The environment since 1945
By: Marcos Luna
Series: Issues and controversies in American history
Publisher: Facts on File
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780816078844
Subjects: Environmental conditions; Environmental policy; Environmental disasters
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Donora smog : what was responsible for the deadly Donora smog of 1948?; title: Echo Park : should dams be allowed within a national monument?; title: National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969 : does NEPA create new and enforceable duties on the government to treat the environment differently?; title: DDT : should the Environmental Protection Agency have banned DDT?; title: Tellico Dam : should the Tellico Dam have been built?; title: Hazardous waste : who should pay for the cost of cleaning up hazardous waste sites?; title: Bhopal : who or what was responsible for the Bhopal disaster?; title: Exxon Valdez disaster : was the decision to levy punitive damages against Exxon fair?; title: Kyoto Protocol : should the United States have ratified the Kyoto Protocol on climate change?; title: The Makah whale hunt : should the Makah have killed a whale?; title: Environmental racism : was the siting of a cement plant in a poor, non-white neighborhood environmental discrimination?; title: Hurricane Katrina : what was responsible for the devastating flooding of New Orleans?