Tainted Earth: Smelters, Public Health, And The Environment (Critical Issues In Health And Medicine)

Thoroughly grounded in extensive archival research, Tainted Earth traces the rise of public health concerns about nonferrous smelting in the western United States, focusing on three major facilities: Tacoma, Washington; El Paso, Texas; and Bunker Hill, Idaho. It documents the response from community residents, public health scientists, the industry, and the government to pollution from smelters and the long road to protecting public health and the environment.

• | Author: Marianne Sullivan
• | Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• | Publication Date: Jan 23, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 256 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0813562783
• | ISBN-13: 9780813562780