Don't breathe the air : air pollution and U.S. environmental politics, 1945-1970 /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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College Station, Tex. :
Texas A & M University Press,
©2000.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Environmental history series ;
no. 16 |
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| Online Access: | http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=49436 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Recurring cycles: a brief history of air pollution and control efforts in Britain and the United States before 1945
- Trouble in paradise: the discovery of smog
- Smog town vs. the motor city: taming the automobile
- Folklore: the public confronts smog
- Reinventing the wheel: air pollution control policy in New York City, 1945-70
- A fight to the finish: the publics crusade against air pollution
- Jersey: the interstate dilemma
- The fickle finger of phosphate: industrial air pollution in rural central Florida
- Conference, conciliation, and persuasion: public anger, official inaction
- The perils of federalism: the intrastate dilemma
- The three-thousand-mile-long sewer: air pollution as a national problem.