The polluters : the making of our chemically altered environment / / Benjamin Ross, Steven Amter
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| Autore: |
Ross Benjamin
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| Titolo: |
The polluters : the making of our chemically altered environment / / Benjamin Ross, Steven Amter
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : Oxford University Press, 2010 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | viii, 223 p. : ill |
| Disciplina: | 363.7380973 |
| Soggetto topico: | Chemical industry - Environmental aspects - United States |
| Pollution - Environmental aspects - United States | |
| Pollutants | |
| Altri autori: |
AmterSteven
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| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The polluters |
| ISBN: | 0-19-975320-2 |
| 0-19-975297-4 | |
| 1-282-70281-5 | |
| 9786612702815 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910821363503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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