David, Goliath and the Beach-Cleaning Machine: How a Small California Town Fought an Oil Giant-And Won! - Hardcover

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SUPERANNO Nestled between the Sierra Madre Mountains and the Pacific Ocean, the self-described funky little community of Avila Beach had an ominous neighbor lurking over, and under, the town and its sand, soil, homes, and businesses. The Unocal Oil Company, long the town's major employer, had been steadily, and knowingly, polluting the seemingly pristine beach community for decades and would have continued were it not for a fateful morning jog in which longtime resident and new attorney, Saro Rizzo, literally stumbled on evidence of Unocal's dastardly despoiling of the environment. What begins as a simple case of trying to correct what appears to be a small problem quickly snowballs into the discovery of an environmental nightmare to rival the Exxon Valdez. In a classic and, unfortunately by now, familiar tale of big-business greed versus small-town pride, Pulitzer Prize-nominee Wolcott presents a balanced exposé of one company's arrogant response to an ecological and economic disaster and what one town and one man accomplished in the face of overwhelming odds. (Carol Haggas. Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved)

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