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Laid to waste : a Chester neighborhood fights for its future / producers, Robert Bahar, George McCollough.
Van Pelt - Video Collection (ask at Circulation Desk) DVD 029 133
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- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Environmental protection--Pennsylvania--Chester--Citizen participation.
- Environmental protection.
- Environmental health--Pennsylvania--Chester.
- Environmental health.
- Refuse disposal facilities--Pennsylvania--Chester.
- Refuse disposal facilities.
- Refuse disposal facilities--Environmental aspects--Pennsylvania--Chester.
- Incinerators--Pennsylvania--Chester.
- Incinerators.
- Incinerators--Environmental aspects--Pennsylvania--Chester.
- Air--Pollution--Pennsylvania--Chester.
- Air.
- Air--Pollution.
- Incinerators--Environmental aspects.
- Refuse disposal facilities--Environmental aspects.
- Political participation.
- Pennsylvania--Chester.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Feature films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (53 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, CA : Berkeley Media LLC, [between 2000 and 2009?]
- System Details:
- DVD-R, NTSC : may not play on some players.
- digital
- optical
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- Documents the civil protest and legal efforts that residents of Chester, Pennsylvania, directed toward controlling the air pollution emitted by waste treatment facilities within their community and to preventing the construction of new facilities.
- Credits:
- Music, David Pearson.
- Notes:
- Originally produced in 1996.
- Includes public performance rights for University of Pennsylvania only. Streaming not allowed without a separate license.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- OCLC:
- 56522158
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