America's environmental report card
Subtitle: are we making the grade?
By: Harvey Blatt
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 367
ISBN-13: 9780262515917; 9780262015110
Subjects: Environmental conditions; Pollution
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Water: no cholesterol, fat free, zero sugar; title: Infrastructure: pipes, wires, roads, bridges, railroads, dams, airports, and levees; title: Floods: when the levees break; title: Garbage: trash talk; title: Soil, crops, and food: dirt and nutrition; title: Fossil fuels: energy from the past; title: Alternative energy sources: energy for the future; title: The nuclear energy controversy: radiation for everyone; title: Climate change: what have we done?; title: Air pollution: lung disease; title: Conclusion: is there hope?