Sacrifice Zones: The Front Lines of Toxic Chemical Exposure in the United States

by Steve Lerner

Book Overview

The stories of residents of low-income communities across the country who took action when pollution from heavy industry contaminated their towns.

Across the United States, thousands of people, most of them in low-income or minority communities, live next to heavily polluting industrial sites. Many of them reach a point at which they say "Enough is enough." After living for years with poisoned air and water, contaminated soil, and pollution-related...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262518171
• ISBN13: 9780262518178
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher