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Autore |
Wurster Charles F. |
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DDT wars : rescuing our national bird, preventing cancer, and creating Environmental Defense Fund / / Charles F. Wurster |
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New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015 |
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©2015 |
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ISBN |
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0-19-755951-4 |
0-19-021943-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (257 p.) |
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Collana |
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Oxford scholarship online |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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DDT (Insecticide) - Toxicology |
DDT (Insecticide) - Physiological effect |
DDT (Insecticide) - Environmental aspects |
Health promotion |
Environmental health |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Previously issued in print: 2015. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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""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 |
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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?"" |
""The Use of DDT for Controlling Malaria"" |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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