Fighting Toxics: A Manual for Protecting your Family, Community, and Workplace - Hardcover

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Fighting Toxics is a step-by-step guide illustrating how to investigate the toxic hazards that may exist in your community, how to determine the risks they pose to your health, and how to launch an effective campaign to eliminate them.

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Gary Cohen is former policy director of the National Toxics Campaign, chief administrator of the National Toxics Campaign and chief administrator of the National Toxics Campaign Fund. At the time Fighting Toxics was published, he had ten years of experience as a writer and researcher and had been involved with NTC for five years.

John O'Connor became involved in community health and safety issues because he grew up behind the Raybestos Company, which made asbestos brake liners and emitted asbestos into his community. John watched as many friends and members of his community died due to their exposure to asbestos. He has a light dusting of asbestos in his lungs himself. In the 1970s, he led the fight with Massachusetts Fair Share for a state right-to-know law. In 1983, he helped to found the National Campaign Against Toxics Hazards (which grew into the National Toxics Campaign). He is formerly executive director of the National Toxics Campaign and has been one of the preeminent spokespersons for the nation's grassroots toxics movement.

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There are over 30,000 toxic waste sites in the United States confirmed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and there may be as many as ten times that number unconfirmed. This manual, compiled over eight years by the nonprofit National Toxics Campaign, is a comprehensive activist guide to toxic threats and cleanup. Going beyond the scope of the excellent Health Detective's Handbook , edited by Marvin S. Legato & others ( LJ 6/15/85; o.p.), this book is written with the idea of effecting long-term solutions and preventing problems. It strongly addresses attempts by U.S. industry, government, etc., to make acceptable the way environmental pollution is dealt with in the United States. Recommended for public libraries.
- Diane M. Brown, Univ. of California Lib., Berkeley
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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