Slick policy : environmental and science policy in the aftermath of the Santa Barbara oil spill /

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In January 1969, the blowout on an offshore oil platform off the coast of Santa Barbara, California, and the resulting oil spill proved to be a transformative event in pollution control and the nascent environmental activism movement. It accelerated the advancement of federal government policies and...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Spezio, Teresa Sabol (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2018]
Collection:History of the urban environment.
Sujets:
Environmental policy > United States > History.
Oil spills > California > Santa Barbara Channel > History.
Science and state > United States > History.
Environnement > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis > Histoire.
Déversements de pétrole > Californie > Santa Barbara, Détroit de > Histoire.
Politique scientifique et technique > États-Unis > Histoire.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Real Estate > General.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
Environmental policy
Oil spills
Science and state
Pacific Ocean > Santa Barbara Channel
United States
History
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Preface : "Wasn't that a mighty storm" : the Santa Barbara oil spill of 1969
  • Introduction : the Santa Barbara oil spill of 1969
  • Part 1. Pre-1969 Environmental and Science policy
  • 1. Coastal waters and oil drilling
  • 2. Smell, taste, sight, disease : pollution detection until the mid-1960s
  • 3. Federal environmental policy?
  • 4. Who is in charge of water pollution control?
  • Part 2. The Spill
  • 5. The Santa Barbara spill : the first ten days
  • Part 3. Post-spill Environmental and Science policy
  • 6. From an "amorphous concern" to a national movement
  • 7. Conflict over a Pismo clam : changes in pollution detection
  • 8. Edmund Muskie : the clean water champion.

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