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Author : Robert Easton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Black Tide: the Santa Barbara Oil Spill and Its Consequences written by Robert Easton and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Olney Easton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Black tide: the Santa Barbara oil spill and its consequences written by Robert Olney Easton and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : University of California, Santa Barbara
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Santa Barbara Oil Pollution, 1969 written by University of California, Santa Barbara and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Teresa Sabol Spezio
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781267239693
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (396 download)
Download or read book Rising Tide written by Teresa Sabol Spezio and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. environmental movement expanded in the late 1960s and early 1970s with the passage of landmark laws such as the National Environmental Policy Act and the creation of Earth Day. Environmental historians point to Earth Day and to a lesser extent to the Santa Barbara Oil Spill of 1969 as important events in the growth of the movement, but the specific effects of the spill are not well understood. The dissertation explores how the consequences of the spill contributed to rapid shifts in federal environmental policy in both the legislative and executive branches. Moreover, the dissertation examines how the spill shaped oil industry policy and new environmental technologies and shows that in the wake of environmental catastrophe, changes occurred in environmental policy and regulation that continue to make themselves felt today. The transformations took place in three specific elements of the environmental movement. First, a swift and powerful reaction by three pivotal Democratic Senators combined with the slow response of the newly inaugurated Nixon Administration, allowed the federal government to take the lead over state governments in the development of environmental policy. Strong federal leadership and advocacy of federalist views promoted the passage of NEPA, the Clean Water Act amendments, and the creation of Earth Day. Second, as oil from the spill continued to coat the beaches, water fowl and marine mammals in Santa Barbara County, the American public clearly saw the oil industry's inability to develop and implement methods to contain and remove the oil. Wanting to protect itself from further negative exposure, the oil industry experienced its own form of greening, with a new emphasis on spill prevention. Third, the rise of technologies to test for the presence of environmental contaminants, such as gas chromatography, coincided with the spill and led to scientific clashes over definitions of contamination. Incommensurable views of contamination emerged from the methodological commitments of the sciences themselves, particularly within biology and environmental chemistry. Once the scientific debates became public, the resurgent environmental movement contributed to these clashes, even shaping the direction of the science itself.
Author : Teresa Sabol Spezio
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822983362
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)
Download or read book Slick Policy written by Teresa Sabol Spezio and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2018-05-11 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In January 1969, the blowout on an offshore oil platform off the coast of Santa Barbara, California, and the resulting oil spill proved to be a transformative event in pollution control and the nascent environmental activism movement. It accelerated the advancement of federal government policies and would change the way the federal government managed environmental pollution. Over the next three years, Congress worked to pass laws such as the National Environmental Policy Act and the Clean Water Act, and revolutionized the way that the United States dealt with environmental pollution. At the same time, scientists developed methods to detect chemical pollution that had been discharged into rivers and streams by industrial facilities. Slick Policy presents an original and in-depth history of the 1969 Santa Barbara spill. Teresa Sabol Spezio provides a background of water pollution control, government oversight of federally-funded projects, and chemical detection methods in place prior to the spill. She then shows how scientists and politicians used public outrage over the spill to implement wide-ranging changes to federal environmental and science policy, and demonstrates the advancements to offshore oil drilling, pollution technology, and water protection law that resulted from these actions.
Author : Antonia Juhasz
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1118067746
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Black Tide written by Antonia Juhasz and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2011-03-16 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A searing look at the human face of BP's disaster in the gulf It is the largest oil disaster in American history, and it could happen again. It is more than a story of ruined beaches, dead wildlife, corporate spin, political machinations, and financial fallout. It is a riveting human drama filled with people whose lives will forever be defined as "before" and "after the gulf oil disaster." Black Tide is the only book to tell this story through the perspective of people on all sides of the catastrophe, from those who lost their lives, loved ones, and livelihoods to those who made the policies that set the devastating event in motion, those who cut the corners that put corporate profits over people and the environment, and those who have committed their lives to ensuring that such an event is never repeated. Dramatic and compelling, Black Tide exposes the human failings and human cost of the largest oil disaster in American history and how it could easily happen again. "We cannot allow the BP disaster to be pushed from public view the way BP used chemical dispersants to hide the oil. These remarkable stories-of loss, heroism and culpability-are a vivid reminder that this catastrophe will be with us for decades, and that we have not yet made the changes necessary to prevent destruction in the future." -Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. "It's hard to imagine a better person to turn loose on this epochal disaster than Antonia Juhasz, with her compassionate heart, vivid prose, and rich expertise in both oil and economic policy. From oil-smeared beaches, to the drilling rig's control room, to the big picture of Big Oil and the governments they push around. It's not just about disaster: it's a series of encounters with real people, from oceanographers to oyster-shuckers, striving to make things right. Black Tide is riveting, infuriating, and incredibly important. -Rebecca Solnit, author of A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster Praise for The Tyranny of Oil "Reminds us that those who don't learn the lessons of history are fated to repeat its mistakes." -USA Today "[A] timely, blistering critique . . . white-hot" -Kirkus starred review "[A] thorough, readable takedown of Big Oil." -Publishers Weekly "Abrave, groundbreaking case study. . . . A good first step toward true energy independence is to read this insightful book." -The Christian Science Monitor
Author : University of California, Santa Barbara
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 49 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Santa Barbara Oil Pollution, 1969 written by University of California, Santa Barbara and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : A. E. Keir Nash
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Oil Pollution and the Public Interest written by A. E. Keir Nash and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Oil Spill Information Center
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Oil Pollution in the Santa Barbara Channel written by University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Oil Spill Information Center and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carol E. Steinhart
Publisher : Brooks/Cole
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Blowout written by Carol E. Steinhart and published by Brooks/Cole. This book was released on 1972 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Publisher : BiblioGov
ISBN 13 : 9781295116065
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Santa Barbara Oil Pollution 1969 written by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was introduced on December 2, 1970 by President Richard Nixon. The agency is charged with protecting human health and the environment, by writing and enforcing regulations based on laws passed by Congress. The EPA's struggle to protect health and the environment is seen through each of its official publications. These publications outline new policies, detail problems with enforcing laws, document the need for new legislation, and describe new tactics to use to solve these issues. This collection of publications ranges from historic documents to reports released in the new millennium, and features works like: Bicycle for a Better Environment, Health Effects of Increasing Sulfur Oxides Emissions Draft, and Women and Environmental Health.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Minerals, Materials, and Fuels
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Santa Barbara Oil Spill written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Minerals, Materials, and Fuels and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers S. 1219, to investigate the oil spill by Union Oil Company off the coast of Santa Barbara, Calif., and to terminate or suspend certain Federal oil leases off the coast of California.
Author : University of California, Santa Barbara
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 49 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (787 download)
Download or read book Santa Barbara Oil Pollution, 1969 written by University of California, Santa Barbara and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Nelson
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
ISBN 13 : 1606998889
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (69 download)
Download or read book It's All One Case written by Paul Nelson and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a prose series of unpublished interviews with, and a visual retrospective of, the seminal mid- to late-20th century literary crime writer. In 1976, critic Paul Nelson spent several weeks interviewing legendary detective writer Ross Macdonald, who elevated the form to a new literary level. “We talked about everything imaginable,” Nelson wrote―including Macdonald’s often meager beginnings; his dual citizenship; writers, painters, music, and movies he admired; The Great Gatsby, his favorite book; how he used symbolism to change detective writing; and more. This book, published in a handsome, oversized format, collects these unpublished interviews and is a visual history of Macdonald’s professional career. It is illustrated with rare and select items from one of the world’s largest private archives of Macdonald ephemera; reproduces, in full color, the covers of the various editions of Macdonald’s more than two dozen books; collects facsimile reproductions of select pages from his manuscripts, as well as magazine spreads; and presents rare photos, many never before seen.
Author : Daniel Stone
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593329376
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (933 download)
Download or read book Sinkable written by Daniel Stone and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the national bestselling author of The Food Explorer, a fascinating and rollicking plunge into the story of the world’s most famous shipwreck, the RMS Titanic On a frigid April night in 1912, the world’s largest—and soon most famous—ocean liner struck an iceberg and slipped beneath the waves. She had scarcely disappeared before her new journey began, a seemingly limitless odyssey through the world’s fixation with her every tragic detail. Plans to find and raise the Titanic began almost immediately. Yet seven decades passed before it was found. Why? And of some three million shipwrecks that litter the ocean floor, why is the world still so fascinated with this one? In Sinkable, Daniel Stone spins a fascinating tale of history, science, and obsession, uncovering the untold story of the Titanic not as a ship but as a shipwreck. He explores generations of eccentrics, like American Charles Smith, whose 1914 recovery plan using a synchronized armada of ships bearing electromagnets was complex, convincing, and utterly impossible; Jack Grimm, a Texas oil magnate who fruitlessly dropped a fortune to find the wreck after failing to find Noah’s Ark; and the British Doug Woolley, a former pantyhose factory worker who has claimed, since the 1960s, to be the true owner of the Titanic wreckage. Along the way, Sinkable takes readers through the two miles of ocean water in which the Titanic sank, showing how the ship broke apart and why, and delves into the odd history of our understanding of such depths. Author Daniel Stone studies the landscape of the seabed, which in the Titanic’s day was thought to be as smooth and featureless as a bathtub. He interviews scientists to understand the decades of rust and decomposition that are slowly but surely consuming the ship. (It is expected to disappear entirely within a few decades!) He even journeys over the Atlantic, during a global pandemic, to track down the elusive Doug Woolley. And Stone turns inward, looking at his own dark obsession with both the Titanic and shipwrecks in general, and why he spends hours watching ships sink on YouTube. Brimming with humor, curiosity and wit, Sinkable follows in the tradition of Susan Orlean and Bill Bryson, offering up a page-turning work of personal journalism and an immensely entertaining romp through the deep sea and the nature of obsession.
Author : Jerry A. McBeath
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1440837430
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (48 download)
Download or read book Big Oil in the United States written by Jerry A. McBeath and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-06-27 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains how and why large oil-producing corporations have affected government institutions, energy policy, and politics in the United States—and suggests how their influence can be reduced. Big oil is the leading factor in U.S. energy politics today; the largest oil-producing companies also constitute a formidable force and interest group in American politics. This book examines why oil is so important and how the prominence of huge corporations—often working in the absence of countervailing forces—has affected government institutions, policy (with a focus on energy policy), and politics in the United States. Analyzing big oil's influence on political outcomes, particularly through campaign contributions and lobbying, this book shows how strong corporate power affects political participation. The book documents how the influence of big oil flows in all directions, intricately connecting U.S. policies at all levels—foreign policy, federal, state, and even local—regarding oil exploration, development, production, and transportation. Readers will come away with a clear understanding of how these multi-tiered relationships between oil corporations and governments work to the advantage of corporations—and to the disadvantage of states and the citizens they represent.
