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Title Fighting toxics : a manual for protecting your family community, and workplace / edited by Gary Cohen and John O'Connor ; foreword by Barry Commoner
Published Washington, D.C. : Island Press, ©1990

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 346 pages)
Contents The toxics crisis ; Organizing to win / John O'Connor -- Corporate campaigns / Peter Obstler and Richard Kazis -- Getting information / Ken Silver -- The neighborhood inspection / Richard Youngstrom -- Working with the media / Peter Obstler -- Federal statutes / Sanford Lewis -- Your legal recourse ; Local campaigns and the law / Sanford Lewis -- Preventing pollution / David Allen
Summary Provides a step-by-step guide illustrating how to investigate the toxic hazards that may exist in your community, how to determine the risks they pose to your health and how to launch an effective campaign to elminate them. Brings together the latest strategies for winning the war against toxics
Analysis Environmental health Citizen participation
Environmental health Political aspects
Environmentally induced diseases Prevention Citizen participation
Pollution Environmental aspects
Toxicology Political aspects
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Subject Environmental health -- Citizen participation
Environmental health -- Political aspects
Environmentally induced diseases -- Prevention -- Citizen participation
Pollution
Toxicology -- Political aspects
Environmental Pollution
Toxicology
toxicology.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Environmental -- Pollution Control.
Environmental health -- Citizen participation
Environmental health -- Political aspects
Pollution
Toxicology -- Political aspects
Form Electronic book
Author Cohen, Gary, 1956-
O'Connor, John T., 1954-
ISBN 9781597268844
1597268844