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| 文件类型： | 书 |
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| 所有的著者/提供者： |
Benjamin Ross; Steven Amter |
| ISBN: | 9780199739950 0199739951 |
| OCLC号码： | 468853835 |
| 描述： | viii, 223 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| 内容： | 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. |
| 责任： | Benjamin Ross, Steven Amter. |
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"The engrossing, infuriating history of American pollution... An important, disheartening account of widespread willful ignorance."--Kirkus Reviews
"Startling, intense, and brilliantly elucidated... sharply relevant to the present-day disasters of the BP oil spill and the Upper Big Branch Mine explosion... an unlikely page-turner."--Booklist
"The Polluters documents how the strategies used by today's polluters to duck regulation of their toxic chemicals were pioneered by polluters who poisoned the American landscape and killed hundreds of Americans in the early twentieth century. For nearly one-hundred years, corporate polluters have subverted democracy and corrupted public officials to control government regulation of toxic chemicals maximizing profits at the expense of public health."--Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
"The Polluters is a readable, comprehensive and authoritative study of the history of pollution. No matter how much you think you know about this issue, you'll learn something from this book--and you'll be outraged as well as informed."--David Kusnet, Chief Speechwriter for President Bill Clinton, 1992-1994
"The Polluters is a fascinating account of how the polluters in this country got away with murder for decades. This book puts a name and face on the many polluters who knew for years the damage they were doing to the public's health and to the environment and unveils their efforts to cover up the effects of this pollution; a must for any activist who wants to understand the strategies these polluters used to continue business as usual."--Lois Gibbs, Executive Director, Center for Health, Environment & Justice
"The Polluters details how the chemical industry in the 20th century erected political and scientific barriers to government oversight by failing to test the toxicity of their compounds or, worse, keeping secret damning data about health risks of widely used and profitable chemicals."--Lyndsey Layton
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