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America's environmental report card : are we making the grade? / Harvey Blatt.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Blatt, Harvey, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pollution--United States.
- Pollution.
- United States--Environmental conditions.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (382 p.)
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The MIT Press, [2011]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- An accessible overview of the most important environmental issues facing the United States, with new and updated material.
- Contents:
- Water: no cholesterol, fat free, zero sugar
- Infrastructure: pipes, wires, roads, bridges, railroads, dams, airports, and levees
- Floods: when the levees break
- Garbage: trash talk
- Soil, crops, and food: dirt and nutrition
- Fossil fuels: energy from the past
- Alternative energy sources: energy for the future
- The nuclear energy controversy: radiation for everyone
- Climate change: what have we done?
- Air pollution: lung disease
- Conclusion: is there hope?
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-11909-9
- 9786613119094
- 0-262-29552-0
- OCLC:
- 727948406
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