Incineration, waste, 60, 64-65, 66f
Income and trash generation, 59, 60
Indicator species, 184, 186
Indonesia, 27, 98
Indoor Air Pollution: Federal Efforts Are Not Effectively Addressing a Growing Problem (GAO), 162
Indoor air toxins, 161-162
Indoor Pollution: Status of Federal Research Activities (GAO), 162
Indoor Radon Abatement Act, 154
Industrial waste, 53-58
Industrialization
garbage disposal, 60
rate of pollution, 1
recycling, 59
Information on EPA's Draft Reassessment of Dioxins (GAO), 163
Information on Human Exposure to Radiofrequency Fields from Cellular and PCS Radio Transmitters (FCC), 156-157
Injection wells, 57(f4.2)
Insects, forest destroying, 172-174
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), 25-26, 33-34
International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 119
International Energy Annual 2001 (U.S. Department of Energy), 31
International issues
acid rain, 139
air quality, 98-99
asbestos production, 152
black-market chlorofluorocarbons, 47-48
carbon dioxide emissions, 31, 33(f2.9)
climate change policy, 38
deep-sea fishing, 186-187
deforestation, 170
disagreements between developed and less developed countries, 10-11
energy production by source, 208f
free trade agreements, 11-12
geothermal energy, 202-203
global warming treaty, 38-39
gold mining, 187
hazardous waste disposal, 56
irrigation, 182
ivory trade, 186
Kyoto Protocol, 39-40, 42(f2.15)
mineral and oil resources, 188-189
motor vehicle ownership, 87
ocean water quality, 119
ozone depletion, 47-49
population growth, 3, 3f
Stockholm Conference, 9-10
sustainable development failures, 11
transborder pollution, 98-99
water supplies and suitability, 117-119
wind energy, 204-205
Invasive species, 173-175, 184
IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), 25-26, 33-34
Irradiation, food, 165, 167t
Irrigation, 108, 109f, 182
Ivory trade, 186
Ivy v. Diamond Shamrock, 146
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