Tainted Earth : : Smelters, Public Health, and the Environment / / Marianne Sullivan.
Smelting is an industrial process involving the extraction of metal from ore. During this process, impurities in ore—including arsenic, lead, and cadmium—may be released from smoke stacks, contaminating air, water, and soil with toxic-heavy metals. The problem of public health harm from smelter emis...
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Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2014] ©2014 |
Year of Publication: | 2014 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) :; 5 photographs, 4 maps |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. The Tacoma Smelter
- 2. City of Destiny, City of Smoke
- 3. Uncovering a Crisis in El Paso
- 4. Bunker Hill
- 5. Tacoma: A Disaster Is Discovered
- 6. A Carcinogenic Threat
- 7. Sacrificed
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Index
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR