Genetically Engineered Crops: A Study of Major Environmental Implications and U.S. Policy

The adoption of genetically modified crops is becoming evermore common in United States agriculture. However, this relatively new technology carries a negative stigma and perceived risks that have resulted commonly in public disapproval. In the United States, bioengineered crops are highly regulated. The significance of environmental benefits such as decreased chemical impact, increased soil conservation, heightened carbon sequestration, decreased energy demands, and reduced air emissions, are important enough to warrant a revision to U.S. policy. The U.S. policy structure needs to be simplified and made more efficient to better facilitate the speed with which new GE products can, and should, be developed while still providing adequate mitigation of potential environmental risks such as species invasiveness and impacts on non-target species.

Destruction of villages at San Marcial /

Mode of access: Internet.

Lake Flower boat launch facility, Greater Adirondack RC&D area, Essex County, RC&D measure plan B1; Finding of no significant impact (FONSI) : environmental impact statement.

Mode of access: Internet.

Shoreline plant establishment and use of a wave-stilling device /

"January 1978."

Evaluation of selective erosion control techniques : Piedmont region of S.E. United States /

Mode of access: Internet.

Fall water supply summary.

Mode of access: Internet.

Water supply outlook for Arizona and federal-state-private cooperative snow surveys.

Mode of access: Internet.

Alternative policies for controlling nonpoint agricultural sources of water pollution /

"EPA-600/5-78-005."

YES, Youth Environmental Service : technical assistance package.

"June 1996."

Contour planting and irrigating on moderate-to-steep slopes /

Mode of access: Internet.

Cellular-block-lined grade control structure : hydraulic model investigation /

"August 1973."

Handbook of native woody plants of the United States,

Preliminary edition; reissued in 1938 with title: Native woody plants of the United States.

Planting guidelines for marsh development and bank stabilization /

Issued August 1977.

Planting guidelines for dune creation and stabilization /

"September 1977."

Federal-state-private cooperative snow surveys, 1953-1957; summary of snow survey measurements for Idaho [portions of British Columbia, Montana, Wyoming, and Nevada within the Columbia Basin]

Mode of access: Internet.