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Borrowed Earth, Borrowed Time: Healing America's Chemical Wounds (1991)

A book by Glenn E. Schweitzer, EPA's first Director of the Office of Toxic Substances.

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Chapters

Details   1. Toxic Chemicals Move to Center Stage

Details   2. Controlling 3000 chemicals: One by One

Details   3. The Uncertainty of Risk but the Reality of Cost

Details   4. Explaining Risks to an Aroused Public

Details   5. Cleaning Up the Wastes of an Industrial Economy

Details   6. The States Begin to Take Charge

Details   7. The Greening of Industry

Details   8. Exceeding the Absorptive Limits of the Global Commons

Details   9. The Power and Limitations of Science and Technology

Details   10. Living with Toxic Risks

Details   Index
 


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