Index 333
Brower, David, 112–13
brownfield, 305
Brown, Jerry, 231
Brown, Lester R., 151, 157–58, 212
Brundtland Report (1987), 157
Bryant, William Cullen, 40, 42, 44
BSER. See best system of emission reduction
“Buffalo Bill”, 64
buffaloe skin, 31–32
Bumppo, Natty, 33–34
Bush administration, 225, 229
Bush, George W., 180, 204, 218, 228, 241, 253
Business Roundtable Objects, 199–200
Byrd-Hagel Resolution, 199
C
cabbagetree, 20
CAFE. See corporate average fuel economy
California: air pollution, 188; Yo-Semite valley to, 52
California Air Resources Board (CARB), 187–88
California Integrated Waste Management Act of
1989, 230, 231
California Land Conservation Act, 125
Callenbach, Ernest, 146–47
canals, well-planned system of, 100
cancer-causing chemicals, 178
cancer, types of, 178
Canyon, Torrey, 134
“cap-and-trade”, 153; approach, 167; process,
180–84; system, 206, 306
Cape Cod, 9
capitalism vs. climate, 261–63
CARB. See California Air Resources Board
carbon-based fuels, 260
carbon dioxide (CO2) emission, 276–78
carbon emissions, 276
carbon-free electricity, 205, 244–47
carbon sink, 306
Cardoza, Dennis, 225
Carey Act (1894), 80
Carmans River, 137
Carson, Rachel, 92, 102, 115, 119–22, 137, 266; Silent
Spring, 121
Carter, Jimmy, 117
cathode ray tubes (CRTs), 214
Catlin, George, 23, 34–35, 40
CDC. See U.S. Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention
Celia Thaxter attacks, 63
Century Magazine, 64
CFCs. See Chlorofluorocarbons
channelization, 306
chemical environment, 247–49
chemical war, 120
Cheney administration, 229
China’s consumption rates, 237
chlorinated hydrocarbons, 120, 137
chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), 169, 306
Christian attitudes, 127
cigarette smoking, 178
cities, 10
Citizens’ Association, of New York, 52
civil disobedience, 257–58
Civilian Conservation Corps, 87
civilization, 23, 65, 122, 189
civil law, 14
civil reformation seldom, 11
civil rights movement, 114, 147
Civil War, 37, 84
claim-patent system, 57
Clark, William, 23, 31
Clean Air Act (CAA), 107–9, 156, 167, 234, 276
Clean Air Act Amendments, 135–36,
167, 180–84
“clean coal” concept of, 241–42
Clean Power Plan, 244, 276–78
Clean Water Act, 140–41, 156, 159, 210, 222, 224
clear-cutting, 306
Clements, Frederic, 96
Cleveland, Grover, 68
climate, 11; capitalism vs., 261–63
climate change, 203, 233, 306; agriculture and,
263–65; case for, 173–77
Climate Change Convention, 193
“The Climate Deception Dossiers”, 272
climatology, 306
Clinton, 258
Clinton administration, 200, 221
closed-loop system, 231
coal: burning of, 48; with carbon capture, 244; cheap
as, 246; clean, 241–42; industry, 241; iron and,
81; large-scale mining of, 38; miners working,
137; mining, 244; mining of anthracite, 89; and
oil-based societies, 158; petroleum, 65; plant, 245;
production, 109, 111; rapid depletion of, 82. See
also Pennsylvania Coal Company
coal-fired power plants, 244
Coastal Barrier Resources Act, 159–61
coastal State, 162
Coastal Zone Management Act, 159
Cohen, Bernard, 163–64, 178
Cole, Thomas, 42