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Poisoning for profit : the Mafia and toxic waste in America

Title
Poisoning for profit : the Mafia and toxic waste in America / Alan A. Block and Frank R. Scarpitti.
Author
Block, Alan A.
Publication
New York : W. Morrow, ©1985.

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Additional Authors
Scarpitti, Frank R.
Description
361 pages; 25 cm
Subject
  • Hazardous waste management industry > Corrupt practices > United States
  • Mafia > United States
  • Pollution > United States
  • Hazardous wastes > Management > Corrupt practices > United States
  • Hazardous waste management industry > Corrupt practices
  • Mafia
  • Pollution
  • Organisiertes Verbrechen
  • Sonderabfallbeseitigung
  • United States
  • USA
Note
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 348-352.
Contents
1. Fear death by water -- 2. The environmental time bomb -- 3. When garbage was garbage -- 4. Organized crime moves in -- 5. Problems in the Northeast -- 6. Controlling the damage -- 7. Landfills and the politics of waste -- 8. The secret government of waste -- 9. The chemical control nightmare -- 10. Across the nation and beyound -- 11. The failure of enforcement.
ISBN
  • 0688039707
  • 9780688039707
LCCN
84062024
OCLC
  • ocm11680161
  • 11680161
  • SCSB-614924
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library