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Slick Policy : Environmental and Science Policy in the Aftermath of the Santa Barbara Oil Spill /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2018
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| Colección: | History of the urban environment.
Book collections on Project MUSE. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.