DDT Wars

DDT Wars

Rescuing Our National Bird, Preventing Cancer, and Creating EDF

Wurster, Charles F. (Associate Professor of Environmental Toxicology, State University of New York at Stony Brook)

Oxford University Press Inc

12/2015

256

Dura

Inglês

9780190219413

15 a 20 dias

A firsthand account of the Environmental Defense Fund's battle to ban DDT from use as a pesticide, written by a founding member of the EDF. Describes the various legal and scientific maneuvers required to have the Environmental Protection Agency officially ban DDT.
Chapter 1. A Robin With Uncontrollable Convulsions ; Chapter 2. Sue the Bastards on Long Island: The Power of an Idea ; Chapter 3. Proceed With Caution, Then Sue the Bastards in Michigan ; Chapter 4. On to Wisconsin, the Dairy State ; Chapter 5. EDF, Barely An Organization, Getting Its Act Together ; Chapter 6. EDF Diversifies Into New Environmental Arenas ; Chapter 7: Time to Go after the Feds ; Chapter 8. Escalating the DDT Issue with More Court Cases ; Chapter 9. Important Changes in Washington Affect the DDT Battle ; Chapter 10. DDT Goes To Trial, Finally, in Washington, DC ; Chapter 11. EPA Administrator Ruckelshaus Decides ; Chapter 12. Several Encores: Five More Bad Actors Were Dispatched ; Chapter 13. The DDT Wars: Four Great Victories ; EPILOGUE - The Last Word, President Fred Krupp
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