Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface : “Wasn’t That a Mighty Storm”: The Santa Barbara Oil Spill of 1969
Introduction: The Santa Barbara Oil Spill of 1969
Part 1: Pre-1969 Environmental and Science Policy
1. Coastal Waters and Oil Drilling
2. Smell, Taste, Sight, Disease: Pollution Detection until the Mid-1960S
3. Federal Environmental Policy?
4. Who is in Charge of Water Pollution Control?
Part 2: The Spill
5. The Santa Barbara Spill: The First Ten Days
Part 3: Post-Spill Environmental and Science Policy
6. From an “Amorphous Concern” to a National Movement
7. Conflict Over a Pismo Clam: Changes in Pollution Detection
8. Edmund Muskie: The Clean Water Champion
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index