Environment and Environmental Studies
National Academies research on the environment encompasses activities where policy meets the realm of science and the environment, including such issues as drilling for oil on Alaska's North Slope, the transportation of nuclear waste, and protecting the nation's food supply.
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Acute Exposure Guideline Levels for Selected Airborne Chemicals: Volume 8 (2010)
This book is the eighth volume in the series Acute Exposure Guideline Levels for Selected Airborne Chemicals, and reviews AEGLs for acrolein, carbon monoxide, 1,2-dichloroethene, ethylenimine, fluorine, hydrazine, peracetic acid,... More |
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Science and Technology for DOE Site Cleanup: Workshop Summary (2010)
The Department of Energy's Office of Environmental Management is developing a technology roadmap to guide planning and possible future congressional appropriations for its technology development programs. It asked the National Research Council of... More |
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A Transportation Research Program for Mitigating and Adapting to Climate Change and Conserving Energy (2009)
In reviewing proposals for transportation research programs as part of reauthorizing the federal surface transportation program, the Transportation Research Board recognized a gap: no proposals explicitly addressed research to mitigate GHG... More |
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Acute Exposure Guideline Levels for Selected Airborne Chemicals, Volume 7 (2009)
This book is the seventh volume in the series Acute Exposure Guideline Levels for Selected Airborne Chemicals, and includes AEGLs for acetone cyanohydrin, carbon disulfide, monochloroacetic acid, and phenol. ... More |
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Advice on the Department of Energy's Cleanup Technology Roadmap: Gaps and Bridges (2009)
Beginning with the Manhattan Project and continuing through the Cold War, the United States government constructed and operated a massive industrial complex to produce and test nuclear weapons and related technologies. When the Cold War... More |
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America's Energy Future: Technology and Transformation (2009)
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Assessing Economic Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Mitigation: (2009)
Many economic models exist to estimate the cost and effectiveness of different policies for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Some approaches incorporate rich technological detail, others emphasize the aggregate behavior of the economy and... More |
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Assessment of Explosive Destruction Technologies for Specific Munitions at the Blue Grass and Pueblo Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plants (2009)
The Army's ability to meet public and congressional demands to destroy expeditiously all of the U.S. declared chemical weapons would be enhanced by the selection and acquisition of appropriate explosive destruction technologies (EDTs) to augment... More |
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Cleaning Up Sites Contaminated with Radioactive Materials: International Workshop Proceedings (2009)
This publication features papers presented at the Workshop on Cleaning Up Sites Contaminated with Radioactive Materials, held in Moscow in June 2007. This activity was organized by the National Academies in cooperation with the Russian Academy of... More |
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Contaminated Water Supplies at Camp Lejeune: Assessing Potential Health Effects (2009)
In the early 1980s, two water-supply systems on the Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune in North Carolina were found to be contaminated with the industrial solvents trichloroethylene (TCE) and perchloroethylene (PCE). The water systems were supplied by... More |
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