Title: Laying waste :
Authors: Brown, Michael H.
Date: 1980
Publisher: Pantheon Books,
Physical description: xv, 351 pages ; 22 cm
Language: English
LC classification: T
Abstract: In 1978, a local reporter horrified the nation with his award-winning expose of the Love Canal toxic waste scandal in Niagara Falls. Now, in his chilling account of America's most devastating ecological problem, that reporter, Michael Brown, tells the whole Love Canal story, and exposes more of the thousands of chemical waste dumps across the United States that have contaminated our water, our soil - the very air we breathe - causing life-threatening medical problems for innocent victims. Not since Rachel Carson's Silent Spring have we been so boldly challenged to halt the relentless destruction of our environment - and ourselves.
Contents: I. The legacy of the Hooker Chemical Company : Love's new model city ; "You're letting us die" ; Bloody run ; The barrels out back -- II. Toxic America : Iowa: Nor any drop to drink ; Tennessee: "Nobody cares no more" ; New Jersey: Blight in the Garden State ; Louisiana: Devil's swamp ; California: Catching up fast ; Michigan: Something in Hemlock ; Maryland: The trial of Dr. Capurro -- III. Losing Control : Merchants of poison ; Under the moonlight ; The guilt of garbage ; Radwaste ; Beyond count ; "Garbagegate" -- The road back.
Notes: Includes index.
Subject headings (LCSH): Hazardous wastes--New York (State)--Niagara (Town); Hazardous wastes--New York (State)--Niagara Falls (City); Hazardous wastes--New York (State)--Niagara Falls.; Hazardous wastes--United States.