The Polluters: A Community Fights Back {FIRST EDITION}

Varlamoff, Susan Jezsik

ISBN 10: 0938577077 / ISBN 13: 9780938577072

Published by St. John's Publishing, Inc., Edina, Minnesota, 1993

About this Item

"Through this book, you'll experience the human drama of ordinary people fighting to shut down a leaking, toxic dump threatening their Midwestern neighborhood. You'll follow them into their living rooms for secret strategy sessions, go before regulatory agencies, hike through hallowed halls of our state capital, wait behind closed door sessions in court, then move on to the highest levels of government in Washington, D.C. You'll feel their rage, their pain, their defeat, and their triumphs as the battle the Minnesota state government and the world's second largest garbage company." This book has 200 pages and is illustrated. The book is a SIGNED PRESENTATION copy from the author, Susan Jezsik Varlamoff. The text contains NO internal marks whatsoever.

Seller Inventory # 050677

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Polluters: A Community Fights Back {FIRST EDITION}
• Publisher: St. John's Publishing, Inc., Edina, Minnesota
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0938577077
• ISBN 13: 9780938577072
• Binding: Pictorial Softcover
• Edition: First Edition {First Printing}
• Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author
• Seller catalogs:
  • Earth and Agriculture
  • Minnesota
  • Animals
  • Law
  • Gardening

About this title

Synopsis

Recounts the experience of Varlamoff and her community in stopping the expansion of a local landfill, offering insight into how citizens can confront this type of environmental issue

About the Author

Susan Jezsik Varlamoff was born in Brooklyn, New York and raised in Cresskill, New Jersey. She holds a B.A. in Biology, and Masters degree in Environmental Pollution Control from Penn State University. After several years as a research assistant in Oceanography at Columbia University, she married Ivan Varlamoff. The Varlamoff family eventually settled in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, where the expansion of a toxic landfill threatened their community.