Download or read book Toxic Nation written by Fred Setterberg and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes personal accounts of ordinary people fighting the frightening spread of toxic contamination. Each year, 22 billion pds. of toxic chemicals are spewed into our air, water, and soil. The book describes the devastating effects of these chemicals on the lives of people in dozens of communities across America. People who have managed to fight back, by any means they can, to save their families and their communities. Deals with how our nation contends with its most fundamental problems. It is about the people who have faced the health effects of haz. wastes head-on, and the democratic uprising engendered by that confrontation. Illustrated.