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Dirty water : one man's fight to clean up one of the world's most polluted bays / Bill Sharpsteen.
LIBRA TD763 .S557 2010
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sharpsteen, Bill, 1954-
- Series:
- Stephen Bechtel Fund imprint in ecology and the environment
- The Stephen Bechtel Fund imprint in ecology and the environment
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hyperion Water Treatment Facility (Los Angeles, Calif.).
- Sewage disposal in the ocean--Environmental aspects--California--Santa Monica Bay.
- Sewage disposal in the ocean.
- Bennett, Howard, 1929-.
- Bennett, Howard.
- Hyperion Water Treatment Facility (Los Angeles, Calif.)--History.
- Marine pollution--California--Santa Monica Bay--Prevention.
- Marine pollution.
- High school teachers.
- History.
- Sewage disposal in the ocean--Environmental aspects.
- Santa Monica Bay Region (Calif.)--Environmental conditions.
- Santa Monica Bay Region (Calif.).
- Environmental policy--California--Santa Monica Bay Region.
- Environmental policy.
- California--Santa Monica Bay Region.
- Environmentalists--United States--Biography.
- Environmentalists.
- United States.
- California.
- Political activists--United States--Biography.
- Political activists.
- High school teachers--United States--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 263 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [2010]
- Contents:
- The swimmer
- The witness
- The coalition
- Squirp
- The press conference
- City hall
- The activist
- The second hearing
- The scientist
- The politician
- The brown ribbon
- Heal the bay
- The dirty toilet awards
- The decision
- Friend of the court
- Outsiders and insiders
- The 50 percent job.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780520256606
- 0520256603
- OCLC:
- 310096800
- Publisher Number:
- 99935958584
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