Title Sacrifice zones : the front lines of toxic chemical exposure in the United States / Steve Lerner ; foreword by Phil Brown

Published Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 346 pages) Contents Introduction -- Partial victories: Ocala, Florida : community blanketed by "black snow" from neighboring charcoal factory -- Pensacola, Florida : health problems near "Mount Dioxin" require mass relocation -- II. Contaminated air: Port Arthur, Texas : public housing residents breathe contaminated air from nearby refineries and chemical plants -- Corpus Christi, Texas : Hillcrest residents exposed to benzene in neighborhood next to refinery -- Addyston, Ohio : the plastics plant next door -- 6. Marietta, Ohio : steel-hardening plant spews tons of manganese into river valley town's air -- III. Contaminated water: Tallevast, Florida : rural residents live atop groundwater contaminated by high-tech weapons company -- San Antonio, Texas : contamination from Kelly Air Force Base suspected of causing sickness and death in adjacent Latino community -- IV. Contaminated soil: Daly City, California : Midway Village : public housing built on contaminated soil -- St. Lawrence Island, Alaska : Yupik Eskimos face contaminated water and traditional food supplies near former U.S. military bases -- Greenpoint, New York : giant oil spill spreads beneath Brooklyn neighborhood -- V. An ongoing puzzle: disease clusters possibly caused by multiple sources of pollution -- Fallon, Nevada : largest U.S. pediatric leukemia cluster near naval air station and tungsten smelter -- Conclusion Summary ""Sacrifice Zones is the compelling companion work to Diamond, Steve Lerner's landmark study of a small Louisiana town coping with the ravages of pollution from the factories surrounding it. In this book, Lerner travels to a dozen low-income, mostly minority communities around the country where the pressure to protect good-paying jobs takes a grim and painful toll on human health. As he did with such skill in Diamond, Lerner lets the people living, working, and in too many cases, dying from pollution in these 'fenceline communities' do the story telling. What the reader will be left with is shame and outrage that the richest country in the world has allowed entire communities to be sacrificed to pollution. But I believe you will also come away from this book with fresh resolve that our fellow citizens will not continue to be forgotten casualties of commerce."--Ken Cook, President, Environmental Working Group" ""This is a compelling treatise on why the dominant environmental protection apparatus should be overhauled to emphasize prevention, precaution, and equal protection. The book is a significant complement to three decades of environmental justice research that provides irrefutable empirical evidence that all American communities are not created equal."--Robert D. Bullard, Ware Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Director, Environmental Justice Resource Center, Clark Atlanta University" ""These case histories from fenceline America are compelling, beautifully detailed stories that integrate authentic voices from grassroots struggles for environmental justice. Lerner captures the nuance of these community struggles, and posits the common paradigm linking these twelve communities as he heralds the pain, the passion, the human cost of life and death in America's sacrifice zones."--Peggy M. Shepard, Executive Director and cofounder of WE ACT for Environmental Justice, New York City." Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-337) and index Notes English Print version record Subject Environmental toxicology -- United States -- Case studies Chemical spills -- Health aspects -- United States -- Case studies Hazardous substances -- Health aspects -- United States -- Case studies Hazardous substances -- Health aspects -- Alaska -- Saint Lawrence Island -- Case studies Hazardous waste sites -- United States -- Case studies Pollution -- United States -- Case studies Pollution -- Alaska -- Saint Lawrence Island -- Case studies Hazardous wastes. Chemical industry. Pollution. Prejudices. Pollution Environmental Exposure -- adverse effects Hazardous Waste Chemical Industry Environmental Pollution Prejudice Socioeconomic Factors hazardous waste. chemical pollution. pollution. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Economy. Prejudices Hazardous wastes Chemical industry Environmental toxicology Hazardous substances -- Health aspects Hazardous waste sites Pollution Miljögifter -- Förenta staterna. SUBJECT United States https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481 Subject Alaska -- Saint Lawrence Island United States Genre/Form Case studies Case studies. Études de cas. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780262289580 026228958X 9780262290067 0262290065 9780262288743 0262288745

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