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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Ross, Benjamin.     Subjects     Chemical industry -- Environmental aspects -- United States.     Pollution -- Environmental aspects -- United States.     Pollutants.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Ross, Benjamin.       by title:      The polluters : the ...         MARC Display

The polluters : the making of our chemically altered environment / Benjamin Ross, Steven Amter. by Ross, Benjamin. New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2010. Subjects Chemical industry -- Environmental aspects -- United States.   Pollution -- Environmental aspects -- United States.   Pollutants. ISBN:  9780199739950 (cloth : acid-free paper) : 0199739951 (cloth : acid-free paper) Description:  viii, 223 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Contents:  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. Requests:  0 Summary:  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.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hana P/S Library Adult Nonfiction 363.73809 Ro missing from shelf Add Copy to MyList Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 363.73809 Ro Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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