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1) The appeal
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Wall street millionaire Carl Trudeau purchases an unsuspecting Mississippi State Supreme Court judge candidate when a lower court rules against one of his chemical companies for dumping toxic waste into a small town's water supply causing a cancer cluster.
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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Benjamin Ross and Steven Amter here tell the story of how the chemical industry, abetted by a compliant government, set loose a plague of pollution that began in the years before and directly following World War II, a plague that still lingers today. The advent of new synthetic chemical products such as Nylon and DDT created new hazards just as the expansion and mechanization of industry exacerbated old ones. Environmental dangers well known today--smog,...
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Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Following the trail of the synthetic molecules in our environment and our food, Robin traces the ugly history of industrial chemical production, as well as the shoddy regulatory system for chemical products that still operates today. Using scientific studies, expert testimony, and interviews with farmworkers suffering from acute chronic poisoning, Robin demonstrates how corporate interests-and our own ignorance-may be costing us our lives.
Series
Miscellaneous publication volume no. 1419
Publisher
U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Food Safety and Inspection Service : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O
Pub. Date
[1990]
8) The story of H.B. Fuller Company: innovative products, principles, policies and programs 1887-1993
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Newcomen Society of the United States
Pub. Date
1993
