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Discusses the six major applications of market-based instruments in the United States. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) emission trading program; The comparable trading program associated with the phasedown of lead in gasoline; Water quality permit programs; The chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) trading permit program; The sulfur dioxide allowance system for acid rain control; RECLAIM program for improving air quality in Los Angeles, California.

Deals with the failure of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to comply with regulatory laws related to arsenic emissions in the 1980s. Order of a federal District Court in Manhattan that EPA should propose emission standards for arsenic under the Clean Air Act by July 11, 1983; Significance of the need for standard limitation on arsenic emissions in June 1981; Advantages and disadvantages of the statutory scheme for arsenic.

This article discusses how the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) uses input from the public on defaults, extrapolation assumptions, and uncertainty factors in risk assessment. According to the author risk assessment as practiced by the (EPA), defaults are necessary and useful, but their use must follow science policy and must be explicitly described. It was suggested that the USEPA must not intermingle policy judgments within the scientific assessment of risk. Risk assessments should acknowledge the presence of considerable uncertainty. Risk assessments should not rely on conservative ("worst case") assumptions that distort outcomes and yield estimates that grossly overstate risk.

This article is a collection and description of web sites that provide information on sustainable product design. The author highlights the American Center for Life Cycle Assessment and the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. Readers are also referred to web sites that provide a broad view of the sustainable design concept, like the Design for Environment program, run by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Also featured are sites run by the Australian Department of Environment and Heritage and the Minnesota Office of Environmental Affairs. Academic sites include the Center for Sustainable Design, Deft University of Technology's Design for Sustainability program, and the Consortium on Green Design and Manufacturing at University of California, Berkeley.

Provides Internet resources on the topic of environmental justice. Definition of environmental justice according to the Web site of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; Consideration of Web sites for several governmental and nongovernmental organizations that advocate for environmental justice at national and local levels.

Reports that the Environmental Protection Agency is helping cities clean up brownfields in the hopes of enticing companies back downtown. Brownfields as contaminated, abandoned commercial sites.

Announces that US Representative Sherwood Bochlert (R-N.Y) recently introduced a bill in Congress to raise the Environmental Protection Agency to cabinet-level status. Details of a similar bill introduced by Sen. John Glenn (D-Ohio).