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The horrifying true story of the decades-long poisoning of a small town and the definitive exposé of asbestos in America-told by the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists who broke it.
In a valley in Montana, the U.S. has spent millions of dollars removing toxic residue from a town that had lain pristine for ages. Until the last century, when the dust came down like a snowstorm. That dust turned a paradise into the worst of America's killing fields, a name at the top of the list that includes Love Canal and Woburn. A place now known to be deadlier than all the rest: Libby.
An Air That Kills is told through the eyes of the men and women who fought back-among them, a woman who watched more than forty members of her family succumb to asbestos; a miner who worked there and carried the poison home; and an EPA investigator who battled not only one of the world's most powerful corporations but also his superiors in Washington. It is the first book to reveal how deeply asbestos has embedded itself into the texture of America: how many people have died or are dying; how the industry and government repeatedly ignored the danger; and how, for many Americans, the dying is not over. It is a suspense story with real American heroes at its heart and one of the most importants works of environmental journalism in years.
Awakening
Posted February 15, 2009
I highly recommend this book. Honestly I found it being sold in a dingy, old bargain discount book store, but was interested because I had just visited my friend in Montana. She is a fifth generation Montanan and we had driven past large mines throughout the state. I instantly became engulfed in the book and the individual¿s struggle for their lives and legislative justice. We see all the commercials on t.v. for patients suffering from Mesothelioma and how to contact a law firm. I now understand why. Companies were allowed for over 50 years to knowingly kill their employees from asbestos poisoning. They are allowed to sell asbestos as a product in the U.S. and infect consumers as well. Asbestos is still being mined and sold today. It will kill people for many years to come. Read this book and also educate yourself on House of Rep bill 6903 that is trying to outlaw asbestos as of Oct 2008. There is still time to support it and save lives.
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The horrifying true story of the decades-long poisoning of a small town and the definitive exposé of asbestos in America-told by the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists who broke it.
In a valley in Montana, the U.S. has spent millions of dollars removing toxic residue from a town that had lain pristine for ages. Until the last century, when the dust came down like a snowstorm. That dust turned a paradise into the worst of America's killing fields, a name at the top of the list ...