Main Title |
Don't breathe the air : air pollution and U.S. environmental politics, 1945-1970 / |
Author |
Dewey, Scott Hamilton.
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Publisher |
Texas A & M University Press, |
Year Published |
2000 |
OCLC Number |
42968130 |
ISBN |
0585376867; 9780585376868; 0890969140; 9780890969144 |
Subjects |
Air--Pollution--United States--History ;
Environmentalism--United States--History ;
Environmental policy--United States--History ;
Luftverschmutzung ;
USA
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Internet Access |
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Holdings |
Library |
Call Number |
Additional Info |
Location |
Last Modified |
Checkout Status |
EJAM |
TD883.2.D48 2000 |
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Region 3 Library/Philadelphia, PA |
11/02/2001 |
EJCM |
AIR POLLUTION LAW |
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Law Library/Washington,DC |
07/05/2002 |
EKAM |
TD883.2.D48 2000 |
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Region 4 Library/Atlanta,GA |
07/07/2021 |
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Edition |
1st ed. |
Collation |
10, 321 pages ; 25 cm. |
Notes |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-307) and index. |
Contents Notes |
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. "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. |
Place Published |
College Station, TX |
Access Notes |
Also available as an electronic book via the World Wide Web to institutions affiliated with netLibrary, Inc. |
Title Ser Add Ent |
Environmental history series ; no. 16. |
PUB Date Free Form |
©2000 |
Series Title Traced |
Environmental history series ; no. 16 |
Series Title Untraced |
Environmental history series ; no. 16 |
BIB Level |
m |
Medium |
unmediated |
Content |
text |
Carrier |
volume |
Cataloging Source |
OCLC/T |
LCCN |
99088267 |
Merged OCLC records |
898707937; 961592250; 962593702; 1225682298 |
OCLC Time Stamp |
20210701051032 |
Language |
eng |
Origin |
OCLC |
Type |
CAT |
OCLC Rec Leader |
03821cam 22006374a 45010 |