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• Taking a Stand on the Environment, by Helen P. Rogers (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• Diazinon and Chlorpyrifos Loads in the San Joaquin River Basin, California, January and February 2000, by Charles R. Kratzer, Celia Zamora, and Donna L. Knifong (PDF at USGS)

• Bioremediation for Marine Oil Spills (1991), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Ocean Incineration: Its Role in Managing Hazardous Waste (OTA-O-313; 1986), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (page images at HathiTrust)

• Rethinking the Ozone Problem in Urban and Regional Air Pollution (1991), by National Research Council Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Acid Rain and Transported Air Pollutants: Implications for Public Policy (1984), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• Identifying and Controlling Pulmonary Toxicants: Background Paper (1992), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• The Age of Smoke: Environmental Policy in Germany and the United States, 1880-1970 (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c2009), by Frank Uekötter (page images at Pitt)

• The Age of Smoke: Environmental Policy in Germany and the United States, 1880-1970 (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c2009), by Frank Uekötter (page images at Pitt)

• Catching Our Breath: Next Steps for Reducing Urban Ozone (1989), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• Protecting Visibility in National Parks and Wilderness Areas (1993), by National Research Council Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Changing by Degrees: Steps To Reduce Greenhouse Gases (1991), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• Rethinking the Ozone Problem in Urban and Regional Air Pollution (1991), by National Research Council Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Modeling Mobile-Source Emissions (2000), by National Research Council Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Cost Effectiveness of Carbon Monoxide Control Strategies (Chicago: Illinois Institute for Environmental Quality, 1973), by Jay E. Norco (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Smog: A Report to the People (c1972), by Lester Lees, Mark Braly, Mahlon Easterling, Robert Fisher, Kenneth Heitner, James Henry, Patricia J. Horne, Burton H. Klein, James E. Krier, W. David Montgomery, Guy J. Pauker, Gary Rubenstein, and John Trijonis (PDF at Caltech)

• Air Pollution Measurements in Pittsburgh, January-February, 1963 (Washington: U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Division of Air Pollution, 1963), by Seymour Hochheiser, Max Burchett, and Herbert J. Dunsmore (page images at HathiTrust)

• Expanding Metropolitan Highways: Implications for Air Quality and Energy Use (Special Report 245, 1995), by National Research Council Transportation Research Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Science and Judgement in Risk Assessment (1994), by National Research Council Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Protecting the Nation's Groundwater from Contamination (2 volumes (OTA-O-233 and OTA-O-234); 1984), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beneath the Bottom Line: Agricultural Approaches To Reduce Agrichemical Contamination of Groundwater (1990), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• Groundwater Contamination, by National Research Council Geophysics Study Committee (page images with commentary at NAP)

• President Clinton's Clean Water Initiative: Analysis of Benefits and Costs (EPA 800-R-94-002; 1994), by United States Environmental Protection Agency Office of Water
  • PDF at epa.gov
  • page images at HathiTrust; some front matter missing

• Opportunities in Applied Environmental Research and Development, by National Research Council Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Clean Coastal Waters: Understanding and Reducing the Effects of Nutrient Pollution (2000), by National Research Council Commission on Geosciences, Environment, and Resources (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Water Pollution Data: Regional Water Pollution Control Boards, State of California (Archives Series Report #5; Berkeley: Water Resources Center, University of California, 1959), ed. by Gerald J. Giefer and Cynthia Barnes (page images at HathiTrust)

• Diazinon and Chlorpyrifos Loads in the San Joaquin River Basin, California, January and February 2000, by Charles R. Kratzer, Celia Zamora, and Donna L. Knifong (PDF at USGS)

• Irrigation-Induced Water Quality Problems: What Can Be Learned from the San Joaquin Valley Experience, by National Research Council Committee on Irrigation-Induced Water Quality Problems (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Hazardous Waste Contamination of Water Resources (Superfund Clean-Up Policy and the Seymour Recycling Case): Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight of the Committee on Public Works and Transportation, House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth Congress, Second Session, March 13, 14, 15, 1984: Witnesses, Office of Technology Assessment, Industry (Washington: GPO, 1985), by United States House Committee on Public Works and Transportation (page images at HathiTrust)

• Western Maryland Mine Drainage Survey, 1962-1965 (7 parts in 3 volumes), by Thomas C. Hopkins (PDF files at mdsoar.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Science Priorities for the Human Dimensions of Global Change (1994), by National Research Council (HTML with commentary at NAP)
• Toil and Toxics: Workplace Struggles and Political Strategies for Occupational Health (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by James C. Robinson (HTML at UC Press)
• One Earth, One Future: Our Changing Global Environment (1990), by Cheryl Simon Silver and Ruth S. DeFries (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Vanishing Borders: Protecting the Planet in the Age of Globalization (c2000), by Hilary F. French (PDF files with commentary at worldwatch.org)

• Arctic Pollution Issues: A State of the Arctic Environment Report (1997), by Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (illustrated HTML in Norway)

• The Coase Theorem: A Study in Economic Epistemology (Tyler, TX: Institute for Christian Economics, c1992), by Gary North (PDF with commentary at garynorth.com)
• 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 Limits to Growth: A Report for the Club of Rome's Project on the Predicament of Mankind (New York: Universe Books, 1972), by Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, Jørgen Randers, and William Behrens (multiple formats with commentary at donellameadows.org)

• Pollution in a Promised Land: An Environmental History of Israel (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2002), by Alon Tal (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• Our Synthetic Environment (published under Lewis Herber pseudonym; New York: Knopf, 1962), by Murray Bookchin, contrib. by William A. Albrecht (page images at HathiTrust)

• Trouble in the Air: Global Warming and the Privatised Atmosphere (ca. 2005), ed. by Patrick Bond and Rehana Dada (PDF at The Corner House)

• Fundamentals of Air Pollution Engineering (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, c1988), by Richard C. Flagan and John H. Seinfeld (PDF files at Caltech)
• Environmental Health Series: Air Pollution (full serial archives)
• Airborne Particles in Museums (Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, 1993), by W. W. Nazaroff, Mary P. Ligocki, Lynn G. Salmon, Glen Rowan Cass, Theresa Fall, Michael C. Jones, Harvey I. H. Liu, and Timothy Ma (PDF and page images with commentary at getty.edu and Google)
• Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons: Evaluation of Sources and Effects (1983), by National Research Council Board on Toxicology and Environmental Health Hazards (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Blylarmet: När Forskare, Industri och Miljöopinion Hamnar i Konflikt; En Fallstudie (originally published 1983; updated ebook edition 2023, in Swedish), by Per Lindeberg (PDF with commentary in Sweden)

• Lethal Dietary Toxicities of Environmental Pollutants to Birds (Washington: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 1975), by Elwood F. Hill, Robert G. Heath, James W. Spann, and Joseph D. Williams (page images at HathiTrust)

• Agricultural Implications of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident (c2013), ed. by Tomoko M. Nakanishi and Keitaro Tanoi (multiple formats with commentary at SpringerLink)

• Freshwater Microplastics: Emerging Environmental Contaminants? (Cham: Springer Open, c2018), ed. by Martin Wagner and Scott Lambert (PDF and EPub with commentary at Springer)
• Water Quality Criteria (second edition; Sacramento, CA: Resources Agency of California, 1963), by California State Water Quality Control Board, ed. by Jack Edward McKee and Harold W. Wolf, contrib. by United States Division of Water Supply and Pollution Control (page images at HathiTrust)
• Algae and Water Pollution: An Illustrated Manual on the Identification, Significance, and Control of Algae in Water Supplies and in Polluted Water (Cincinnati: Municipal Environmental Research Laboratory, Office of Research and Development, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1977), by C. Mervin Palmer, ed. by Ronald F. Lewis, illust. by Harold J. Walter and Sharon Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Water Chlorine (Residual) No. 1, Study Number 35: Report of a Study Conducted by Analytical Reference Service (Cincinnati: U.S. Public Health Service, Consumer Protection and Environmental Health Service, Environmental Control Administration, 1969), by Raymond J. Lishka, Earl F. McFarren, and J. H. Parker (page images at HathiTrust)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.