Notes 307https://www.nytimes.com/ 0 7 / 03 / 9 /us/politics/epa-insecticide-chlor
pyrifos.html.
6. vested interests will once again triumph: Dan Flynn, “ 9 th Circuit
Orders EPA to Stop ‘Stalling’ and Ban Ag Use of Popular Pesticide,” Food
Safety News, August 0 , 0 8 , https://www.foodsafetynews.com/ 0 8 / 08 / 9 th
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7. long-term effects remain unknown: CDC, “Dichlorodiphenyltrich-
loroethane (DDT) Factsheet,” last modified April 7 , 0 7 , https://www.cdc.gov
/biomonitoring/pdf/ddt_factsheet.pdf.
8. Amazon rain forest: Jerry Shields, The Invisible Billionaire: Daniel
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9. paid three million dollars: Ibid., 9 .
60. plant trees like rows of corn: Ibid., 87.
6 . plastic in soil: Sileshi Nugusu et al., “Studies on Foreign Body Inges-
tion and their Related Complications in Ruminants Associated with In-
appropriate Solid Waste Disposal in Gondar Town, North West Ethiopia,”
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6 . How carbon dioxide can retain heat: Naomi Oreskes and Erik Con-
w a y, Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on
Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming (New York: Bloomsbury Press,
0 0 ), chap. 6.
63. humans are most responsible: William Anderegg et al., “Expert Credi-
bility in Climate Change,” PNAS 07 , no. 7 ( July 0 0 ): 07 – 9 , https://doi.org
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64. This is the site: EPA, “Learn about Dioxin,” accessed March 9 , 0 8 ,
https://www.epa.gov/dioxin/learn-about-dioxin.
6 . The contamination extended: EPA, “Tittabawassee River, Saginaw
River & Bay, Midland, MI, Cleanup Activities,” accessed March 9 , 0 8 , https:
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66. physiologically tolerable limits: Bryson, A Short History, 46.
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. deadliest Atlantic hurricane: Neal Lott et al., “Hurricane Mitch: The
Deadliest Atlantic Hurricane since 780 ,” National Climatic Data Center, Na-
tional Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, accessed March 0 , 0 8 ,