part 1), 304(Part 2), 305(Part 3), Global Warming: #300(Part
1), 301(Part 2), Hazardous waste incineration: #205(Part 2), 206(Part 3), 207(Part 4), 208(Part 5), Incinerator ash:
#189(Part 1), 190(Part 2), 191(Part 3), 192(Part 4), Incinerator
series (no uniform title): #31(Part 1), 35(Part 2), 36 (Part 3), 45(Part 4) International waste trade: #253(Part 1), 257 (Part 2), Lead: #213(Part 1), 214(Part 2), "Low-Level"
Radioactive Waste: #302(Part 1), Plastics: #216(Part 1), 217(Part 2), Radiation: #184(Part 1), 185(Part 2), 186(Part 3), Reilly investigation: #156
(Part 1), 157(Part 2), Risk assessment: #194(Part 1), 195(Part 2), 204(Part 3), Superfund #160(Part 1), 161(Part 2), 163(Part 3) 166 (Part 4), 172(Part 5) Tools of the
trade: #197(Part 1), 199(Part 2),
Toxics (Year in Review): #318(Part 1), Waste wars: #238(Part 1), 239 (Part 2), What Has Gone
Wrong?: #292(Part 1), What We Must Do: #88 (Part 1), 89(Part 2), 90(Part 3), 91(Part 4) 93(Part 5), 96(Part 6), 97(Part 7), 98(Part 8), #102(Part 9), 106(Part 10), 107(Part 11), 112(Part 12), 113(Part 13), (Part 14 not published), 122(Part 15), 286(Part 16), 288(Part 17), What Works: #296(Part 1),
297(Part 2), 298(Part 3), Wingspread
Statement: #263(Part 1), 264(Part
2)
SERIOUS REDUCTION OF HAZARDOUS WASTE: FOR POLLUTION PREVENTION AND
INDUSTRIAL EFFICIENCY: #33, 207
Seveso, Italy: #175
Sexual behavior birth defects SEE Birth defects
Sexual development - Effects of dioxin: #290
Sexual development: #263, 264(lists
known chemicals which disrupt this development)
SHAM RECYCLERS, PART I: HAZARDOUS WASTE INCINERATION IN CEMENT AND
AGGREGATE KILNS: #174, 243
Shampoo SEE Hair shampoo
Shaving lotion: #117
Sheffield, Il.: #69
Shoe polish: #117
Silvex: #219
SITE SEE Superfund Innovative Technology Evaluation
Skin absorption of dioxins SEE Dioxins - Skin absorption
Skin absorption of furans SEE Furans - Skin absorption
Sludge incinerators SEE Incinerators - Sludge
Small claims court SEE Law suits - Small claims court
Small generators of hazardous substances SEE Hazardous substances -
Disposal - Small generators
Smell, Sense of: #137
Smith, Jeffrey D.: #314
Smoke detectors: #62
Smoking - Health effects: #4, 7, 9
Smoking, Passive - Health effects: #11, 59
Society of Plastics Industry: #216
Soil (Contaminated) - Bioremediation SEE Bioremediation of hazardous
substances
Soil (Contaminated) - Incinerators SEE Incinerators - Soil
(Contaminated)
Soil erosion: #215, 256
Solar energy SEE Energy, Solar; Photovoltaic Cells
SOLAR HYDROGEN: MOVING BEYOND FOSSIL FUELS: #252
Solid waste - Incinerators SEE Incinerators - Municipal solid
waste
"Solid Waste Disposal Facility Criteria": #232
SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT ALTERNATIVES: REVIEW OF POLICY OPTIONS TO
ENCOURAGE ALTERNATIVES: #111, 112, 113
Solid Waste Management Association of North America: #307
Solidification of hazardous substances SEE Hazardous Substances -
Solidification
Solidification of radioactive waste SEE Radioactive waste -
Solidification
Solvents, Chlorinated: #38
Solvents, Organic: #38, 77, 123, 137(brain/nervous system damage),
313, 316
"Some Notes on Brain Tumor Epidemiology": #266
Source separation SEE Recycling - Source separation
SOURCES AND EFFECTS OF RADIATION: #62
Southdown Company: #242
Southwest Research and Information Center: #238
SOx SEE Sulfur oxide
"Space Available: Economics of Trash Shift as Cities Learn Dumps Aren't So Full": #307
Space debris: #148
"Space Debris Poses Danger to Space Flights": #148
"Space Fills Up with Junk": #148
Species, endangered and extinct SEE Endangered species
"Spontaneous Abortions and Congenital Malformations among the Wives of Men Occupationally
Exposed to Organic Solvents": #267
Stabinsky, Doreen: #306
STANDARD HANDBOOK FOR CIVIL ENGINEERS: #192
Standards - Procedures for setting: #128
State Action on Packaging and Source Reduction (database): #216
STATE INITIATIVES TO INHIBIT DEVELOPMENT OF HAZARDOUS WASTE DISPOSAL
CAPACITY AND TO RESTRICT INTERSTATE SHIPMENT OF HAZARDOUS WASTE: #157
State of the art incinerators, landfills, etc.: #85, 140, 198
STATE OF THE ENVIRONMENT: A VIEW TOWARD THE NINETIES: #61, 110
STATE OF THE WORLD: #67
Steam sterilization of medical waste SEE Medical waste -
Autoclave
Steinsapir, Carol: #159
Steroid hormones: #249, 164
STOP IT: #255
STORM Network: #230
Stringfellow Waste Disposal Site: #313
Strontium-90: #107, 190, 201, 202, 227
Styrene: #128, 149, 258
Styrofoam SEE Polystyrene
Subsidies: #303
substances
SUGGESTED CONTROL MEASURES FOR LANDFILL GAS EMISSIONS: #226
Suicide: #273, 274
Sulfites: #218
Sulfur: #131, 155
Sulfur compounds: #193(List in breast milk)
Sulfur dioxide: #2, 10, 132, 140, 218
Sulfur oxides: #120, 300, 301
Sulfuric acid: #140(mist)
"Summertime Harm to Shield of Ozone Detected Over U.S.": #259
SUN SENTINEL articles: #88(Part 1), 89(Part 2), 90(Part 3), 91(Part 4), 99
Sunrise City: #133, 182
Superfund Act SEE Comprehensive Environmental Response,
Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA)
Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA): #26, 27, 56, 72,
77, 86, 142, 161, 186
SUPERFUND: CIVILIAN FEDERAL AGENCIES SLOW TO CLEAN UP HAZARDOUS
WASTES: #43
SUPERFUND CONTRACTS: EPA PROCEDURES FOR PREVENTING CONFLICTS OF
INTEREST NEED STRENGTHENING: #254
SUPERFUND: EXTENT OF THE NATION'S POTENTIAL WASTE PROBLEM STILL
UNKNOWN: #65
SUPERFUND IMPLEMENTATION PLAN: #150
Superfund Innovative Technology Evaluation (SITE): #49, 150, 192, 306
Superfund series: #160(Part 1), 161(Part 2), 163(Part 3), 166(Part 4), 171(Part 5)
Superfund sites - Above ground storage: #260
Superfund sites - Cancer: #127
Superfund sites - Cleanups - Cost benefits: #172
Superfund sites - Cleanups - Cost effectiveness: #172, 271
Superfund sites - Cleanups - Hazard ranking system (HRS): #160,
161, 166
Superfund sites - Cleanups - National priorities list (NPL): #160, 166, 292
Superfund sites - Cleanups - Potentially responsible parties (PRP): #160, 166
Superfund sites - Cleanups - Preliminary assessment: #166
Superfund sites - Cleanups - Preliminary assessment (PA): #160
Superfund sites - Cleanups - Record of decision: #5, 86, 160, 166, 172
Superfund sites - Cleanups - Remedial action: #160
Superfund sites - Cleanups - Remedial design: #160
Superfund sites - Cleanups - Remedial investigation and feasibility study: #86, 160, 166, 172
Superfund sites - Cleanups - Removal action: #160
Superfund sites - Cleanups - Site inspection (SI): #160
Superfund sites - Cleanups: #51, 59,
77, 86, 87, 133, 139(costs), 150 (costs), 150(technologies), 160, 161, 166, 172, 271, 272, 315
Superfund sites - Groundwater: #163
Superfund sites - Indian lands: #56
Superfund sites - Search: #161
Superfund sites: #102, 122, 139(Ciba-Geigy), 146, 176, 271, 272
Superfund sites SEE ALSO Hazardous substances - Dump sites;
Hazardous (DERP)
SUPERFUND STRATEGY: #150
Supra-linear theory: #184
SURVEY OF SELECTED FIRMS IN THE COMMERCIAL HAZARDOUS WASTE
MANAGEMENT INDUSTRY: #81
Sustainable agriculture SEE Farming (no-pesticide or low-
pesticide)
"Sustainable Development - The Hinge of History": #305
Sustainable development: #296, 297,
305
Synergism: #132, 149
Taconic Resources: #85
TAGS SEE Technical Assistance Grants
TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS: CITIZENSHIP AND THE CHARTER OF INCORPORATION:
#308, 309, 316
Tariffs: #303
TASK FORCE REPORT ON COMPLIANCE WITH ON-SITE HEALTH AND SAFETY
REQUIREMENTS AT HAZARDOUS WASTE INCINERATORS: #237
Taxation: #286
TCCD SEE Dioxins
TCE SEE Trichloroethylene (TCE)
TCLP SEE Toxicity Characteristic Leaching Procedure
TEAM SEE Total Exposure Assessment Method
Technetium-99: #227
Technical assistance grants: #56
Technical Resources Inc.: #150
TECHNICAL SUPPORT DOCUMENT TO PROPOSED DIOXINS AND CADMIUM CONTROL
MEASURE FOR MEDICAL WASTE INCINERATORS - DRAFT: #179
TECHNOLOGIES AND MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES FOR HAZARDOUS WASTE CONTROL:
#113
TELECOMMUNICATION ELECTRICAL PROTECTION: #177
"Temporal Trends in the Prevalence of Congenital Malformations at Birth Based on the Birth
Defects Monitoring Program, United States, 1979-1987": #267
"Ten Year Mortality Study of the Population Involved in the Seveso Incident in 1976": #175
Teratogens: #104, 149
Termite control SEE Chlordane
TESTING THE WATERS (video): #186, 187, 188
Tetrachloroethane: #274
Tetrachloroethylene: #38, 43, 82, 107, 117, 123, 137, 236, 266, 276
Tetraethene SEE Tetrachloroethylene
Tetrahydrofuran: #117
Tetralin: #117
Texaco refinery: #178
Texas Air Control Board: #297
Texas Ecologists: #180
Thalidomide: #4
Thallium: #143, 235, 236, 258
"There's No Free Lunch; The Benefits and Risks of Technologies": #244
ThermalKem (German company): #242
Thermodynamics, Laws of: #124(2nd),
164(2nd), 188(1st)
Third-third rule: #182
Thorium: #62
Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant: #2, 185(accident)
Threshold limit values (TLV): #128, 136, 184(radiation), 185, (radiation), 187189(lead)
Threshold planning quantities (TPQ): #159
Thunderstorms (map): #177
Thurow, Lester: #242
Thyroid cancer SEE Cancer - Thyroid
Times Beach, Mo.: #15, 290
Tobacco industry: #296
Tobacco SEE Smoking
Tolerance limits: #195
Toluene: #24, 79, 107, 115, 117, 258, 266, 274, 276
TOMS SEE Total Ozone Monitoring Spectrometer
TOOLS FOR ACTION: A CITIZEN'S HANDBOOK ON NEW YORK STATE'S SUPERFUND
PROGRAM: #150
Tools of the Trade series: #197(Part 1), 199(Part 2)
Tordan: #128
Tornadoes: #301
Total Exposure Assessment Method (TEAM): #43, 50(report)
TOTAL MASS EMISSIONS FROM A HAZARDOUS WASTE INCINERATOR: #105
Total Ozone Monitoring Spectrometer (TOMS): #285
Toxaphene: #146, 264
TOXIC CHEMICALS IN THE GREAT LAKES BASIN ECOSYSTEM: SOME OBSERVATIONS:
#146
Toxic discharge tax SEE Hazardous substances - Taxation
"Toxic Nightmare on Main Street": #238, 280
TOXIC ORGANIC CHEMICALS DESTRUCTION AND WASTE TREATMENT: #208
"Toxic Pollutants, Science, and Corporate Influence": #128
Toxic Release Inventory: #135
Toxic Substances and Disease Registry SEE Agency for Toxic
Substances and Disease Registry
Toxic Substances Control Act: #103, 107, 142, 180, 187
TOXIC SUBSTANCES: EPA'S CHEMICAL TESTING PROGRAM HAS MADE LITTLE
PROGRESS: #254
Toxic substances SEE Hazardous substances; Hazardous substances - Toxicity ratings
TOXIC THREAT TO INDIAN LAND: #239
Toxic waste dumps SEE Hazardous substances - Dump sites
"Toxic Waste of Indian Lives": #278
Toxicity Characteristic Leaching Procedure (TCLP): #92
TOXICITY OF PESTICIDES TO FISH: #13
TOXICOLOGICAL PROFILE FOR 2,3,7,8-TETRACHLORODIBENZO-P-DIOXIN: #171, 173, 269
TOXICOLOGICAL PROFILE FOR ARSENIC: #173
TOXICOLOGICAL PROFILE FOR CADMIUM: #173
TOXICOLOGICAL PROFILE FOR LEAD: #213
TOXICOLOGICAL PROFILE FOR POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS: #295
TOXICOLOGICAL PROFILE FOR TRICHLOROETHYLENE [DRAFT]: #267
Toxicological profiles SEE Hazardous substances - Toxicological
profiles
Toxicology: #17
Toxics Release Inventory (TRI): #235
TOXICS WATCHDOG: #68
Toxics (year in review) series: #318(Part 1)
TOXNET: #17
TPQ SEE Threshold planning quality
TRACC SEE Tricounty Residents for Alternatives to Chemical
Contamination
TRACE SUBSTANCES IN ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH: #189
TRACK RECORD OF THE HAZARDOUS WASTE INCINERATION INDUSTRY: #206
Trade, Free: #303, 304,305
TRADE PAPERS: #305
Transportation, Mass SEE Mass transportation
Transuranic waste: #302
"Trapped in the Impoverished Middle Class": #286
Trash-to-Steam SEE Incinerators - Energy production
TRENDS IN CANCER MORTALITY IN INDUSTRIALIZED COUNTRIES: #265
"Trends in Cancer Mortality: US White Males and Females": #266
TRI SEE Toxics Release Inventory
Trichlorobenzene: #128
Trichloroethylene (TCE) : #25, 38, 41, 43, 80,
82, 107, 110, 117, 123, 137, 163226, 234
Trichloroethylene (TCE) - Health effects: #267, 276
Trichlorophenol: #171, 173, 258
Tricounty Residents for Alternatives to Chemical Contamination: #230
Trihalomethanes: #84
Trimethylbenzene: #149
Tritium: #62
TRU SEE Transuranic waste; Radioactive waste
Trucks - Emissions SEE Diesel fumes
Trugreen (subsidiary of Waste Management, Inc.): #258
Turpentine: #117
Typhoons: #301
UCS SEE Union of Concerned Scientists
Ultraviolet radiation: #70, 246, 259
Ultraviolet radiation SEE ALSO Ozone layer
UN SEE United Nations
UNDERGROUND STORAGE TANK CORRECTIVE ACTION TECHNOLOGIES: #229
Underground storage tanks - Regulations: #229
Underground storage tanks: #24, 229(water pollution)
UNFINISHED BUSINESS: A COMPARATIVE ASSESSMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL
PROBLEMS: #16, 168
Union Carbide Corporation: #11, 58,
97, 170(attack on CCHW), 211
Union of Concerned Scientists: #145, 201, 317
Uniroyal: #250
UNIT OPERATIONS FOR TREATMENT OF HAZARDOUS INDUSTRIAL WASTES: #208
United Nations: #126, 131
United Nations Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR): #201
United Pest Control: #258
UNITED STATES AIR FORCE PERSONNEL AND EXPOSURE TO HERBICIDE ORANGE,
INTERIM REPORT FOR PERIOD MARCH 1984- FEBRUARY 1988: #73
United Technologies: #80
UNSCEAR SEE United Nations Committee on the Effects of Atomic
Radiation
Uranium: #100, 145(health effects), 148, 302, 317
Uranium mining: #201, 202
"U.S. Admits Waste in Its Contracts; Study says Unsupervised Jobs Cost Government Billions":
#315
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency SEE Environmental Protection
Agency - U.S.
"U.S. Hazwaste Market to Double by 1995?": #236, 237
U.S. Metals Refining Company: #2
U.S. MILITARY'S TOXIC LEGACY: AMERICA'S WORST ENVIRONMENTAL ENEMY: #223, 224, 227
U.S. Public Interest Research Group: #56
"U.S. Seeks Tighter Rules on Ozone Protection": #149
U.S.-Canada Free Trade Agreement: #304
"Use of Small Mammals (Voles) to Assess a Hazardous Waste Site at Love Canal, Niagara
Falls, New York": #276
"Using Fewer Pesticides Is Seen as Beneficial": #240
USING YOUR RIGHT TO KNOW: #159
"U.S.-Mexico-Canada Free Trade Negotiations": #304
UST SEE Underground storage tanks
Vadose zone (water): #163
VanDeventer, Mary Lou: #50
Varnish: #137
Vegetable oil: #117
Velsicol Chemical Co.: #46
Vendor Information System for Innovative Treatment Technologies: #306
Venturi scrubbers SEE Incinerators - Scrubbers (Venturi)
Vertac Chemical: #311
Veterans administration: #12, 212
Vianna, Nicholas: #276
Vicon Incinerator: #45
Viet Nam veterans: #212, 250
Viet Nam veterans SEE ALSO Agent Orange; Dioxin
Vinyl chloride: #6, 7, 68, 79, 95,
110, 128, 266
Vinylidine chloride: #128
Viruses: #266
VISITT SEE Vendor Information System for Innovative Treatment
Technologies
Volcanoes: #300(Mt. Pinatubo)
Von Roll, Inc. (Switzerland): #315
WALL STREET JOURNAL: #310
Walthen, Thomas A.: #303, 304
WAR ON WASTE: #162, 289
War on Waste Coalition: #241
Warren, N.J. incinerator: #114
WASTE AGE: #109
Waste audits: #135
Waste avoidance SEE Pollution - Prevention; Hazardous substances - Industrial use and generation; Hazardous substances - Use reduction; Hazardous substances - Waste reduction
Waste disposal: #296
WASTE DISPOSAL EFFECTS ON GROUNDWATER: #163
"Waste Hauler Fined $1 Million in Price-Fixing Case": #141
Waste haulers: #40, 88, 89, 90, 91,
122, 141(price fixing), 164, 231, 268
Waste haulers SEE ALSO Browning Ferris International, Waste
Management
Waste incinerators SEE Incinerators - Municipal solid waste; Hazardous substances - Incineration; Incinerators
Waste, Industrial/business: #111, 112,
122
Waste industry - Crime SEE Organized crime
Waste industry - Federal chartering: #122
Waste industry - Licensing: #122
Waste industry - Monopoly: #268
Waste industry - Organized crime: #299
Waste industry: #51, 65, 88, 89, 90,
91), 135(Toxic Release Inventory), 142, 158, 210, 253, 257
Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, Carlsbad Caverns, New Mexico: (WIPP): #202, 302
Waste management - Costs: #307
Waste management - Legislation: #307
Waste management - Local control: #307
WASTE MANAGEMENT AS IF THE FUTURE MATTERED (book and video): #167
Waste Management, Inc. - Environmental group funding: #115(list
of)
Waste Management, Inc. - Subsidiaries: #93
Waste Management, Inc.: #14, 28, 34, 40, 48,
51, 64, 66, 71, 79,
85, 88, 89, 90, 91, 93, 99, 122(Chicago), 141, 156, 157, 164 (subsidiaries), 220, 228, 231, 255, 258, 268, 288, 299(San Diego report), 307
WASTE MANAGEMENT, INC.: AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ENVIRONMENTAL CRIMES AND
OTHER MISDEEDS: #288
Waste, Medical SEE Medical waste
WASTE NOT: #75, 232
"Waste Plant Is Threatened with Closure": #287
Waste, Post consumer: #111, 112
Waste reduction
Waste reduction: #307
Waste reduction SEE ALSO Hazardous substances - Industrial use
and
Waste to energy SEE Incinerators
"Waste to Energy? The Burning Question": #307
"Waste Trade Briefing for Co-sponsors of the Waste Export and Import Prohibition Act [H.R.
2580]: #257
Waste wars: #238(Part 1), 239(Part
2)
WASTES IN MARINE ENVIRONMENTS: #32
Waste-Tech (subsidiary of Amoco): #239
"Waste-to-Energy Ash: Hazardous or Non-Hazardous Waste?": #191
WASTEWISE: A COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER (video): #289
Wastewise (Halton Hills, Canada): #289
Water, Drinking SEE Lead - Drinking water; Water supply; Water quality; Water - Testing; Water -
Groundwater
Water, Groundwater - Cleanup: #163, 229, 232
Water, Groundwater: #69, 79(landfills), 98, 123(disease), 137 (organic solvents), 139, 149, 152, 163(cleanup) (pump and treat), 272
Water pollution - Agriculture: #20
Water pollution - Agriculture SEE ALSO Pesticides - Agriculture;
Non-point source water pollution
Water pollution - Landfills: #4, 139, 152, 163(pump and treat)
Water pollution: #149
Water pollution SEE ALSO Non-point source water pollution; Rivers and streams - pollution
Water quality: #20
Water Quality Act: #79
Water Quality Agreement - Definition of toxic substance: #284
Water supply - Long Island: #11
Water supply - Pollution: #12, 80
Water supply hotline: #46
Water, Surface: #69, 163
Water table: #163
Water testing: #9, 19
WaterTest Corporation: #9, 19
Waving lotions SEE Hair wave lotions
Waxman, Henry: #178
Wayne Disposal: #180
WE ALL LIVE DOWN STREAM: THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER AND THE NATIONAL TOXICS
CRISIS: #168, 233
Weather SEE Climate
Weed B Gone SEE Ortho Weed B Gone
Weed killers SEE Herbicides; and names of specific weed killers,
such as 2,4-D
Weedone: #250
Weight of evidence: #284
Welding fumes: #266
Wells SEE Groundwater; Pesticides -
Drinking water; Pesticides - Groundwater; Herbicides
West Valley, N.Y.: #69
Western Waste Industries: #141
Westinghouse: #121, 124, 142, 180, 295(PCB), 317
Wetlands: #251
Whales: #144(PCB)
WHAT CHEMICALS EACH INDUSTRY USES: #107, 159
What Has Gone Wrong series: #292(Part 1)
What We Must Do series: #88(Part l), 89(Part 2),90(Part 3), 91(Part 4), 93(Part 5), 96(Part 6) 97(Part 7), 98(Part 8), 102(Part 9), 106(Part 10), 107(Part 11), 112(Part 12), 113(Part 13), (Part 14 not
published), 122(Part 15), 286(Part 16),
288(Part 17)
WHAT WORKS REPORT NO. 1: AIR POLLUTION SOLUTIONS:
#296, 297
What Works series: #296(Part 1), 297(Part 2), 298(Part 3)
Wheelabrator Technologies (a subsidiary of Waste Management, Inc.): #83, 93, 140,
191, 220, 255
"Where Have All the Toxic Chemicals Gone": #152
Whistle blowers: #42, 65, 254, 298
"White House Should Stay with Lead Cleanup": #294
"White House Shuns Key Role in Lead Exposure": #294
"White Paper on the Feasibility of Alternatives to Incineration of Wastes at the Vertac Site in
Jacksonville, Arkansas": #206, 311
"Who the Rich Are and What They Should Pay": #286
WHO'S KILLING CALVERT CITY (Frontline broadcast): #132
WHY EPA IS LIKE IT IS AND WHAT CAN BE DONE ABOUT IT: #210, 298, 318
"Why Our Economic Alarm Is Sounding": #286
Wildlife: #144(PCB's), 146, 150, 263(sexual development), 264(sexual development)
Windscale Nuclear Fuel Processing Plant: #245
WINDSCALE: THE NUCLEAR LAUNDRY (British television broadcast): #245
Wingspread Statement series: #263(Part 1), 264(Part 2)
WIPP SEE Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
Wisconsin University: #316(1991 report on solvents and HDPE)
Wistar Institute: #8
WM Pest Control: #258
WMI SEE Waste Management, Inc.
Wood ash - Radioactivity SEE Radioactive waste - Wood ash
"Wood Ash: the Unregulated Radwaste": #282
Wood burning stoves - Emissions: #2
Wood-treatment waste - Incinerators SEE Incinerators - Wood -
Treated
WORK OF NATIONS: #315
Work on Waste: #228, 232
Work place - Hazardous substances SEE Hazardous Substances - Work
place
WORKBOOK: #147, 158, 238
WORKERS WITH MULTIPLE CHEMICAL SENSITIVITIES: #165
Working Group on Community Right to Know: #72, 159
WORLD RESOURCES 1988-1989:
#170
WorldWatch Institute: #67
WRAPPED IN PLASTICS: THE ENVIRONMENTAL CASE FOR REDUCING PLASTICS
PACKAGING: #216
WRENCHING DEBATE GAZETTE: #96, 105, 114, 129
WRITING FOR ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE: #240
WTI (hazardous waste) Incinerator: #255, 287, 288, 298, 315
"WTI Sought Quayle's Aid": #315
"WTI's Hazardous Waste Incinerator in East Liverpool, Ohio": #315
X-rays: #200, 202, 266
X-RAYS: HEALTH EFFECTS OF COMMON EXAMS: #106
Xylene: #24, 107, 117, 258, 276, meta-Xylene: #117, ortho-Xylene:
#43, 117, para-Xylene: #43, 117
Yale University School of Medicine: #313
Yankee Rowe (nuclear power plant): #317
"You Can't Get There from Here": #292, 315
Yucca Mountain Waste disposal site: #261, 302
Zero discharge: #154, 155, 185, 186, 187, 214(lead), 225, 305(trade restrictions), 284, 310(dioxin)
Zero Discharge Alliance: #225
Zero tolerance of toxic chemicals SEE Hazardous substances - Health
effects; names of specific compounds such as Dioxins - Threshold
levels
Zinc: #92, 131, 143, 258