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Fossil fuels -- Environmental aspects

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• Decarbonizing Development: Three Steps to a Zero-Carbon Future (Washington: World Bank, 2015), by Marianne Fay, Stephane Hallegatte, Adrien Vogt-Schilb, Julie Rozenberg, Ulf Narloch, and Tom Kerr (PDF with commentary at worldbank.org)

• Coal in Our Veins: A Personal Journey (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2012), by Erin Ann Thomas (PDF files with commentary at Project Muse)

• Environmental Issues of Synthetic Transportation Fuels From Coal (1982), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

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• The Politics of Fossil Fuel Subsidies and Their Reform (Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2018), ed. by Jakob Skovgaard and Harro van Asselt (PDF files with commentary at Cambridge University Press)

• Coal: Energy for the Future (1995), by National Research Council Board on Energy and Environmental Systems (HTML with commentary at NAP)

• Coal Pyrolysis (Amsterdam et al.: Elsevier, 1982), by George R. Gavalas (PDF files at Caltech)
• Points on Coal and the Coal Business (Myerstown, PA: Feese and Uhrich, 1887), by Charles Miesse
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Coal Question: An Inquiry Concerning the Progress of the Nation, and the Probable Exhaustion of Our Coal-Mines (based on the second edition, 1866), by William Stanley Jevons (HTML with commentary at eoearth.org)

• The Economic Geology of The Central Coalfield Of Scotland, Area IX: Carluke, Strathaven, And Larkhall, With Braidwood, Netherburn, Auchenheath, Blackwood, And Stonehouse (Edinburgh: Printed under authority of HMSO by Morrison and Gibb, 1921), by L. W. Hinxman, R. G. Carruthers, Murray Macgregor, and C. H. Dinham (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Coal Fields of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Washington and Greene Counties: Fields of Coking Coal Located in Eastern Greene and Southeastern Washington Counties, Owned and Largely Controlled by J.V. Thompson (c1907), by John W. Boileau (page images at HathiTrust)

• Continuous Hydraulic Classification: Constitution of the Teeter Column Throughout Its Depth (Washington: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1946), by Glen Dale Coe, I. L. Feld, M. F. Williams, and William Hawes Coghill (page images at HathiTrust)

• Coal in Our Veins: A Personal Journey (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2012), by Erin Ann Thomas (PDF files with commentary at Project Muse)

• Coal-Pyrite Flotation in Concentrated Pulp: A Pilot Plant Study (Bureau of Mines Report of Investigations #8239, 1977), by Kenneth J. Miller (page images at HathiTrust)

• Coal Exports and Port Development (1981), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Coal: Energy for the Future (1995), by National Research Council Board on Energy and Environmental Systems (HTML with commentary at NAP)
• The Direct Use of Coal: Prospects and Problems of Production and Combustion (1979), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Federal Financial Incentives to Induce Early Experience Producing Unconventional Liquid Fuels (c2008), by Frank A. Camm, James T. Bartis, and Charles J. Bushman (PDF with commentary at rand.org)

• An Assessment of Development and Production Potential of Federal Coal Leases (1981), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Unconventional Fossil-Based Fuels: Economic and Environmental Trade-Offs (2008), by Michael A. Toman, Aimee E. Curtright, David Ortiz, Joel Darmstadter, and Brian Shannon (PDF with commentary at rand.org)

• Leonardite: A Lignite Byproduct (report of investigations 5611; Washington: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1960), by Walter W. Fowkes and Clyde M. Frost (page images at HathiTrust)

• Audels Oil Burner Guide: Installing, Servicing, Repairing (New York: T. Audel and Co., c1947), by Frank Duncan Graham (page images at HathiTrust)

• Beyond Malthus: Nineteen Dimensions of the Population Challenge (c1999), by Lester R. Brown, Gary T. Gardner, and Brian Halweil (PDF with commentary at worldwatch.org)

• Ecologically Based Pest Management: New Solutions for a New Century (1996), by National Research Council Board on Agriculture (page images with commentary at NAP)

• State of the Apes 2015: Industrial Agriculture and Ape Conservation (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2015), ed. by Helga Rainer, Alison White, and Annette Lanjouw (PDF files with commentary at Cambridge University Press)
• Agriculture, Trade, and Environment: Achieving Complementary Policies (1995), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Bodies in Protest: Environmental Illness and the Struggle Over Medical Knowledge (New York and London: New York University Press, c1997), by J. Stephen Kroll-Smith and H. Hugh Floyd (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

• Architecture in the Anthropocene: Encounters Among Design, Deep Time, Science and Philosophy (Ann Arbor: Open Humanities Press, 2013), ed. by E. Turpin (HTML and PDF with commentary at Open Humanities Press)

• Arsenic, by Assembly of Life Sciences (U.S.) (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Asbestiform Fibers: Nonoccupational Health Risks, by National Research Council Committee on Nonoccupational Health Risks of Asbestiform Fibers (page images with commentary at NAP)

• IPCC Special Report on Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage (2005), by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (PDF files at ipcc.ch)
• Implications of Rising Carbon Dioxide Content of the Atmosphere: A Statement of Trends and Implications of Carbon Dioxide Research Reviewed at a Conference of Scientists (New York: Conservation Foundation, ca. 1963), by Conservation Foundation, contrib. by Noel D. Eichhorn (page images at HathiTrust)

• Toxicological and Performance Aspects of Oxygenated Motor Vehicle Fuels (1996), by National Research Council Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Our Car as Power Plant (Amsterdam: IOS Press, c2014), by Ad van Wijk and Leendert Verhoef (PDF at thegreenvillage.org)

• New Developments in Biotechnology: Field-Testing Engineered Organisms, Genetic and Ecological Issues (OTA-BA-350; 1988), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• Greening IT: How a Greening IT Can Form a Solid Base for a Low-Carbon Society (c2009), ed. by Adrian T. Sobotta, Irene N. Sobotta, and John Gøtze
  • PDF with commentary at wfsf.org
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Assessment of Technologies for Determining Cancer Risks From the Environment (1981), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Green Carbon: The Role of Natural Forests in Carbon Storage, Part 1: A Green Carbon Account of Australia's South-Eastern Eucalypt Forests, and Policy Implications (2008), by Brendan G. Mackey, Heather Keith, Sandra L. Berry, and David Lindenmayer (PDF with commentary at ANU E Press)
• Carbon Trading: A Critical Conversation on Climate Change, Privatisation and Power (2006), by Larry Lohmann, ed. by Niclas Hallstrom, Olle Nordberg, and Robert Osterbergh (PDF at The Corner House)

• The Carbon Neutral Myth: Offset Indulgences for Your Climate Sins (Amsterdam: Carbon Trade Watch, 2007), by Kevin Smith (PDF at carbontradewatch.org)

• Welcome to the Green Village (Amsterdam: IOS Press, c2013), by Ad van Wijk (PDF at thegreenvillage.org)
• Transit-Oriented Displacement or Community Dividends? Understanding the Effects of Smarter Growth on Communities (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2019), by Karen Chapple and Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)

• Review of the Draft Federal Long-Term Monitoring Plan for the Colorado River Below Glen Canyon Dam (1994), by National Research Council Water Science and Technology Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Right Research: Modelling Sustainable Research Practices in the Anthropocene (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2021), ed. by Chelsea Miya, Oliver Rossier, and Geoffrey Rockwell (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• The North, the South, and the Environment: Ecological Constraints and the Global Economy, ed. by V. Bhaskar and Andrew Glyn (HTML at UNU Press)

• Toxicological Profile for 1,4-Dichlorobenzene (updated version; 1998), by Research Triangle Institute (page images at HathiTrust)

• Toxicological Profile for 1,2-Dichloroethene (updated version; 1996), by Research Triangle Institute (page images at HathiTrust)

• Forests and Food: Addressing Hunger and Nutrition Across Sustainable Landscapes (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2015), ed. by Bhaskar Vira, Christoph Wildburger, and Stephanie Mansourian (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Six Arguments for a Greener Diet: How a More Plant-Based Diet Could Save Your Health and the Environment (Washington, DC: Center for Science in the Public Interest, c2006), by Michael F. Jacobson (PDF files at cspinet.org)

• The Anthrobscene (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, c2014), by Jussi Parikka (multiple formats with commentary at umn.edu)

• The Anthrobscene (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, c2014), by Jussi Parikka (multiple formats with commentary at umn.edu)

• An Evaluation of the U.S. Navy's Extremely Low Frequency Communications System Ecological Monitoring Program (1997), by National Research Council Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology (page images with commentary at NAP)

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