Tainted earth: Smelters, public health, and the environment (2014)
Marianne Sullivan (Author)
Rutgers University Press
Physical Details: 238
Language: English
Smelting is an industrial process involving the extraction of metal from ore. During this process, impurities in ore—including arsenic, lead, and cadmium—may be released from smoke stacks, contaminating air, water, and soil with toxic-heavy metals. Thoroughly grounded in extensive archival research, Tainted Earth traces the rise of public health concerns about nonferrous smelting in the western United States, focusing on three major facilities: Tacoma, Washington; El Paso, Texas; and Bunker Hill, Idaho. Marianne Sullivan documents the response from community residents, public health scientists, the industry, and the government to pollution from smelters as well as the long road to protecting public health and the environment. Placing the environmental and public health aspects of smelting in historical context, the book connects local incidents to national stories on the regulation of airborne toxic metals.
...MoreReview John Baeten (2013) Review of "Tainted earth: Smelters, public health, and the environment". IA. The Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology (pp. 118-119).
Similar Citations
Book
Duffin, Andrew P.;
(2007)
Plowed Under: Agriculture and Environment in the Palouse
(/isis/citation/CBB000950152/)
Book
Melosi, Martin V.;
Pratt, Joseph A.;
(2007)
Energy Metropolis: An Environmental History of Houston and the Gulf Coast
(/isis/citation/CBB000930110/)
Book
Schneider, Daniel;
(2011)
Hybrid Nature: Sewage Treatment and the Contradictions of the Industrial Ecosystem
(/isis/citation/CBB001221124/)
Article
John B. Stranges;
Matthew M. Troia;
Claudette E. Walck;
(2017)
Limited Victory: Love Canal Reclaimed
(/isis/citation/CBB623185406/)
Book
Ernst Homburg;
Elisabeth Vaupel;
(2019)
Hazardous Chemicals: Agents of Risk and Change, 1800-2000
(/isis/citation/CBB746037618/)
Book
Bradley D. Snow;
(2017)
Living with Lead: An Environmental History of Idaho's Coeur D'Alenes, 1885-2011
(/isis/citation/CBB918352393/)
Thesis
Duffin, Andrew Philip;
(2003)
Fill the Earth and Subdue It: The Environmental Consequences of Intensive Agriculture in the Palouse
(/isis/citation/CBB001562032/)
Thesis
Janzen, Mark Ryan;
(2010)
The Cranberry Scare of 1959: The Beginning of the End of the Delaney Clause
(/isis/citation/CBB001567202/)
Book
Andy Bruno;
(2016)
The Nature of Soviet Power: An Arctic Environmental History
(/isis/citation/CBB001811907/)
Book
Mckiernan-González, John Raymond;
(2012)
Fevered Measures: Public Health and Race at the Texas-Mexico Border, 1848--1942
(/isis/citation/CBB001212560/)
Article
Mitman, Gregg;
Murphy, Michelle;
Sellers, Christopher;
(2004)
Introduction: A Cloud over History
(/isis/citation/CBB000750317/)
Book
Miller, Char;
(2013)
On the Edge: Water, Immigration, and Politics in the Southwest
(/isis/citation/CBB001422402/)
Article
Sabine Loewe-Hannatzsch;
(2020)
Umweltpolitik im Uranerzbergbau der SAG/SDAG Wismut in der DDR (Environmental policy in uranium ore mining at SAG/SDAG Wismut in the GDR)
(/isis/citation/CBB578875804/)
Book
David Bond;
(2022)
Negative Ecologies: Fossil Fuels and the Discovery of the Environment
(/isis/citation/CBB856832723/)
Article
Mårald, Erland;
Nordlund, Christer;
(2005)
Inledning: Tema Teknik och Miljö
(/isis/citation/CBB000772802/)
Thesis
Rachel Emma Rothschild;
(2015)
A Poisonous Sky: Scientific Research and International Diplomacy on Acid Rain
(/isis/citation/CBB367307908/)
Thesis
Seltz, Jennifer;
(2005)
Embodying Nature: Health, Place, and Identity in Nineteenth-Century America
(/isis/citation/CBB001560909/)
Article
Alex Souchen;
(October 2021)
An Exceptional Mortality: Dumped Munitions, Inconclusive Science, and the Mass Death of Oysters in the Thames Estuary after the First World War
(/isis/citation/CBB562504251/)
Book
Arthur Firstenberg;
(2020)
The Invisible Rainbow: A History of Electricity and Life
(/isis/citation/CBB478751200/)
Article
Iris Borowy;
(July 2021)
Making Sense of the History of Toxicity: How Poisonous Pasts May Have Touched Me and Everybody Else
(/isis/citation/CBB936944718/)
Be the first to comment!