Environmental Overkill: Whatever Happened to Common Sense

Ray, Dixy Lee, and Guzzo, Louis R.

ISBN 10: 0895265125 / ISBN 13: 9780895265128

Published by Regnery Gateway, Washington, DC, 1993

About this Item

24 cm, 260, large tear at rear DJ, DJ edges worn. Inscribed by the author. The author argues that good stewardship of the environment, scientific honesty, and even our constitutional liberties based on property rights are being consciously endangered by environmental extremists. The author was formerly the chairperson of the Atomic Energy Commission.

Seller Inventory # 22096

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Environmental Overkill: Whatever Happened to Common Sense
• Publisher: Regnery Gateway, Washington, DC
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0895265125
• ISBN 13: 9780895265128
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: Third Printing.
• Condition: very good, fair
• Seller catalogs:
  • Federal Regulations
  • Environment

About this title

Synopsis

A balanced examination of the environmental crisis attempts to wade through the media hype and provide the public with the actual data surrounding such issues as air pollution, global warming, endangered species, acid rain, and ozone depletion.

About the Author

Dixy Lee Ray (1914-1994) was a marine biologist. In 1973 she was appointed by Richard Nixon to chair the US Atomic Energy Commission, and was the first and only woman to do so. She was elected governor of Washington in 1976.