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Night fire : big oil, poison air, and Margie Richard's fight to save her town / Ronnie Greene.

Title
Night fire : big oil, poison air, and Margie Richard's fight to save her town / Ronnie Greene.
Author
Greene, Ronnie
Publication
New York : Amistad/Harper Collins Publishers, c2008.

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274 p.; 24 cm.
Summary
"The Diamond neighborhood was an all-black enclave in the mostly white town of Norco, Louisiana, aptly named for the New Orleans Refining Co., an industrial processing plant. Margie Eugene Richard was raised in the shadow of a giant chemical plant operated by Shell, and witnessed her neighbors fall ill amid the toxic waste the plant emitted year after year. Her own sister, Naomi, eventually succumbed to a rare lung disease linked to environmental hazards. Determined to see Shell take responsibility for its actions, Margie and her neighbors--largely poor and with few obvious resources--educated themselves not only on the consequences of environmental poison but also on how to fight back. The battle took them from Diamond's four streets all the way to The Hague and beyond. The unexpected results won Margie the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize and helped clean up a community."--Dust jacket flap.
Subject
  • Richard, Margie Eugene
  • Shell Chemical Company
  • Petroleum industry and trade > Social aspects > Norco
  • Pollution > Norco
  • African American neighborhoods > Norco > Environmental conditions
  • Environmental health > Norco > Citizen participation
  • Norco (La.) > History
Contents
1 Death in Diamond 3 -- 2 Sisters and Secrts 20 -- 3 Pearl Harbor 35 -- 4 A Mission 49 -- 5 Grass Roots and Lawsuits 64 -- 6 "A Fast Routine" 75 -- 7 Richards v. Shell 80 -- 8 Proof 95 -- 9 In the Courtroom 100 -- 10 Theodore Eugene 111 -- 11 "Minor Inconveniences" 115 -- 12 Norco Elementary 132 -- 13 Allies 156 -- 14 The Whistle-Blower 178 -- 15 The Offer 184 -- 16 "Toxic Park" 202 -- 17 Mabel Eugene 210 -- 18 Clearing Out Four Dead Ends 216 -- 19 Goldman 227.
ISBN
  • 9780061123627 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 0061123625 (hardcover : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2007042653
OCLC
176648884
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library