Environmental Policy and Public Health : Air Pollution, Global Climate Change, and Wilderness.

Intro -- ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY AND PUBLIC HEALTH -- Contents -- Figures and Table -- Foreword -- Preface -- The Author -- The Contributors -- Chapter 1: The Clean Air Act and the National Environmental Policy Act -- The Clean Air Act -- The London Fog and the Donora Fog -- Early Policy Responses to Air Pollution -- The First Clean Air Act and Its Amendments -- National Ambient Air Quality Standards -- Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee -- State Implementation Plans -- SIPs and Transportation -- Permit Requirements -- Hazardous Air Pollutants -- New Source Performance Standards -- Prevention of Significant Deterioration -- Clean Air Interstate Quality Rule -- The National Environmental Policy Act -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Discussion Questions -- Chapter 2: Particulate Matter -- Characteristics and Deposition -- Health Effects -- History -- Epidemiological Studies -- Cardiovascular Disease and Particulate Matter -- Respiratory Effects of Concentrated Ambient Particles -- Particulate Matter and Public Policy -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Discussion Questions -- Chapter 3: Ozone -- Health Effects -- Pulmonary Function -- Inflammation -- Airway Reactivity and Inflammation -- Epidemiological Studies of Populations Exposed to Ozone in Ambient Air -- Mortality -- Nitrogen Oxides -- The Ozone Standard in NAAQS -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Discussion Questions -- Chapter 4: Sulfur Dioxide and Acid Rain -- SO2 Health Effects -- Health Policy: National Ambient Air Quality Standards -- Acid Rain -- Environmental Effects of Acid Rain and Deposition -- Acid Rain and Environmental Policy -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Discussion Questions -- Chapter 5: Environmental Tobacco Smoke -- The History of Smoking and Disease -- Tobacco Smoke and Disease -- Health Effects of Passive Smoking -- Lung Cancer Epidemiology -- Carcinogens in Cigarette Smoke -- Smoking Cessation.

Policy Controls on Tobacco and Cigarette Smoking -- Global Smoking Today -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Discussion Questions -- Chapter 6: Children's Environmental Health: Mercury and Lead -- The Unique Vulnerability of Children -- Mercury as a Case Study -- Lead as a Case Study -- Outdoor Air Pollution as a Case Study -- The National Children's Study -- Regulatory Policy and Children -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Discussion Questions -- Chapter 7: The Role of Community Advocacy Groups in Environmental Protection: Example of September 11, 2001 -- The Disaster -- Snapshot 2002: WTC Environmental Summit -- Snapshot 2003: EPA Inspector General Releases Reports -- Snapshot 2003-2004: Gains on Rebuilding Environmental Protections -- Snapshot 2004: Bellevue WTC Health Impacts Clinic and EPA WTC Expert Technical Review Panel -- Snapshot 2006: WTC Bellevue Environmental Health Center Announced -- Snapshot 2009: Community Advisory Committee -- Summary and Lessons Learned -- Key Terms -- Discussion Questions -- Chapter 8: The Medical Response to an Environmental Disaster: Lessons from the World Trade Center Attacks -- Immediate Response to Environmental Exposure -- Analysis of World Trade Center Dust -- Role of the Medical Community in Identifying Adverse Health Effects in Diverse Populations -- The Fire Department of New York -- The WTC Workers Medical Screening Program -- Local Residents, Workers, and Children -- Residents -- Workers -- Children -- WTC Environmental Health Center -- The WTC Health Registry -- Lessons Learned -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Discussion Questions -- Chapter 9: Chlorofluorocarbons and the Development of the Ozone Hole -- Chlorofluorocarbons -- Ozone Layer -- Polar Ozone Chemistry -- Field Measurements of Atmospheric Trace Species -- Ozone Depletion and UV-B Radiation -- Biologic Effects of Ultraviolet Radiation.

Policy and the Montreal Protocol -- Analyzing the Effectiveness of the Montreal Protocol -- Ozone Depletion and Climate Change -- Medihaler Impediments to Controlling Ozone Depletion -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Discussion Questions -- Chapter 10: Global Warming Science and Consequences -- Global Warming Basic Science: Greenhouse Gases -- Environmental Consequences of Global Warming and Climate Change -- Arctic Ice -- Alaska -- Antarctica -- Glaciers -- Sea Level Rise -- Biodiversity -- Deforestation -- Bleaching of Coral Reefs -- Hurricanes and Tropical Storms -- Thermohaline Gulf Stream -- Human Health Effects -- Heat Stress -- Allergic Diseases, Asthma, and Hay Fever with Increased Pollen and Global Warming -- Biomass Burning and Hut Lung -- Vector-Borne Diseases -- Dengue Fever -- Global Warming and the International Community -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Discussion Questions -- Chapter 11: National Green Energy Plan -- Energy Efficiency -- The Electrical Grid -- Lighting -- Oil -- Consumption -- Economic Costs -- Tar Sands -- Environmental Effects -- Oil and the Government -- Natural Gas -- Hydrogen Gas -- Coal -- Mountaintop Removal -- Coal-Fired Power Plants -- Carbon Capture and Storage -- Biofuels -- Algae -- Jatropha -- Palm Oil -- Ethanol -- Nuclear -- Wind -- Geothermal Energy and Hydropower -- Geothermal Energy -- Hydropower -- Biomass and Hut Lung -- Solar -- Summary: The Future U.S. Energy Plan -- Key Terms -- Discussion Questions -- Chapter 12: Climate Change Policy Options -- International Efforts to Prevent Climate Change -- Kyoto Climate Treaty -- The European Union and Climate Change -- Copenhagen COP15 -- State, City, and Private Actions on Global Warming -- State and Regional Actions -- City Actions -- Private Actions -- U.S. Judiciary Branch and Climate Change -- The EPA, Greenhouse Gases, and the Supreme Court.

California's Automobile Regulation -- Global Warming and the Endangered Species Act -- Private Companies and CO2 Emissions -- U.S. Executive Branch and Climate Change -- The Climate Change Science Program -- Changes under the Obama Administration -- Congress: The Climate Stewardship Act of 2003 Through the Climate Security Acts of 2008 and 2009 -- Climate Stewardship Act -- The Sanders-Boxer Bill, the New McCain-Lieberman Bill, and the Kerry-Snowe-Kennedy Bills, 2009 -- Compromising on Policy Related to Climate Change -- Economic Factors Surrounding Global Warming and Potential Solutions -- The Stern Report -- Economics of Cap and Trade -- Economics of Global Warming Solutions -- Prospects for Climate Change Legislation Going Forward -- Waxman-Markey -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Discussion Questions -- Chapter 13: Environmental Policy and the Land: Wilderness Preservation -- The History of Wilderness Protection -- The Wilderness Act -- The History of Wilderness Protection Evolving from New York State's Leadership -- Forever Wild -- Debates over Wilderness -- The Purity Theory -- Multiple Land Use Example: The Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (William N. Rom) -- Logging and Protection in Wilderness: The BWCA Again -- Mechanized Vehicles: BWCA Becomes BWCA Wilderness -- Problems with Implementation of the Wilderness Act -- Executive Orders for Wilderness Protection -- Current Wilderness Legislation -- The Land and Water Conservation Fund and the Forest Legacy Program -- National Wild and Scenic Rivers Act -- The Endangered Species Act -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Discussion Questions -- Chapter 14: Environmental Policy and Advocacy Groups: The Wilderness Society: A Case Study -- Federal Public Lands and Wilderness -- Why Wilderness? -- Political Framework -- The Wilderness Society and Public Policy -- Congress -- Public Land Legislation.

Administrative Actions -- Administrative Appeals and the Courts -- Local Advocacy -- Wilderness Future -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Discussion Questions -- Chapter 15: Alaska: America's Wilderness Frontier: A Case Study -- Arctic National Wildlife Refuge -- Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act: National Parks, Wildlife Refuges, and Wilderness -- Oil Versus Wilderness on the ANWR -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Discussion Questions -- Chapter 16: The Clean Water Act and Water Ecosystems -- The Clean Water Act -- Clean Water Act Regulations -- Clean Water Act and Wastewater Treatment -- Violations of CWA's Regulations -- Protection of Wetlands under the Clean Water Act -- Safe Drinking Water Act -- Arsenic Contamination in Water -- Water-Borne Diseases -- Water Ecosystems and Environmental and Public Health -- The Klamath River Dam Removal and Water Diversion Projects -- The Florida Everglades -- The Hetch Hetchy Dam Controversy -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Discussion Questions -- Chapter 17: Toxic Chemicals in the Environment: Government Regulations and Public Health -- Toxic Substances Control Act -- European Approach to Toxic Chemicals: REACH -- Limitations of the TSCA -- Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (Superfund) -- Resource Conservation and Recovery Act -- Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Discussion Questions -- Notes -- Index -- EULA.

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