Toxic town [electronic resource] : IBM, pollution, and industrial risks / Peter C. Little.
Material type: TextSeries: UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: New York : New York University Press, [2013] 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm)ISBN:- 9780814764510
- 0814764517
- Computer industry -- Waste disposal -- Environmental aspects -- New York (State) -- Endicott
- Computer industry -- Environmental aspects -- New York (State) -- Endicott
- Hazardous waste site remediation -- New York (State) -- Endicott
- Hazardous waste sites -- New York (State) -- Endicott
- Endicott (N.Y.) -- Environmental conditions
- International Business Machines Corporation
- 363.738/49 23
- TD181.N72 E535 2013
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Down in Big Blue's toxic plume in upstate New York -- The new mitigation landscape -- From shoes to computers to vapor mitigation systems -- Living the tangle of risk, deindustrialization, and community transformation -- Post-mitigation skepticism and frustration -- Grassroots action and conflicted environmental justice -- Citizens, experts, and emerging vapor intrusion science and policy -- Accounting for the paradox of IBM's "smarter planet".
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