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020    9781608199143|q(hbk. : alk. paper) 
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100 1  Vallianatos, E. G. 
245 10 Poison spring :|bthe secret history of pollution and the 
       EPA /|cE.G. Vallianatos with McKay Jenkins. 
250    1st U.S. edition. 
264  1 New York :|bBloomsbury Press,|c2014. 
300    xviii, 284 pages ;|c25 cm 
336    text|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|2rdamedia 
338    volume|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-272) and 
       index. 
505 0  A country bathed in man-made chemicals -- The EPA nobody 
       knows -- Pest control: a matter of merchandising -- The 
       dioxin molecule of death -- DDT: a new principle of 
       toxicology -- Why are the honeybees disappearing? -- 
       Agricultural warfare -- The swamp: the big business of 
       fraudulent science -- Whistle-blowers and what they're up 
       against -- When will the well run dry? -- Fallout -- The 
       hubris of the Reagan administration -- From Reagan to Bush
       -- The Obama administration: Yes, we can? -- Better living
       and a healthier natural world through small family farms. 
520    "Imagine walking into a restaurant and finding chlorinated
       hydrocarbon pesticides, or neonicotinoid insecticides 
       listed in the description of your entree. They may not be 
       printed in the menu, but many are in your food. These are 
       a few of the literally millions of pounds of approved 
       synthetic substances dumped into the environment every day,
       not just in the US but around the world. They seep into 
       our water supply, are carried thousands of miles by wind 
       and rain from the site of application, remain potent long 
       after they are deposited, and constitute, in the words of 
       one scientist, "biologic death bombs with a delayed time 
       fuse and which may prove to be, in the long run, as 
       dangerous to the existence of mankind as the arsenal of 
       atom bombs." All of these poisons are sanctioned--or in 
       some cases, ignored--by the EPA. For twenty-five years 
       E.G. Vallianatos saw the EPA from the inside, with rising 
       dismay over how pressure from politicians and threats from
       huge corporations were turning it from the public's 
       watchdog into a "polluter's protection agency." Based on 
       his own experience, the testimony of colleagues, and 
       hundreds of documents Vallianatos collected inside the EPA,
       Poison Spring reveals how the agency has continually 
       reinforced the chemical-industrial complex. Writing with 
       acclaimed environmental journalist McKay Jenkins, E.G. 
       Vallianatos provides a devastating exposé of how the 
       agency created to protect Americans and our environment 
       has betrayed its mission. Half a century after after 
       Rachel Carson's Silent Spring awakened us to the dangers 
       of pesticides, we are poisoning our lands and waters with 
       more toxic chemicals than ever" --|cfrom publisher's web 
       site. 
598    AVONNFIC, ENFDNFIC 
610 10 United States.|bEnvironmental Protection Agency. 
650  0 Pollution|xResearch|zUnited States. 
650  0 Corporate power|zUnited States. 
650  0 Environmental responsibility|zUnited States. 
700 1  Jenkins, McKay,|d1963- 
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