The polluters
Subtitle: the making of our chemically altered environment
By: Benjamin Ross, Steven Amter.
Contributors: Amter, Steven.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9780199739950
Subjects: Chemical industry -- Environmental aspects -- United States; Chemicals -- Environmental aspects -- United States; Pollutants
Description: Explains how the chemical industry, aided by a compliant government, was able to spread a wide variety of pollutants beginning in the years following World War II, despite the fact that the environmental dangers of such new synthetic chemical products as DDT and nylon were known by both industry and the scientific community.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.