Fighting Toxics: A Manual for Protecting Your Family Community and Workplace - Brossura

Cohen, Gary

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1559630124 ISBN 13: 9781559630122

Casa editrice: Island Pr, 1990

Riassunto

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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L'autore:

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 timeFighting 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.

Product Description:

Book by National Toxics Campaign

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Island Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1990
• ISBN 10: 1559630124
• ISBN 13: 9781559630122
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 346