| Main Title |
The polluters : the making of our chemically altered environment / |
| Author |
Ross, Benjamin.
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| Other Authors |
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| Publisher |
Oxford University Press, |
| Year Published |
2010 |
| OCLC Number |
468853835 |
| ISBN |
9780199739950 (cloth : acid-free paper); 0199739951 (cloth : acid-free paper) |
| Subjects |
Chemical industry--Environmental aspects--United States ;
Chemicals--Environmental aspects--United States ;
Pollutants ;
Pollution--Environmental aspects--United States
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| Holdings |
| Library |
Call Number |
Additional Info |
Location |
Last
Modified |
Checkout
Status |
| EOAM |
TD195.C45R67 2010 |
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Region 8 Technical Library/Denver,CO |
09/07/2011 |
| ERAM |
TD195.C45 R67 2010 |
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Region 9 Library/San Francisco,CA |
03/28/2011 |
| ESAM |
TD195.C45R67 2010 |
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Region 10 Library/Seattle,WA |
01/03/2011 |
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| Collation |
viii, 223 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-213) and index. |
| Contents Notes |
The sorcerer's apprentices -- Summoning the spirits. Pollution goes to Washington ; The rise of the chemical industry ; Royd Sayers' Service Bureau -- Fetching a flood. The miracle bug-killer ; Wilhelm Hueper and environmental cancer ; Bad air in Los Angeles ; Donora's strangler smog ; A new deal for clean water ; Deregulation California's water ; The stealth pollutants -- Holding back the deluge. DuPont tries to clean up ; The industry responds ; From Donora to Love Canal -- Convenient hopes and inconvenient truths. Explains how the chemical industry, aided by a compliant government, was able to spread a wide variety of pollutants beginning in the years following World War II, despite the fact that the environmental dangers of such new synthetic chemical products as DDT and nylon were known by both industry and the scientific community. |
