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Who's poisoning America : corporate polluters and their victims in the chemical age

Title
Who's poisoning America : corporate polluters and their victims in the chemical age / edited by Ralph Nader, Ronald Brownstein, John Richard.
Publication
San Francisco : Sierra Club Books, ©1981.

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Additional Authors
  • Nader, Ralph.
  • Brownstein, Ronald.
  • Richard, John, 1954-
Description
xiv, 369 pages; 22 cm
Summary
An introductory chapter about the chemical industry is followed by seven case studies of chemical pollution that reveal its source and its effects.
Subject
  • Environmental toxicology > United States
  • Pollution > United States
  • Pollution
  • Factory and trade waste
  • Environmental Pollutants > poisoning
  • Environmental Pollution
  • Industrial Waste
  • chemical pollution
  • pollution
  • Factory and trade waste
  • Environmental toxicology
  • Pollution
  • Schadstoffbelastung
  • Umwelttoxikologie
  • Chemische Industrie
  • POLLUTION
  • ENVIRONMENT POLLUTION
  • TOXICOLOGY
  • United States
  • USA
Note
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. [358]-361.
Contents
The toxic tragedy / R. Brownstein -- PBB / E.E. Grzech -- Kepone / C.B. Kelly -- West Valley / J.E. Armao -- PCBs in the Hudson River / J. Detjen -- An un-reserved judgment / A.E. Lind -- The politics of poison / J.D. Rabinovitch -- Love Canal / R. Mokhiber, L. Shen -- Conclusion / R. Nader.
ISBN
  • 0871562766
  • 9780871562760
  • 0871562804
  • 9780871562807
LCCN
80029608
OCLC
  • ocm07196618
  • 7196618
  • SCSB-27254
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library