Smoke on the Water : : Incineration at Sea and the Birth of a Transatlantic Environmental Movement / / Dario Fazzi.
The U.S. government, military, and industry once saw ocean incineration as the safest and most efficient way to dispose of hazardous chemical waste. Beginning in the late 1960s, toxic chemicals such as PCBs and other harmful industrial byproducts were taken out to sea to be destroyed in specially de...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2023] ©2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Global America
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Introduction
- 1 The Disposable Frontier
- 2 The Military- Chemical- Industrial Complex
- 3 Translocal Activism
- 4 Relentless Commitment
- 5 Ban the Burn
- 6 Quitting Smoking
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index