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Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power
by Mark Schapiro
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In contrast to America's corporate-hostage government, the European Union is charting a new path that, by requiring safe products, is revamping how industry can work and succeed. Schapiro takes the reader inside a global power shift that has gone almost... ( read more)
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Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power
by Mark Schapiro
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Winner of the 2008 NAUTILUS SILVER AWARD in the category of Ecology/Environment/Sustainability and Conscious Media/JournalismFrom tainted pet food to toxic toys, Americans can thank the successful lobbying efforts of the U.S. chemical industry for the... ( read more)
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Fatal Deception: The Terrifying True Story of How Asbestos Is Killing America
by Michael Bowker
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STILL LEGAL, STILL LETHAL Most Americans mistakenly believe asbestos was banned long ago. In fact, it is still legal and can still kill you. Its microscopic fibers cause painful and incurable diseases. Despite being outlawed in nearly every other... ( read more)
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An Air That Kills: How the Asbestos Poisoning of Libby, Montana, Uncovered a National Scandal
by Andrew Schneider
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An Air That Kills is the horrifying true story of the decades-long poisoning of a small town and the definitive exposandeacute of asbestos in America-all told by the prize-winning journalists who broke it. This is the story of miners who were unaware of... ( read more)
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Toxic Exposures: Contested Illnesses and the Environmental Health Movement
by Phil Brown
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The increase in environmentally induced diseases and the loosening of regulation and safety measures have inspired a massive challenge to established ways of looking at health and the environment. Communities with disease clusters, women facing a growing... ( read more)
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Synthetic Planet: Chemical Politics and the Hazards of Modern Life
by Monica J Casper
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From chemistry sets to chemical weapons, from plastics to pesticides, and from air pollution to Agent Orange, industrial chemicals have transformed the way we live. Industrial chemicals have brought many good things to life, but at what cost - disease... ( read more)
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Advances in Environmental Science & Technology #26-2: Arsenic in the Environment, Cycling and Characterization
by Jerome O Nriagu
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The self-contained first of two volumes that cover both the chemistry
and effects of the legendary toxin. For chemists and environmental
engineers, explores such aspects as arsenic's history, chemical
composition, characteristics, behavior in the... ( read more)
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Economic Losses from Marine Pollution a Handbook for Assessment
by Douglas D Ofiara
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Marine pollution causes significant damage to fisheries and other economically productive uses of the ocean. The value of that damage can be quantified by economists, but the meanings of those valuations and how they are derived are often obscure to... ( read more)
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Body Toxic: An Environmental Memoir
by Susanne Antonetta
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For readers of A Civil Action and Silent Spring, comes Body Toxic, a harrowing story of a family, a body, and a place — among the Pine Barrens of southern New Jersey, in one of the most environmentally contaminated counties in the country... ( read more)
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Environment & Policy #10: Lowering the Cost of Emission Reduction: Joint Implementation in the Framework Convention on Climate Change
by Michael A Ridley
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Lowering the Cost of Emission Reduction by Dr Michael Ridley investigates a novel way to reduce the cost of carbon dioxide and sulphur dioxide emission reduction. This book asks whether allowing countries to substitute emission reduction undertaken... ( read more)
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Sizing and Selecting Air Pollution Control Systems
by Frank L Cross
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This book is designed to acquaint the reader with current regulations and with the necessary information to size air pollution control systems. The material presented should also help enable one to select the appropriate equipment for retrofit or new... ( read more)
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Toxics A to Z
by John Harte
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'Toxics A to Z is comprehensive, readable, usable, and --given the authors' sound, practical advice--quite doable. This well-organized book informs in clear contexts what we as consumers as we as citizens can do for a healthful environment.'... ( read more)
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From the Bottom Up: One Man's Crusade to Clean America's Rivers
by Jeff Barrow
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Chad Pregracke was a high school student when he first glimpsed the trash that littered the bottom of the Mississippi, a shocking sight that launched him on a quest to clean up the river. After four discouraging years seeking government help without... ( read more)
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Introduction To Environmental Analysis (02 Edition)
by Roger N. Reeve
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Welche analytischen Verfahren wendet man zur Charakterisierung von Umweltproben an? Antwort auf diese Frage gibt Ihnen der Autor dieses Bandes. Ausführlich erläutert er die umweltspezifischen Einsatzgebiete von Gas- und Flü... ( read more)
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The Politics of Air Pollution: Urban Growth, Ecological Modernization, and Symbolic Inclusion
by George A. Gonzalez
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Who has been at the political forefront of clean air policy development in the United States? In The Politics of Air Pollution, George A. Gonzalez argues that the answer is neither the federal government, nor environmental groups, but rather locally... ( read more)
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The Algal Bowl: Overfertilization of the World's Freshwaters and Estuaries
by David W Schindler
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The greatest threat to water quality worldwide is nutrient pollution. Cultural eutrophication by nutrients in sewage, fertilizers, and detergents is feeding massive algal blooms, choking out aquatic life and outpacing heavy metals, oil spills, and other... ( read more)
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Trash (Alphabet City)
by John Knechtel
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Trash: the emptied out, the used up, the broken, the outgrown, the obsolete; the dispossessed, the lost, the left behind. In Trash, writers, artists, and filmmakers look at how we are defined by what we waste and discover that we are what we throw away... ( read more)
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Acid Rain in the Adirondacks: An Environmental History
by Jerry Jenkins
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Jenkins (Wildlife Conservation Society) chronicles the deposition of
acids and mercury from fossil fuel combustion onto the Adirondack
Mountains region, and how researchers measured the acid rain and
traced it ecological effects. Color graphs and maps... ( read more)
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High Tech Trash: Digital Devices, Hidden Toxics, and Human Health
by Elizabeth Grossman
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The Digital Age was expected to usher in an era of clean production, an alternative to smokestack industries and their pollutants. But as environmental journalist Elizabeth Grossman reveals in this penetrating analysis of high tech manufacture and... ( read more)
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The Great Lead Water Pipe Disaster
by Werner Troesken
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In The Great Lead Water Pipe Disaster, Werner Troesken looks at a long-running environmental and public health catastrophe: 150 years of lead pipes in local water systems and the associated sickness, premature death, political inaction, and social denial.... ( read more)
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