Don't Breathe the Air
Subtitle: Air Pollution and U.S. Environmental Politics, 1945-1970 (Environmental History Series)
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: September 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 321
ISBN-13: 9780890969144
Subjects: Atmospheric pollution; Environmentalist, conservationist & Green organizations; History of specific subjects; c 1945 to c 1960; c 1960 to c 1970; Environmentalism; Ecological Politics; United States; Nature; Environmental Studies; Pollution; Politics/International Relations; USA; History; Environmental Science; Public Policy - General; Environmental Conservation & Protection - General; Public Affairs & Administration; Air; Environmental policy
Description: "In Don't Breathe the Air, Scott Hamilton Dewey traces the history of air pollution control efforts, focusing on the decade of the sixties, and describes how local efforts helped create both the modern environmental movement and federal environmental policy."--BOOK JACKET.