Displaying 1 of 1 2000 Format: Book Author: Freeze, R. Allan. Title: The environmental pendulum : a quest for the truth about toxic chemicals, human health, and environmental protection / R. Allan Freeze. Publisher, Date: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2000. Description: xiv, 323 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Summary: This is a scientific view of what toxic chemicals threaten our environment and our bodies, what risks are exaggerated, and what is being downplayed in the media (as revealed, for example, in A Civil Action). Subjects: Hazardous wastes -- Environmental aspects. Hazardous wastes -- Health aspects. Hazardous waste site remediation. Pollution. Hazardous wastes. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-309) and index. Contents: Prologue: A Day at Smithville -- The Polarization of the Environment -- Blenders and Buicks: The Environmental Consequences of Our Engineered Way of Life -- Environmental Contamination: What Matters and What Doesn't -- The Unpleasant Truths about Waste Management -- The Unpleasant Truths about Remediation -- The Regulatory Quagmire -- The Environmental Game -- Solutions. Web Site: Publisher description LCCN: 99011340 ISBN: 0520220463 9780520220461 0520220471 9780520220478 Other Number: 40645649 System Availability: 1 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 1 Control Number: 92684 # Local items in: 1 # System items in: 1 Call Number: 363.7384 Freeze Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
