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

• Autore: Wurster Charles F.
• Pubblicazione: New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (257 p.)
• Disciplina: 632/.9517
• Soggetto topico: DDT (Insecticide) - Toxicology; DDT (Insecticide) - Physiological effect; DDT (Insecticide) - Environmental aspects; Health promotion; Environmental health
• Note generali: Previously issued in print: 2015.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""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 Doesnâ€?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 Safeâ€?""; ""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 Againâ€?40 Years Later. Why?"" ; ""The Use of DDT for Controlling Malaria""
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: DDT wars
• ISBN: 0-19-755951-4; 0-19-021943-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910797186203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Oxford scholarship online.