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When smoke ran like water
tales of environmental deception and the battle against pollution
By Davis, Devra Lee
- ISBN
- 978-0-46501-521-4
- Publisher
- New York : Basic Books, c2002.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on November 1, 2002
Epidemiologist Davis documents the struggle to force the auto, oil, coal, and chemical industries to come to terms with the environmental consequences of their unregulated release of toxic substances into our air and water-in particular high cancer rates, heart and lung diseases, infertility, brain damage, and death. She sets the stage by describing the perpetual health problems and deaths in her home town of Donora, PA, caused by toxins fro...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
