air pollution

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air pollution

Clean air

2012

Are humans damaging the atmosphere?

2015
Discusses the way in which fossil fuels, plastic waste, and global food production are impacting the environment.

What makes the air dirty?

2013
Introduces children to air pollution.

Earth under siege

from air pollution to global change
2002
Presents an introduction to the atmosphere and the basic scientific principles used in studying environmental pollution, looks at local, regional, and global environmental problems such as acid rain, smog, climate change, and ozone depletion, and includes reading lists, review questions, and resources.

For the birds!

a book about air
1993
Discusses air pollution and suggests things that can be done to help clean the air.

Tower to the sun

1997
Despairing because the air has become so filthy that it blocks the sun's rays, the richest man in the world decides to use his money to build a tower so that his grandson can experience the sun as it once was.

Polluting the air

1992
Examines the causes and effects of air pollution and explores methods to combat this threat.

Regulation and the courts

the case of the Clean Air Act
1983
Examines judicial decisions that have influenced federal air pollution control policy, containing six case studies and discussing problems which haven arisen due to setting of goals without plans for action.

Clean air

1992
Discusses the devastating effects of population growth and industry on air quality; the different types of pollutants that can be found in the atmosphere; the health and economical effects of pollution; and ways to clean up the air.

Clean air

2006
Examines the problem of air pollution, and looks at what is being done around the world to clean up the air, discussing legislation, monitoring, the reduction of greenhouse gases, the development of clean-running cars, chemical crackdowns, and other topics.

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