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9780520220478

The Environmental Pendulum: A Quest for the Truth About Toxic Chemicals, Human Health, and Environmental Protection

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  • ISBN13:

    9780520220478

  • ISBN10:

    0520220471

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2000-04-01
  • Publisher: Ingram Publisher Services, Inc.

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Summary

This is a scientific view of what toxic chemicals threaten our environment and our bodies, what risks are exaggerated, and what is being downplayed in the media (as revealed, for example, in A Civil Action).

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
ix
List of Tables
xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Prologue A Day at Smithville 1(6)
The Polarization of the Environment
7(41)
Blenders and Buicks: The Environmental Consequences of Our Engineered Way of Life
48(46)
Environmental Contamination: What Matters and What Doesn't
94(53)
The Unpleasant Truths about Waste Management
147(50)
The Unpleasant Truths about Remediation
197(24)
The Regulatory Quagmire
221(32)
The Environmental Game
253(29)
Solutions
282(9)
Sources 291(20)
Index 311

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