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Dioxins are highly toxic chemical byproducts of pesticide manufacturing, incineration, and chlorine-based paper milling. Manufacturers, such as the paper industry, recently requested the Environmental Protection Agency to reexamine dioxin data from 1986 in which federal regulations limited dioxin exposure and emissions. As a result, the EPA's Dioxin Reassessment, released in early 1995, verified 1986 data that dioxins are not only carcinogenic but may also cause serious adverse effects on the immune and reproductive systems of humans and wildlife. Within this framework, grass-roots activist Gibbs and the group she cofounded after Love Canal, Citizens Clearinghouse for Hazardous Wastes (CCHW), have compiled this seminal citizen's how-to manual on dioxins and their chemical cousins. The history, politics, exposure pathways, toxicology, and chemistry of dioxin are covered in an easy-to-understand and powerful style. True to CCHW's commitment to environmental justice principles and community empowerment, organizing strategies like a "Dioxin Resolution" are among the aids citizen-activists may use in communicating concern to regulators and industry on dioxin-related issues. Highly recommended for special, public, and academic libraries and to those involved in public policy, citizen activism, and environmental health.
Susan Maret, Univ. of Colorado, Denver
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Susan Maret, Univ. of Colorado, Denver
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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"A masterful, comprehensive, easy-to-understand account of the chemistry, biology, ecology and politics of dioxin." - Barry Commoner, Director, Center for Biology of Natural Systems "Now everyone has an opportunity to learn about dioxin and the issues surrounding it, in this well-presented, multifaceted book."-Theo Colborn, Senior program Scientist, World Wildlife Fund "this book is a blueprint that every ordinary community activist can understand, which will motivate and inspire to keep up the fight." - Dollie B. Burwell, Warren County Concerned Citizens Against PVB and Dioxin "If you get all the way through tis book and you're not mad, sacred,and ready to organize, you should read it again." - Alonzo Spencer, Save Our County -- Publisher Comments
Widespread exposure to dioxin is destroying American health: Gibbs and grassroots scientists describe its presence in the environment, explaining how food products grown or produced near places where dioxin is released can become contaminated and lead to cancer. Chemical companies have hidden the facts, this title maintains as it brings dioxin's dangers to light. -- Midwest Book Review
Widespread exposure to dioxin is destroying American health: Gibbs and grassroots scientists describe its presence in the environment, explaining how food products grown or produced near places where dioxin is released can become contaminated and lead to cancer. Chemical companies have hidden the facts, this title maintains as it brings dioxin's dangers to light. -- Midwest Book Review
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In 1978, my neighbors and I discovered that our neighborhood in Love Canal, New York, had been built next to 21,800 tons of buried toxic chemicals. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
dioxin exposure campaign, chloro dibenzo furan, dioxin fallout, making dioxin, iron sintering plants, dioxin sources, dioxin precursors, dioxin discharges, dioxin emissions, second reassessment, dioxin binds, much dioxin, percent confidence range, dioxin levels, airborne dioxin, more dioxin, dioxin formation, medical waste incinerators, dioxin releases, external review draft, chlorine industry, environmental hormones, chlorine use, health assessment document, herbicide exposure Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Agent Orange, New York, Love Canal, Ranch Hand, Times Beach, Dow Chemical, North Carolina, Air Force, Great Lakes, American Legion, Greenwood Street, New Bedford, Van Strum, Lake Apopka, Beverly Paigen Stephen Lester, Carver Terrace, East Liverpool, Grams of Toxic Equivalents, Great Britain, Hands Across the River, Science Advisory Board, American Paper Institute, Consent Order, Diamond Shamrock New!
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In 1978, my neighbors and I discovered that our neighborhood in Love Canal, New York, had been built next to 21,800 tons of buried toxic chemicals. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
dioxin exposure campaign, chloro dibenzo furan, dioxin fallout, making dioxin, iron sintering plants, dioxin sources, dioxin precursors, dioxin discharges, dioxin emissions, second reassessment, dioxin binds, much dioxin, percent confidence range, dioxin levels, airborne dioxin, more dioxin, dioxin formation, medical waste incinerators, dioxin releases, external review draft, chlorine industry, environmental hormones, chlorine use, health assessment document, herbicide exposure Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Agent Orange, New York, Love Canal, Ranch Hand, Times Beach, Dow Chemical, North Carolina, Air Force, Great Lakes, American Legion, Greenwood Street, New Bedford, Van Strum, Lake Apopka, Beverly Paigen Stephen Lester, Carver Terrace, East Liverpool, Grams of Toxic Equivalents, Great Britain, Hands Across the River, Science Advisory Board, American Paper Institute, Consent Order, Diamond Shamrock New!
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- Dioxins and Health by Arnold Schecter on 4 pages
- Love Canal: The Story Continues... by Lois Marie Gibbs on 4 pages
- Organizing For Social Change by Kim Bobo on page 204, and Back Matter
- Environmental Science by William P. Cunningham in Back Matter
- Environmental Protection Agency (Know Your Government) by Kevin Law in Back Matter
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- The New Citizenship: Unconventional Politics, Activism, and Service by Craig A. Rimmerman on page 79, and page 95
- Endometriosis : The Complete Reference for Taking Charge of Your Health by Mary Lou Ballweg on page 221, and Back Matter
- Life's Delicate Balance: Causes and Prevention of Breast Cancer by Janette Sherman on page 246
- Contaminated Communities: Coping With Residential Toxic Exposure, Second Edition by Michael Edelstein in Back Matter
- Confronting Environmental Racism: Voices From the Grassroots by Robert D. Bullard in Back Matter
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