Poison Spring: The Secret History of Pollution and the EPA - Softcover

Vallianatos, E.G.; Jenkins, McKay

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1608199266 ISBN 13: 9781608199266

Publisher: Bloomsbury Press, 2015

Synopsis

When you order a meal in a restaurant, you won't find malathion, kelthane or arsenic listed on the menu as an ingredient of your entrée, but these and scores of other pesticides and dangerous chemicals are in the food we eat. They are dumped into the environment where they seep into our water supply and float in the air we breathe. The use of these poisons is approved-or in some cases, simply ignored--by the Environmental Protection Agency.

Poison Spring documents, in devastating detail, the EPA's corruption and misuse of science and public trust. In its half-century of existence, the agency has repeatedly reinforced the chemical-industrial complex by endorsing deadly chemicals, botching field investigations, turning a blind eye to toxic disasters, and swallowing the self-serving claims of industry. E. G. Vallianatos, who saw the EPA from the inside for more than two decades with rising dismay, reveals in Poison Spring how the agency has allowed our lands and waters to be poisoned with more toxic chemicals than ever. No one who cares for the natural world, or for the health of future generations, can ignore this powerful exposé.

About this title

About the Authors

E.G. Vallianatos is the author of five books, including Harvest of Devastation and This Land is their Land, as well as over a hundred articles, including recent pieces in Alternet and Truth-Out.org. He worked in risk evaluation at the EPA for twenty-five years, and now lives in Claremont, California.

McKay Jenkins has been writing about humans and the natural world for just as long. His most recent book is What's Gotten Into Us: Staying Healthy in a Toxic World, was hailed as "a Silent Spring for the human body" (--Richard Preston, author of The Hot Zone). Jenkins is the Cornelius Tilghman Professor of English, Journalism and Environmental Humanities at the University of Delaware, where he has won the Excellence in Teaching Award.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Press
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1608199266
• ISBN 13: 9781608199266
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304