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The generation of electricity by wind energy has the potential to reduce environmental impacts caused by the use of fossil fuels. This work includes a case study of the mid-Atlantic highlands, a mountainous area that spans parts of West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania.

Trichloroethylene is a chlorinated solvent widely used as a degreasing agent in industrial and manufacturing settings. This title identifies and assesses the key scientific issues relevant to analyzing the human health risks of trichloroethylene, considering pertinent toxicologic, epidemiologic, population susceptibility, and other information.

The Clean Air Act established a pair of programs - known as New Source Review (NSR) - that regulate large stationary sources of air pollution, such as factories and electricity-generating facilities. This book provides insights into potential effects of the rule changes on national emissions from electric power industry.

Biomonitoring - a method for measuring amounts of toxic chemicals in human tissues is a tool for studying harmful environmental chemicals. This book provides a framework for improving the use of biomonitoring data including developing and using biomarkers (measures of exposure), research to improve the interpretation of data, and more.

Most people associate fluoride with the practice of adding fluoride to public drinking water supplies for the prevention of tooth decay. However, fluoride can also enter public water systems from natural sources. This book reviews research on various health effects from exposure to fluoride, including studies conducted over the past several years.

Reviews the Department of Defenses (DOD) Research Plan for obtaining toxicologic and other data to assess risk to military personnel. This book provides guidance to DOD on risk assessment methods for assessing toxicologic risk to military personnel from low-level exposures to CWA's.

Evaluates the potential health effects of perchlorate. This report finds that the body can compensate for iodide deficiency, and that iodide uptake would likely have to be reduced by at least 75 percent for months or longer for adverse health effects, such as hypothryroidism, to occur.

Communicating Toxicogenomics Information to Nonexperts

"This project was supported by Contract No. IHP-03-093 between the National Academy of Sciences and the Alaska Department of Fish and Game"--T.p. verso.

The Platte River provides important habitat for migratory and breeding birds, including three endangered or threatened species: the whooping crane, the northern Great Plains population of the piping plover, and the interior least tern. This book addresses the habitat requirements for these federally protected species.

US Navy personnel in submarines are in an enclosed and isolated environment for days or weeks at a time when at sea. This work presents a review of the National Research Council. It finds there is little data available and feels monitoring would provide a complete analysis of submarine air and data on exposure of personnel to contaminants.

Examines the aircraft environmental control systems, the sources of chemical and biological contaminants in aircraft cabins, and the toxicity and health effects associated with these contaminants. This book provides some recommendations for potential approaches for improving cabin air quality and a surveillance and research program.

Focuses on the science underlying the Endangered Species Act ESA and offers recommendations for making the act more effective. This book provides an overview of what scientists know about extinction - and what this understanding means to implementation of the ESA.