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Rachel Carson’s Environmental Health Legacy
Rachel Carson’s 1962 book, Silent Spring, launched the environmental movement. As the EPA observes in its history, “Silent Spring played in the history of environmentalism roughly the same role that Uncle Tom’s Cabin played in the abolitionist movement. In fact, … Continue reading
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