Encyclopedia of Environmental Control Technology: Volume 6:
Subtitle: Pollution Reduction and Containment Control (Encyclopedia of Environmental Control Technology)
Publisher: Gulf Professional Publishing
Published: December 17, 1992
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 712
ISBN-13: 9780872012851
Subjects: Environmental science; Pollution & threats to the environment; Waste management; Waste Disposal And Treatment; Science; Science/Mathematics; Earth Sciences - General; Environmental Engineering & Technology; Science / Earth Sciences; Technology-Environmental Engineering & Technology; Factory and trade waste; Pollution
First sentence: While concern for the environment is not new, the protection of the environment as a broad national commitment was born only in the late 1960s with the passage of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969.