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railroads and westward expansion, 38–39; urban
sanitation, 38
Environmental Crisis, 127, 139
Environmental Defense Fund, 116, 137, 141
environmental degradation, 115, 154
environmental group think, 219
environmental health hazards, 117–18, 151
environmentalism, 206, 307; concept of, 115; death
of, 217–21
environmental issues, 152–53; approach, 206;
prioritization of, 212–13
environmentalists, 151
environmental justice, 83, 307
environmental law, 247
environmental movement, 159; foundations for,
88; new solutions, search for, 116–17; overview,
114–16
environmental policy, 157; in White
House, 229
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), 115, 135,
150, 156, 178, 187, 234–36, 276–79
environmental regulation: labor laws and, 150; need
for, 134–35
environment impact statement, 131
EPA. See Environmental Protection Agency
ESA. See Endangered Species Act
Espanola island, 6
Essay on the Principle of Population, 55
estuary, 307
ethanol, 307
ethics: conservation, need for, 166–67; extension of,
103; land, 103, 122
Europe: actual population of, 31; in late eighteenth
and early nineteenth, 39; political economists
of, 23
European: economic growth and intellectual
blossoming, 2; economists, 21; explorers and
colonists, 2–3; industrial growth, 3;
naturalists, 20
eutrophication process, 307
Everett, Edward, 30, 31
Everglades, Florida, 46, 88, 100, 221
Everglades National Park, 100
Everglades Project Reports, 100
e-waste: definition, 214–15; environmental impact
of, 214; in landfills/incinerators, 215; regulating,
215–16; in United States, 215
extensive territorial growth, 22
externality costs, 246
“extinction,” 267–69
extractivism, 307
ExxonMobil, 272
F
faith-based commitment, 223
Fall, Albert, 86
family housekeeping, 74
farmland, protection of, 153
farms: fish, 197; forest industries and, 66; policy, 222;
prosperous, 121
FCAA. See Federal Clean Air Act
FCS. See Forest Stewardship Council
federal agencies, 143
Federal Clean Air Act (FCAA), 188
federal conservation effort, 68–69
federal farm policy, 222
Federal financial assistance, 108, 140, 146
Federal Forest Conservation, 59
Federal Government, 41, 75, 132
Federal Inaction, 204
federalist, 25
federal land-use planning, 221–23
federal level, 22
federal oversight, 68
federal policy, 41
Federal Power Act, 124
Federal Power Commission (FPC), 124
Federal Water Pollution Control Act, 140, 155
Federal Wilderness Act (1964), 60–61
Fedrizzi, S. Richard, 239–40
feeding method, 131
feirce stormes, 9
fertility rates, 270
Fifth Amendment, 90, 223, 224
firewood timber, 65
First Federal Forest Reserve (1817), 32
fish and fisheries, senseless destruction of, 36
fish farms, 197
fishing, 197
floods/flooding: of Hetch Hetchy Valley, 77–79; of
migrants, 121; prevention of, 93
Florida: for English Crown, 20; wet-lands, 20
FOIA. See Freedom of Information Act
Food, Drug, and Cosmetics Act, 87, 95
foods, 158; adulteration of processed, 73; chain, 307;
and drugs, 87, 95; and fiber, 126; industry, 73, 95;
and medicines, 95; on pesticides, 87; production,
128; risks posed by, 210; web, 307
Ford, Gerald, 122
foreign factories, 150
foreign immigrants, 151
foreign nation, 24
foreseeable future, 110