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Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
This book offers a comprehensive examination of the environmental health movement, which unlike many parts of the environmental movement, focuses on ways toxic chemicals and other hazardous agents in the environment effect human health and well-being. Born in 1978 when Lois Gibbs organized her neighbors to protest the health effects of a toxic waste dump in Love Canal, New York, the movement has spread across the United States and throughout the world....
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In October 1948, a fog descended on the small town of Donora, Pennsylvania. The town's main industry was steel and zinc mills -- mills that continually emitted pollutants into the air. The six-day smog event left twenty-one people dead and thousands sick. Even after the fog lifted, hundreds more died or were left with lingering health problems. Donora Death Fog details how six fateful days in Donora led to the nation's first clean air act in 1955,...
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