Slick Policy: Environmental and Science Policy in the Aftermath of the Santa Barbara Oil Spill (History of the Urban Environment) - Softcover

Buch 20 von 31: Pittsburgh Hist Urban Environ

Spezio, Teresa Sabol

 
9780822965329: Slick Policy: Environmental and Science Policy in the Aftermath of the Santa Barbara Oil Spill (History of the Urban Environment)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0822965321 ISBN 13: 9780822965329
Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Teresa Sabol Spezio is a visiting assistant professor in environmental analysis at Pitzer College in Claremont, CA. She is a licensed professional engineer who has worked in the environmental field.

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Verlag
University of Pittsburgh Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0822965321
ISBN 13 
9780822965329
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
248
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