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 Undergr