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Hot sky at midnight / by Silverberg, Robert.(CARDINAL)155646;
Subjects: Science fiction.; Pollution; Contamination (Technology);
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Protect your family : reduce contamination at home : a summary of a study / by National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.(CARDINAL)142572;
Subjects: Hazardous substances; Contamination (Technology);
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Poisoning the well : how forever chemicals contaminated America / by Udasin, Sharon,author.; Frazin, Rachel,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-244) and index.Introduction. Forever and everywhere -- A glorious future -- A very toxic compound -- So many ailments -- All settled? -- Miracle foam -- Boots on the ground -- Unqualified immunity -- A win-win? -- First in the nation -- A premature victory dance -- The next generation -- Whac-A-Mole -- The real fix -- Epilogue."My life won't be in vain"."This is the shocking true-life story of how PFAS -- a set of toxic chemicals most people have never heard of -- poisoned the entire country. Based on original, shoe-leather reporting in four highly contaminated towns and damning documents from the polluters' own files, Poisoning the Well traces an ugly history of corporate greed and devastation of human lives. We learn that PFAS, the "forever chemicals" found in everyday products, from cooking pans to mascara, are coursing through the veins of ninety-seven percent of Americans. We witness the pain of families who lost sisters and daughters, cousins and neighbors, after PFAS leached into their drinking water. We discover evidence that the forever chemicals industry may have known for decades about the deadly risks of their products -- because internal scientists have been documenting these dangers since the 1960s. And we see the failure of our government, time after time, to provide basic protections to its citizens. It is impossible to read this searing exposé without being infuriated by the recklessness of corporate America. But readers will also be awed by the spirit of ordinary people who, while fighting for their own lives, took it upon themselves to fix a broken regulatory system. Heart-wrenching and maddening, stirring and uplifting, this story offers a unique window into the worst and best of human nature. Poisoning the Well is essential reading for anyone concerned about the unfettered power of industry and the invisible threat it poses to the health of the nation -- and to each of us"--
Subjects: Informational works.; Perfluorinated chemicals; Perfluorinated chemicals; Chemical industry.; Environmental health.; Contamination (Technology); Perfluorinated chemicals; Social responsibility of business; Environmental toxicology;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 9
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They poisoned the world : life and death in the age of forever chemicals / by Blake, Mariah,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-280) and index.Author's note -- Preface -- A bump in the road -- Teflon town -- Lucifer's gas -- Exile to Devil's Island -- A catch-22 -- Biological dynamite -- Blood secrets -- The tipping point -- Welcome to beautiful Parkersburg, West Virginia -- A rock in the machine -- "They poisoned the world" -- The reckoning -- Cloud nine -- Dirty water, dirty deal -- Accidental activists -- What-ifs and worst-case scenarios -- Wall of resistance -- Victory -- To the ends of the world -- Epilogue."A landmark investigation of the chemical industry's decades-long campaign to hide the devastating effects of "forever chemicals," told through the story of a small town on the frontline of an epic public health crisis"--
Subjects: Informational works.; Environmental health; Chemical industry; Perfluorinated chemicals; Water; Contamination (Technology);
Available copies: 18 / Total copies: 27
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Workshop on Innovative Technologies for Treatment of Contaminated Sediments : June 13-14, 1990 : summary report / by Workshop on Innovative Technologies for Treatment of Contaminated Sediments(1990 :Cincinnati, Ohio)(CARDINAL)216742; Herrmann, Jonathan G.(CARDINAL)168978; McNelly, Gregory D.(CARDINAL)216743; Sukol, Roxanne Breines.(CARDINAL)216741; United States.Environmental Protection Agency.Great Lakes National Program Office.(CARDINAL)136770; United States.Environmental Protection Agency.Office of Water Regulations and Standards.(CARDINAL)156502; PEI Associates.(CARDINAL)179683; Risk Reduction Engineering Laboratory (U.S.)(CARDINAL)216037;
Subjects: Lake sediments; Water;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Cleveland County NC : Lattimore Landfarming Dispute.
Subjects: Landfarming; Landfarms.; Soil Technologies; Contaminated soil, Treatment.; Waste treatment.;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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Mercury contamination : a human tragedy / by D'Itri, Patricia Ward.(CARDINAL)160885; D'Itri, Frank M.(CARDINAL)126815;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Mercury; Mercury;
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Hazardous waste in America / by Epstein, Samuel S.(CARDINAL)123117; Brown, Lester O.(CARDINAL)163947; Pope, Carl.(CARDINAL)163964;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Part 1. Introduction. The problem of hazardous waste. Part 2. Case studies. Introduction to case studies -- Dumping in rural America -- Dumping in groundwater -- Dumping in Niagara Falls -- Dumping waste oil -- Midnight dumping. Part 3. The law. Legislation of hazardous wastes -- Regulation of hazardous wastes -- The citizen's legal guide to hazardous wastes. Part 4. Problems and technologies. Groundwater contamination -- The technology of disposal. Part 5. The future. Where do we go from here?. References. Appendices.The statistics on hazardous chemical waste are staggering. Over 85 billion pounds of waste are generated in the United States every year. The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that at least 90% of these toxic substances are disposed of improperly and unsafely. There are more than 50,000 dump sites for hazardous wastes in the country, involving every state in the union, and only a few of these sites are monitored to any degree. In Hazardous Waste in America three experts have gone behind the statistics and scare stories to investigate the origins of this "toxic time bomb." They explain not only what the wastes are, but why our economy produces them, what properties make them dangerous and how they have come to threaten our lives and our environment. -- inside cover (flap text)
Subjects: Hazardous wastes; Hazardous wastes;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Baptized in PCBs : race, pollution, and justice in an all-American town / by Spears, Ellen Griffith.(CARDINAL)658094;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-409) and index.Abbreviations -- Introduction: Toxic Knowledge -- The Model City : A Romance of the New South -- The War for Chemical Supremacy -- Monsanto's Move "Down South" -- A Technological High Command -- War in a Time of Peace -- The Nature of the Poison -- The Death of Aroclors -- Challenging the Green Dragon -- Contaminated Bodies, Contaminated Soil -- Witnessing the Explosion in Toxic Torts -- Aftershocks -- Epilogue: Remodeling the Model City."In the mid-1990s, residents of Anniston, Alabama, began a legal fight against the agrochemical company Monsanto over the dumping of PCBs in the city's historically African American and white working-class west side. Simultaneously, Anniston environmentalists sought to safely eliminate chemical weaponry that had been secretly stockpiled near the city during the Cold War. In this probing work, Ellen Griffith Spears offers a compelling narrative of Anniston's battles for environmental justice, exposing how systemic racial and class inequalities reinforced during the Jim Crow era played out in these intense contemporary social movements. Spears focuses attention on key figures who shaped Anniston--from Monsanto's founders, to white and African American activists, to the ordinary Anniston residents whose lives and health were deeply affected by the town's military-industrial history and the legacy of racism. Situating the personal struggles and triumphs of Anniston residents within a larger national story of regulatory regimes and legal strategies that have affected toxic towns across America, Spears unflinchingly explores the causes and implications of environmental inequalities, showing how civil rights movement activism undergirded Anniston's campaigns for redemption and justice. "--
Subjects: Monsanto Company; Polychlorinated biphenyls; Polychlorinated biphenyls; Environmental justice; Environmental health; African Americans; Working class;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Recycling of lead-contaminated blasting sand in construction materials / by Khosla, N. Paul.(CARDINAL)182948; Leming, Michael L.(CARDINAL)196868; North Carolina Pollution Prevention Pays Program.(CARDINAL)194568;
Bibliography: page 20.
Subjects: Recycling (Waste, etc.);
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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