Find Request It
Cover Image

They poisoned the world life and death in the age of forever chemicals

A landmark investigation of the chemical industry's decades-long campaign to hide the devastating effects of "forever chemicals," told through the story of a small town on the frontline of an epic public health crisis.

Saved in:
Main Author: Blake, Mariah (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Crown, [2025]
Edition:[Hardcover edition].
Subjects:
Environmental health > New York (State) > Hoosick Falls > Case studies.
Chemical industry > Environmental aspects > New York (State) > Hoosick Falls > Case studies.
Perfluorinated chemicals > Health aspects > New York (State) > Hoosick Falls > Case studies.
Water > Pollution > Toxicology > New York (State) > Hoosick Falls > Case studies.
Contamination (Technology) > New York (State) > Hoosick Falls > Case studies.
Case studies.
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Table of Contents:
  • A bump in the road
  • Teflon Town
  • Lucifer's gas
  • Exile to Devil's Island
  • Catch-22
  • Biological dynamite
  • Blood secrets
  • The Tipping Point
  • Welcome to beautiful Parkersburg, West Virginia
  • A rock in the machine
  • "They poisoned the world"
  • The reckoning
  • Cloud nine
  • Dirty water, Dirty deal
  • Accidental activists
  • What-ifs and worst-case scenarios
  • Wall of resistance
  • Victory
  • To the ends of the world.

Similar Items