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...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Langue: | anglais |
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Pittsburgh, Pa. :
University of Pittsburgh Press
[2018]
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| Collection: | History of the urban environment.
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| Accès en ligne: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvqhv2d |
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.