Hydrocarbon Hucksters: Lessons from Louisiana on Oil, Politics, and Environmental Justice

by Mariah Zebrowski Leach and Ernest Zebrowski Jr.

Hydrocarbon Hucksters is the saga of the oil industry's takeover of Louisiana--its leaders, its laws, its environment, and, by rechanneling the flow of public information, its voters. It is a chronicle of mindboggling scientific and technical triumphs sharing the same public stew with myths about the "goodness" of oil and bald-faced public lies by politicians and the captains of industry. It is a story of money and power, greed and corruption, jingoism...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1617038997
• ISBN13: 9781617038990
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.2"