DDT wars : rescuing our national bird, preventing cancer, and creating Environmental Defense Fund / Charles F. Wurster.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wurster, Charles F., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental Defense Fund (2007- ).

DDT (Insecticide)--Toxicology.

DDT (Insecticide).

DDT (Insecticide)--Physiological effect.

DDT (Insecticide)--Environmental aspects.

Health promotion.

Environmental health.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2020.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This is a firsthand account of the Environmental Defense Fund's battle to ban DDT from use as a pesticide, written by a founding member of the EDF. It describes the various legal and scientific maneuvers required to have the Environmental Protection Agency officially ban DDT.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Foreword""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1. A New England Town Sprays Its Elm Trees with DDT""; ""How Did I Get into This?""; ""DDT Kills Birds but Doesn�t Save the Trees""; ""2. Sue the Bastards on Long Island: The Power of an Idea""; ""DDT Goes to Trial on Long Island""; ""Rigging the Audubon Convention; A Wall Street Lawyer Was Unimpressed""; ""The Environmental Defense Fund Is Born""; ""3. Proceed with Caution, then Sue the Bastards in Michigan""; ""The Suit Partly Unravels; Another Win While Losing""; ""The Cities Cave In, Forget to Kick Us Out""

""Evolving a Master Plan""""4. On to Wisconsin, the Dairy State""; ""DDT Goes to Trial in Madison, Wisconsin""; ""Birds Die, Nests Fail""; ""DDT, Thin Eggshells, and Reduced Reproduction in Birds""; ""DDT Reduces Reproduction in Trout and Salmon""; ""Wayland Hayes: “DDT Is Absolutely Safe�""; ""A Toxicologist Arrives from Sweden""; ""The Task Force for DDT Questions the Analyses; Confusion with PCBs""; ""Integrated Pest Management Without any DDT""; ""Summation: DDT Is a Pollutant in the Wisconsin Ecosystem""; ""To Make an Omelet, You will Break Some Eggs""

""Mid-1969: Where Did We Stand, What Had We Accomplished?""""Final Verdict from the DDT Hearings in Wisconsin""; ""5. EDF, Barely an Organization, Getting Its Act Together""; ""Environmental Defense Fund, or Fundless Environmental Defenders?""; ""6. EDF Diversifies into New Environmental Arenas""; ""Early Battles""; ""The Environmental Decade: The 1970s""; ""Environmental Defense Fund: Biggest Bang for the Buck""; ""The Judicial Approach Is Contagious""; ""7. Time to Go After the Feds""; ""What!? DDT Also Causes Cancer?""; ""What!? DDT Also Causes Mutations and Birth Defects?""

""Both Federal Agencies React to the Petitions. Barely!""""The Environmental Defense Fund Takes Two Federal Agencies to Court""; ""The Appeals Court Makes an Historic Decision""; ""The Bruising Battle of the Briefs""; ""8. Escalating the DDT Issue with More Court Cases""; ""Flushing Tons of DDT into the Los Angeles Sewer System""; ""What Happened to Montrose and Its Pollution Legacy After 1972?""; ""Bald Eagles Gone, Golden Eagles Move in""; ""9. Changes in Washington Affect the DDT Battle""; ""EDF Begins to Expand: New People, New Washington Office""

""10. DDT Goes to Trial, Finally, in Washington, DC""""DDT: Global Contamination Problem""; ""Predatory Birds Pay the Price""; ""Mechanism for DDE-Induced Thin-Shelled Eggs""; ""Dangers of DDT to Fish and People Who Eat Them""; ""Superior Insect Control Without DDT""; ""Does DDT Cause Cancer? In Mice? Rats? Humans?""; ""DDT Industry Shortage of Qualified Witnesses""; ""11. Ruckelshaus Decides""; ""The Ruckelshaus Decision: DDT Gets Canceled! Almost!""; ""Both Sides Appeal the Ruling to the Court of Appeals""; ""Passing the Test of Time""; ""They Are After Us Again�40 Years Later. Why?""

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2015.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record

Other Format:

Print version

ISBN:

9780197559512

0197559514

OCLC:

1222774784

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