The Road to Love Canal: Managing Industrial Waste before EPA

by Craig E. Colten, Peter N. Skinner, Peter N Skinner, et al.

Book Overview

The toxic legacy of Love Canal vividly brought the crisis in industrial waste disposal to public awareness across the United States and led to the passage of the Superfund legislation in 1980. To discover why disasters like Love Canal have occurred and whether they could have been averted with knowledge available to waste managers of the time, this book examines industrial waste disposal before the formation of the Environmental Protection Agency...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292711832
• ISBN13: 9780292711839
• Release Date: February 1995
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 231 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"