Battleground : environment / Robert William Collin.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 553-556) and index.

v. 1. A-H -- volume 2. I-Z.

Acid rain --Air pollution -- Animals used for testing and research -- Artic Wildlife Refuge and oil drilling -- Automobile energy efficiencies -- Big box retail development -- Brownfields development -- Carbon Offsets -- Carbon Taxes -- Cancer-children -- Cancer from cell phones -- Cancer from electromagnetic radiation -- Childhood Asthma and the environment -- Citizen monitoring of environmental decisions -- Climate change -- Collaboration in environmental decision making -- Community-based environmental planning -- Community-based science -- Community right to know laws -- Conservation in the world -- Cultural vs. animal rights: The Makah Tribe and Whaling -- Cumulative emissions, impacts, and risks -- Different standards of enforcement of environmental law -- Ecological risk management decisions at Superfund sites -- Ecosystem risk assessment -- Ecotourism as a basis for protection of biodiversity -- Endangered species -- Geothermal Energy supply: Geothermal; Nuclear Energy supply; Solar Energy supply; Water Energy supply; Wind Energy supply -- Environment and War -- Environmental audits and environmental audit privileges -- Environmental justice -- Environmental impact statements: International; United States; Tribal -- Environmental mediation and alternative dispute resolution -- Environmental regulation and housing affordability -- Environmental vulnerability of urban areas -- Evacuation planning for natural disasters -- Farmworkers and environmental justice -- Federal environmental land use -- Genetically modified food -- Global warming -- Good neighbor agreements -- Hemp -- Hormone disruptors-endocrine disruptors -- Human health risk assessment Incineration and resource recovery -- Indigenous people and the environment -- Industrial agricultural practices and the environment -- Industrial feeding operations for animals -- Land use planning in the United States -- Lead exposure -- Litigation of environmental disputes -- Logging -- Low-level radioactive waste -- Mining of natural resources -- Mountain rescues -- Multicultural environmental education -- Nanotechnology -- National parks and concessions: Avalanches; Drought; Fire; Floods; Hurricanes; Ice; Landslides and mudslides; Tsunami preparation -- Organic farming -- Permitting industrial emissions-Air -- Permitting industrial emissions- Water -- Persistent organic pollutants -- Pesticides: Land Pollution; Ocean Pollution -- Pollution rights or emissions trading -- Poverty and environment in the United States -- Precautionary Principle -- Preservation: Predator management in Oregon -- Public Participation/Involvement in environmental decisions -- Rainforests -- Sacred Sites -- Ski resort development and expansion -- Sprawl -- State environmental land use -- Stock grazing and the environment -- Supplemental environmental projects -- Sustainability -- "Takings" of private property under the U.S. Constitution --TCE in water supplies -- Total maximum daily loads (TMDL) of chemicals in water -- Toxics release inventory -- Toxic waste and race -- Transportation and the environment -- True Cost Pricing in Environmental Economics -- Water pollution -- Watershed Protection and Soil Conservation -- Wild animal reintroduction.

Discusses in depth the current issues regarding the environment, including acid rain, climate change, organic farming, and urban sprawl.