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Author Ross, Benjamin.

Title The polluters : the making of our chemically altered environment / Benjamin Ross, Steven Amter.

Publication Info. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.

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Location Call No. Status
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  363.738 R73    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  363.738 ROSS    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  363.738 RO    Check Shelf
Description viii, 223 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents The sorcerer's apprentices -- Pollution goes to Washington -- The rise of the chemical industry -- Royd Sayers' service bureau -- 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 -- DuPont tries to clean up -- The industry responds -- From Donora to Love Canal -- Epilogue: convenient hopes and inconvenient truths.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject Chemical industry -- Environmental aspects -- United States.
Pollution -- United States.
Pollutants.
Added Author Amter, Steven.
ISBN 9780199739950 cloth alkaline paper
0199739951 cloth alkaline paper
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