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Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power
by Mark Schapiro  Publisher Comments 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...
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Mother Earth and Uncle Sam: How Pollution and Hollow Government Hurt Our Kids
by Rena I Steinzor Publisher Comments In this compelling study, Rena Steinzor highlights the ways in which the government, over the past twenty years, has failed to protect children from harm caused by toxic chemicals. She believes these failures--under-funding, excessive and misguided use...
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When Smoke Ran Like Water: Tales of Environmental Deception and the Battle Against Pollution
by Devra Davis 
Publisher Comments In When Smoke Ran Like Water, the world-renowned epidemiologist Devra Davis confronts the public triumphs and private failures of her lifelong battle against environmental pollution. She documents the shocking toll of a public-health disaster-300,000...
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Environmental Concerns (Social Biology Topics)
by Peter Alma Publisher Comments This series of A-level social biology topic books responds to the changing demands of social biology syllabuses, with each text dealing with a particular area of interest. Although the series is primarily intended for students of A-level social biology...
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An Air That Kills: How the Asbestos Poisoning of Libby, Montana, Uncovered a National Scandal
by Andrew Schneider Publisher Comments 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...
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Love Canal Revisited: Race, Class, and Gender in Environmental Activism
by Elizabeth D. Blum Publisher Comments Thirty years after the headlines, Love Canal remains synonymous with toxic waste. When this neighborhood of Niagara Falls, New York, burst upon the nation's consciousness, the media focused on a working-class white woman named Lois Gibbs, who gained...
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Environmental Hazards: Marine Pollution
by Martha Gorman Book News Annotation Provides convenient access to numerous sources on marine pollution, both print and non-print. As is typical for this series, gives an overview of the topic, chronology, biographical sketches of relevant figures (Rachel Carson, Jacques Cousteau), legal...
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Water
by Patricia Bragg Publisher Comments This book tells you the shocking truth about what is in our drinking water....
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Toxic Exposures: Contested Illnesses and the Environmental Health Movement
by Phil Brown Synopsis 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...
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Environmental Compliance Manual for Land Transportation
by Blymyer Engineers Book News Annotation Describes the federal requirements for environmental programs in order to provide corporate managers of trucking and railroad operations with the information they need to develop and maintain corporate policies, thereby minimizing the environmental...
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Risk and Culture
by Mary Douglas Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references and index....
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Politics, Pollution and Pandas: An Environmental Memoir
by Russell E Train Publisher Comments "This is an adventure story-not among the wild animals he knows so well but among the politicians as he pioneered the efforts to conserve our wildlife, our natural resources, and the very atmosphere that supports us all. It is a history invaluable to...
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Hazardous Waste Management
by Michael D Lagrega Book News Annotation A senior undergraduate or first-year graduate level textbook sufficient to support a two-semester or three-quarter course for engineering students. It provides a comprehensive introduction to the field that combines a theoretical framework with the...
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Advances in Environmental Science & Technology #26-2: Arsenic in the Environment, Cycling and Characterization
by Jerome O Nriagu Book News Annotation 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...
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An Air That Kills: How the Asbestos Poisoning of Libby, Montana, Uncovered a National Scandal
by Andrew Schneider Publisher Comments The horrifying true story of the decades-long poisoning of a small town and the definitive exposof asbestos in America-told by the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists who broke it. In a valley in Montana, the U.S. has spent millions of dollars removing...
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Body Toxic: An Environmental Memoir
by Susanne Antonetta
Publisher Comments 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...
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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 Publisher Comments 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...
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Toxics A to Z
by John Harte Publisher Comments '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.'...
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Boiling Point: How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal, Journalists, and Activists Have Fueled the Climate Crisis and What We Can Do to Ave
by Ross Gelbspan Publisher Comments In Boiling Point, Ross Gelbspan argues that, unchecked, climate change will swamp every other issue facing us today. Indeed, what began as an initial response of many institutions--denial and delay--has now grown into a crime against humanity. The fossil...
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From the Bottom Up: One Man's Crusade to Clean America's Rivers
by Chad Pregracke Synopsis 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...
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