Silent Spill
Subtitle: The Organization of an Industrial Crisis (Urban and Industrial Environments)
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: February 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780262025126
Subjects: Central government policies; Environmental impact of industrial disasters; Oil Pollution; Wild Animal And Bird Protection; Social Science; Environmental Studies; Business/Economics; Environmental Science; Industries - Energy Industries; Sociology - General; Science / Environmental Science; Environmental Engineering & Technology; Wildlife; California; Environmental aspects; Guadalupe Region; Oil spills; Petroleum industry and trade; Pollution; Public opinion
First sentence: Underneath the Guadalupe Dunes-a windswept piece of wilderness 170 miles north of Los Angeles and 250 miles south of San Francisco-sits the largest petroleum spill in US history.