Table of Contents

PART I - THE ISSUES: Microbial Versatility; Chemical Contamination of the Environment: Sources, Types, and Fate of Synthetic Organic Chemicals; PART II - THE MICROBIOLOGY: Contamination of Soils by Hydrocarbons; Bacterial Co-metabolism of Halogenated Organic Compounds; Mechanisms of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Degradation; Organopollutant Degradation by Ligninolytic Fungi; PART III - APPLICATIONS IN CLEANUP AND BIOREMEDIATION: Microbial Treatment of Chemical Process Wastewater; Biological Treatment of Chlorinated Organics; In Situ Processes for Bioremediation of BTEX and Petroleum Fuel Products; PART IV - FUTURE TRENDS: Degradative Genes in the Environment; Risk Assessment for Toxic Chemicals in the Environment; Hazardous Chemicals and Biotechnology: Past Successes and Future Promise.