Sacrifice Zones: The Front Lines of Toxic Chemical Exposure in the United States

by Steve Lerner

Book Overview

"I just got mad. I couldn't breathe in my own house." -Ruth Reed, a resident of Ocala, Florida, who lives next door to a Royal Oak Charcoal factory Across the United States, thousands of people, most of them in low-income or minority communities, live next to heavily polluting industrial sites. Many of them, like Ruth Reed, reach a point at which they say "Enough is enough." After living for years with poisoned air and water, contaminated soil, and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262014408
• ISBN13: 9780262014403
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 346 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher