Index - P

Pacific Northwest, 175, 186

Packaging, 63

Parks, National, 80, 180

Particulate matter, 81-84, 83f, 84(f5.14), 97

Passive solar systems, 205, 205f

Pathogens
     in food, 163-165, 166t
     forest destruction, 173-174
     waterborne, 111, 123t

PBT (persistent bioaccumulative toxic) chemicals, 142, 145t

PCB exposure, 7

Pennsylvania, 7

Peregrine falcons, 186

Perfluorocarbons (PFCs), 33

Persistent bioaccumulative toxic (PBT) chemicals, 142, 145t

Pesticides and herbicides, 142, 146, 163

Pesticides Industry Sales and Usage: 1998 and 1999 Market Estimates (Donalson et al.), 142

Petition Project, 35

Petroleum, 187-189, 188f, 190f

PFCs (perfluorocarbons), 33

pH measurement, 130(f7.2)

Philip Morris, 160

Philippines, 27

Phoenix, Arizona, 176

Photosynthesis, 169

Photovoltaic (PV) cell solar energy, 206, 207(f10.14)

Phytoplankton, 45

Pine beetles, 173

Planned obsolescence, 59

Plastics, 63

Plutonium, 70-71

Point water pollution sources, 115-116

Pollution-control industry, 4-5, 5f, 5t

Pollution profiles, 9

Population
     developing countries, 3, 3f
     water supply, 108

Potential hydrogen (pH) measurement, 130, 130(f7.2), 131f

Primary pollutants, 85, 86t

Priority pollutants, 75

Private water supplies, 121

Produce contamination, 165

"Produce Handling and Processing Practices" (Beuchet and Ryu), 165

Property rights, 5, 6, 179

Prosecution of environmental crime, 7-8

Protecting and Restoring America's Watersheds (EPA), 117

Public Health Service, U.S., 156

Public lands, 176

Public opinion
     acid rain, 139, 139t
     air pollution, 99, 99t, 100f
     Arctic National Wildlife Refuge drilling, 189, 190f
     environment vs. economy, 14-15, 20(f1.14), 21f
     environmental concern, twentieth- century, 1-3
     environmental quality, 12, 13f, 14f
     global warming, 40, 40t, 41t, 42f
     government agencies' performance, 13, 17f
     government's environmental role, 13, 16f
     ozone depletion, 51t
     personal involvement in environmental issues, 13-14, 18f, 19f, 20(f1.13)
     plant and animal extinction, 189, 190t
     reliability of polls, 15
     specific concerns, 12-13, 15f
     waste disposal, 74, 74t
     water issues, 127, 127t, 128t
     young Americans' rankings of U.S. problems, 15, 22f

Public Utilities Regulatory Policies Act (PURPA), 191

Public water supplies, 121, 121t

PURPA (Public Utilities Regulatory Policies Act), 191

Pyrolysis, 195