Don't breathe the air : air pollution and U.S. environmental politics, 1945-1970 / Scott Hamilton Dewey. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dewey, Scott Hamilton.

Series:

Environmental history series ; no. 16

Environmental history series Don't breathe the air

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Air--Pollution--United States--History.

Air.

Environmentalism--United States--History.

Environmentalism.

Environmental policy--United States--History.

Environmental policy.

Air--Pollution--History--United States.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (10, 321 p. )

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

College Station, TX : Texas A&M University Press, c2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"In Don't Breathe the Air, Scott Hamilton Dewey traces the history of air pollution control efforts, focusing on the decade of the sixties, and describes how local efforts helped create both the modern environmental movement and federal environmental policy."--Jacket.

Contents:

Introduction

Recurring cycles: a brief history of air pollution and control efforts in Britain and the United States before 1945

Trouble in paradise: the discovery of smog

Smog town vs. the motor city: taming the automobile

Folklore: the public confronts smog

Reinventing the wheel: air pollution control policy in New York City, 1945-70

A fight to the finish: the publics crusade against air pollution

Jersey: the interstate dilemma

The fickle finger of phosphate: industrial air pollution in rural central Florida

Conference, conciliation, and persuasion: public anger, official inaction

The perils of federalism: the intrastate dilemma

The three-thousand-mile-long sewer: air pollution as a national problem.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-307) and index.

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

0-585-37686-7