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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主要作者: Spezio, Teresa Sabol (Author)
格式: Licensed eBooks
語言:英语
出版: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press [2018]
叢編:History of the urban environment.
在線閱讀:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvqhv2d
書本目錄:
  • 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.