The polluters : the making of our chemically altered environment / Benjamin Ross, Steven Amter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ross, Benjamin.

Contributor:

Amter, Steven.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chemical industry--Environmental aspects--United States.

Chemical industry.

Pollution--Environmental aspects--United States.

Pollution.

Pollutants.

Physical Description:

viii, 223 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.

Summary:

The Polluters brings to light a previously untold story of personal struggle, scientific conflict,and political intrigue over the environment. Research was slanted, unwelcome discoverieswere suppressed, and political strings were pulled as the expanding chemical industry setloose a flood of environmental damage that still engulfs us.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

CHAPTER 1 The Sorcerer's Apprentices

PART I: Summoning the Spirits

CHAPTER 2 Pollution Goes to Washington

CHAPTER 3 The Rise of the Chemical Industry

CHAPTER 4 Royd Sayers' Service Bureau

PART II: Fetching a Flood

CHAPTER 5 The Miracle Bug-Killer

CHAPTER 6 Wilhelm Hueper and Environmental Cancer

CHAPTER 7 Bad Air in Los Angeles

CHAPTER 8 Donora's Strangler Smog

CHAPTER 9 A New Deal for Clean Water

CHAPTER 10 Deregulating California's Water

CHAPTER 11 The Stealth Pollutants

PART III: Holding Back the Deluge

CHAPTER 12 DuPont Tries to Clean Up

CHAPTER 13 The Industry Responds

CHAPTER 14 From Donora to Love Canal

CHAPTER 15 Epilogue: Convenient Hopes and Inconvenient Truths

Key to Archival Citations

List of Abbreviations

Notes

Index

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Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-19-975320-2

0-19-975297-4

1-282-70281-5

9786612702815

OCLC:

651602024