CHAPTER 1 The Sorcerer's Apprentices ........................... i
PART I Summoning the Spirits
CHAPTER 2 Pollution Goes to Washington ......................... 9
CHAPTER 3 The Rise of the Chemical Industry ................... 17
CHAPTER 4 Royd Sayers' Service Bureau ......................... 28
PART II Fetching a Flood
CHAPTER 5 The Miracle Bug-Killer .............................. 45
CHAPTER 6 Wilhelm Hueper and Environmental Cancer ............. 59
CHAPTER 7 Bad Air in Los Angeles .............................. 73
CHAPTER 8 Donora's Strangler Smog ............................. 86
CHAPTER 9 A New Deal for Clean Water .......................... 98
CHAPTER 10 Deregulating California's Water .................... 107
CHAPTER 11 The Stealth Pollutants ............................. 118
PART III Holding Back the Deluge
CHAPTER 12 DuPont Tries to Clean Up ........................... 129
CHAPTER 13 The Industry Responds .............................. 141
CHAPTER 14 From Donora to Love Canal .......................... 151
CHAPTER 15 Epilogue: Convenient Hopes and Inconvenient
Truths ............................................. 167
Key to Archival Citations ..................................... 173
List of Abbreviations ......................................... 175
Notes ......................................................... 177
Index ......................................................... 215
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