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      National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology,Committee to Review the Styrene Assessment in the National Toxicology Program 12th Report on Carcinogens

      Many people in the United States are exposed to styrene. Sources of environmental exposure included food (from migration of styrene from polymer packaging materials), cigarette smoke, vehicle exhaust and other…

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      Review of the Formaldehyde Assessment in the National Toxicology Program 12th Report on Carcinogens

      National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology,Committee to Review the Formaldehyde Assessment in the National Toxicology Program 12th Report on Carcinogens

      Review of: Report on carcinogens. 12th ed. 2011.

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      The United States Antarctic Research Report to the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)

      Polar Research Board,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

      Many nations conduct research and engage in other scientific activities on Antarctica. Each year the US National Committee for the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research compiles a book that includes…

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      Review of EPA’s Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program: Overall Evaluation

      Committee to Review the EPA's Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Programs,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

      Reviewing EPA’s Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (EMAP), this volume retains its belief that EMAP’s goals are laudable. Achieving the goals of this ambitious program requires that EMAP successfully meet…

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      Progress Toward Restoring the Everglades: The Fourth Biennial Review, 2012

      Committee on Independent Scientific Review of Everglades Restoration Progress,Water Science and Technology Board,Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology,Division on Earth and Life Studies,National Research Council

      Twelve years into the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Project, little progress has been made in restoring the core of the remaining Everglades ecosystem; instead, most project construction so far has occurred…

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      Progress Toward Restoring the Everglades: The Fifth Biennial Review: 2014

      National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology,Water Science and Technology Board,Committee on Independent Scientific Review of Everglades Restoration Progress

      The Everglades ecosystem is vast, stretching more than 200 miles from Orlando to Florida Bay, and Everglades National Park is but a part located at the southern end. During the…

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      Toxicity Pathway-Based Risk Assessment: Preparing for Paradigm Change: A Symposium Summary

      Standing Committee on Risk Analysis Issues and Reviews,National Research Council

      In 2007, the National Research Council envisioned a new paradigm in which biologically important perturbations in key toxicity pathways would be evaluated with new methods in molecular biology, bioinformatics, computational…

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      Scientific Evaluation of Biolo

      Committee On Endangered And Th

      During 2001, a severe drought occurred in the Klamath River Basin. The U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) determined that the newly issued biological opinions and their RPAs must prevail…

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      Application of Modern Toxicology Approaches for Predicting Acute Toxicity for Chemical Defense

      National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Life Sciences,Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology,Committee on Toxicology

      The US Department of Defense (DOD) is faced with an overwhelming task in evaluating chemicals that could potentially pose a threat to its deployed personnel. There are over 84,000 registered…

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      Environmental Cleanup at Navy Facilities: Adaptive Site Management

      National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Water Science and Technology Board,Committee on Environmental Remediation at Naval Facilities,National Academy of Sciences

      Applies the concepts of adaptive management to complex, high-risk hazardous waste sites that are typical of the military, EPA, and other responsible parties. This work suggests ways to make progress…

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      Riparian Areas: Functions and Strategies for Management

      Committee on Riparian Zone Functioning and Strategies for Management,Water Science and Technology Board,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

      The Clean Water Act (CWA) requires that wetlands be protected from degradation because of their important ecological functions including maintenance of high water quality and provision of fish and wildlife…

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      Emergency and Continuous Exposure Guidance Levels for Selected Submarine Contaminants

      Committee on Emergency and Continuous Exposure Guidance Levels for Selected Submarine Contaminants,Committee on Toxicology,National Research Council

      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…

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      Emergency and Continuous Exposure Guidance Levels for Selected Submarine Contaminants

      Subcommittee on Emergency and Continuous Exposure Guidance Levels for Selected Submarine Contaminants,Committee on Toxicology,National Research Council

      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…

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      Emergency and Continuous Exposure Guidance Levels for Selected Submarine Contaminants

      Committee on Emergency and Continuous Exposure Guidance Levels for Selected Submarine Contaminants,Committee on Toxicology,National Research Council

      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…

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      Uranium Mining in Virginia: Scientific, Technical, Environmental, Human Health and Safety, and Regulatory Aspects of Uranium Mining and Processing in Virginia

      Committee on Uranium Mining in Virginia,Committee on Earth Resources,National Research Council

      Uranium mining in the Commonwealth of Virginia has been prohibited since 1982 by a state moratorium, although approval for restricted uranium exploration in the state was granted in 2007. Uranium…

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      Arsenic in Drinking Water: 2001 Update

      Subcommittee to Update the 1999 Arsenic in Drinking Water Report,Committee on Toxicology,Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology,Division on Earth and Life Studies,National Research Council

      Evaluates epidemiological studies and experimental data that provides information on how and at what level arsenic in drinking water can lead to cancer. This report concludes that men and women…

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      Science and Stewardship in the Antarctic

      Committee on Antarctic Policy and Science,Polar Research Board,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

      With the negotiation of the International Protocol on Environmental Protection in 1991, those nations conducting scientific research in Antarctica face various challenges. This book examines how the implementation of the…

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      Reducing Disaster Losses Through Better Information

      Board on Natural Disasters,Commission on Geosciences, Environment and Resources,Division on Earth and Life Studies,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

      Losses of life and property from natural disasters in the United States-and throughout the world-have been enormous and the potential for substantially greater future losses looms. It is clearly in…

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      Acute Exposure Guideline Levels for Selected Airborne Chemicals: Volume 20

      National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology,Committee on Toxicology,Committee on Acute Exposure Guideline Levels

      Extremely hazardous substances can be released accidentally as a result of chemical spills, industrial explosions, fires, or accidents involving railroad cars and trucks transporting EHSs. Workers and residents in communities…

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      Understanding Multiple Environmental Stresses: Report of a Workshop

      Committee on Earth-Atmosphere Interactions: Understanding and Responding to Multiple Environmental Stresses,National Research Council

      The research of the last decade has demonstrated that ecosystems and human systems are influenced by multiple factors, including climate, land use, and the by-products of resource use. Understanding the…

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      Science and the Greater Everglades Ecosystem Restoration: An Assessment of the Critical Ecosystem Studies Initiative

      National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology,Water Science and Technology Board,Panel to Review the Critical Ecosystem Studies Initiative

      The report reviews a U.S. Department of the Interior research program, finding that it provides key information to support the restoration of the Florida Everglades and to better assess the…

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      Preliminary Principles and Guidelines for Archiving Environmental and Geospatial Data at NOAA: Interim Report

      National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate,Committee on Archiving and Accessing Environmental and Geospatial Data at NOAA

      The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) collects and manages a wide range of environmental and geospatial data to fulfill its mission requirements. This book offers preliminary principles and guidelines…

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      Future Directions for the National Science Foundation’s Arctic Natural Sciences Program

      National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Commission on Geosciences, Environment and Resources,Polar Research Board,National Academy of Sciences

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      Toxicity Testing in the 21st Century: A Vision and a Strategy

      Committee on Toxicity Testing and Assessment of Environmental Agents,National Research Council

      The US Environmental Protection Agency asked the Council to review the methods and strategies currently being used to evaluate the hazards of risks associated with exposure to drugs, food additives…

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      Cumulative Environmental Effects of Oil and Gas Activities on Alaska’s North Slope

      National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Polar Research Board,Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology,Committee on Cumulative Environmental Effects of Oil and Gas Activities on Alaska's North Slope

      Identifies accumulated environmental, social and economic effects of oil and gas leasing, exploration, and production on Alaska’s North Slope. This book makes recommendations for further environmental research related to environmental…

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      Application of Toxicogenomics to Cross-Species Extrapolation: A Report of a Workshop

      National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Life Sciences,Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology,Committee on Emerging Issues and Data on Environmental Contaminants

      Some of what we know about the health effects of exposure to chemicals from food, drugs, and the environment come from studies of occupational, inadvertent, or accident-related exposures. When there…

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      Combined Exposures to Hydrogen Cyanide and Carbon Monoxide in Army Operations: Initial Report

      Committee on Combined Exposures to Hydrogen Cyanide and Carbon Monoxide in Army Operations,Committee on Toxicology,National Research Council

      In response to a request from the U.S. Army, a committee convened by the National Research Council (NRC) conducted the first in a sequence of studies evaluating the combined health…

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      The Measure of STAR: Review of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Science To Achieve Results (STAR) Research Grants Program

      Committee to Review EPA's Research Grants Program,Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology,Division on Earth and Life Studies,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

      The Science To Achieve Results (STAR) program is a competitive, peer-reviewed, extramural research grants program created to encourage interagency collaboration and to increase the Environmental Protection Agency’s access to the…

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      Review of the Department of Defense Research Program on Low-Level Exposures to Chemical Warfare Agents

      National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology,Committee on Toxicology,Subcommittee on Toxicologic Assessment of Low-Level Exposures to Chemical Warfare Agents

      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…

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      Review of EPA’s 2022 Draft Formaldehyde Assessment

      National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, Committee on Review of EPA's 2022 Draft Formaldehyde Assessment

      Formaldehyde is widely present in the environment and is one of the highest production chemicals by volume, used in manufactured goods including wood products, permanent press fabrics, and household products…

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      Review of the Department of Defense Enhanced Particulate Matter Surveillance Program Report

      Committee for Review of the DOD's Enhanced Particulate Matter Surveillance Program Report,National Research Council

      Title on accompanying CD-ROM: Appendix D–Final report: Department of Defense Enhanced Particulate Matter Surveillance Program (EPMSP).

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      Estimating Mortality Risk Reduction and Economic Benefits from Controlling Ozone Air Pollution

      Committee on Estimating Mortality Risk Reduction Benefits from Decreasing Tropospheric Ozone Exposure,National Research Council

      The Environmental Protection Agency asked the National Research Council to establish a committee of experts to evaluate independently the contributions of epidemiologic studies to understanding the size of the ozone-mortality…

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      Validation of Toxicogenomic Technologies: A Workshop Summary

      Committee on Validation of Toxicogenomic Technologies: A Focus on Chemical Classification Strategies,Committee on Emerging Issues and Data on Environmental Contaminants,National Research Council

      Beginning in the early 1980s, new technologies, began to permit evaluation of the expression of individual genes. Recent technological advances have expanded those evaluations to permit the simultaneous detection of…

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      Progress Toward Restoring the Everglades: The First Biennial Review, 2006

      Committee on Independent Scientific Review of Everglades Restoration Progress (CISRERP),National Research Council

      The Restoration plan, which was launched in 1999 by the US Army Corps of Engineers and the South Florida Water Management District, includes more than 40 major projects that are…

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      Material Fluxes on the Surface of the Earth

      Panel on Global Surficial Geofluxes,Board on Earth Sciences & Resources,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

      Written by leading experts in the field, this book offers a historical perspective on geofluxes. It discusses the cycles of materials on the earth’s surface, from weathering processes to the…

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      Review of the WATERS Network Science Plan

      Committee on the Review of Water and Environmental Research Systems (WATERS) Network,National Research Council

      One of the most critical issues facing the United States today is the proper management of our water resources. Water availability and quality are changing due to increasing population, urbanization…

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      Interim Review of the Subsonic Assessment Project: Management, Science, and Goals

      Board on Atmospheric Sciences & Climate,Commission on Geosciences, Environment and Resources,Division on Earth and Life Studies,National Research Council

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      Building a Foundation for Sound Environmental Decisions

      Committee on Research Opportunities and Priorities for EPA,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

      Describes a framework for acquiring the knowledge needed both to solve recognized problems and to be prepared for the kinds of problems likely to emerge. Many case examples are included…

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      Using 21st Century Science to Improve Risk-Related Evaluations

      National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology,Committee on Incorporating 21st Century Science into Risk-Based Evaluations

      Over the last decade, several large-scale United States and international programs have been initiated to incorporate advances in molecular and cellular biology, -omics technologies, analytical methods, bioinformatics, and computational tools…

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      Modeling the Health Risks of Climate Change: Workshop Summary

      National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Life Sciences,Standing Committee on Emerging Science for Environmental Health Decisions

      Climate change poses risks to human health and well-being through shifting weather patterns, increases in frequency and intensity of heat waves and other extreme weather events, rising sea levels, ocean…

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      The Geological Record of Ecological Dynamics: Understanding the Biotic Effects of Future Environmental Change

      Committee on the Geologic Record of Biosphere Dynamics,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

      Because of the advances in the scientists’ ability to analyze environmental information from geological data, the National Science Foundation and the US Geological Survey asked a National Research Council committee…

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      River Resource Management in the Grand Canyon

      Committee to Review the Glen Canyon Environmental Studies,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

      Analyzes environmental research conducted in the lower Colorado River below the Glen Canyon Dam by the Bureau of Reclamation. This book reviews alternative dam operations to mitigate impacts in the…

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      Managing Carbon Monoxide Pollution in Meteorological and Topographical Problem Areas

      National Research Council,Transportation Research Board,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate,Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology

      The regulation of carbon monoxide has been one of the great success stories in air pollution control. While more than 90 percent of the locations with carbon monoxide monitors were…

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      NOAA’s Arctic Research Initiative: Proceedings of a Workshop

      Polar Research Board,Commission on Geosciences, Environment and Resources,Division on Earth and Life Studies,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

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      Cumulative Environmental Effects of Oil and Gas Activities on Alaska’s North Slope

      Identifies accumulated environmental, social and economic effects of oil and gas leasing, exploration, and production on Alaska’s North Slope. This book also makes recommendations for further environmental research related to…

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      Advancing Research on Understanding Environmental Effects of UV Filters from Sunscreens

      National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine Division, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, Ocean Studies Board

      Sunscreens and a variety of other products contain chemical ultraviolet (UV) filters that absorb or block the sun's radiation and thereby help mitigate harms to human skin from the sun…

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      Toxicity Testing: Strategies to Determine Needs and Priorities

      Steering Committee on Identification of Toxic and Potentially Toxic Chemicals for Consideration by the National Toxicology Program,National Research Council

      Reveals that many chemicals used in pesticides, cosmetics, drugs, food, and commerce have not been sufficiently tested to allow a complete determination of their potential hazards. Given the chemical substances…

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      Technologies for Environmental Management: The Department of Energy’s Office of Science and Technology

      National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Commission on Geosciences, Environment and Resources,Board on Radioactive Waste Management,National Academy of Sciences

      The Department of Energy’s Environmental Management Program (DOEEM) is one of the largest environmental clean up efforts in world history. The EM division charged with developing or finding technologies to…

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