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1) The appeal
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 19
Formats
Description
In a crowded courtroom in Mississippi, a jury returns a shocking verdict against a chemical company accused of dumping toxic waste into a small town's water supply, causing the worst cancer cluster un history. The company appeals to the Mississippi Supreme Court, whose nine justices will one day either approve the verdict or reverse it.
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Lisa convinces the locals to clean up the polluted Lake Springfield after a crowd of fans sink the Green Day concert stage. Meanwhile, Homer saves a pig from being killed in Krusty Burger and adopts it, calling the animal Spider Pig. After two days, Spider Pig fills up a silo with its excrement and not knowing what else to do, Homer dumps the silo in the lake, polluting it. The angry population forces the Simpsons to move to Alaska. Meanwhile, the...
3) Sick puppy
Author
Series
Skink novels (Carl Hiaasen) volume 4
Pub. Date
[2000]
Description
An eco-terrorist in Florida strikes at a polluter by kidnaping his wife. In the process, Twilly Spree discovers a conspiracy by state politicians to turn a wildlife sanctuary into a golf course. He also discovers that the polluter's wife fancies him. A comedy by the author of Kick Ass.
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 21
Description
In 1996, young Scott Dominquez of Soda Springs, Idaho went to his job at Evergreen Resources, an acid fertilizing production plant. By eleven o'clock that morning, he had been pulled from a poison-storage tank, barely alive and severely brain-damaged. An outraged EPA agent began a relentless battle to bring Evergreen's owner, Allan Elias, to justice..."
5) Toxic cops
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Discusses several threats to the environment, laws that have been enacted to protect it, and the branch of the Environmental Protection Agency and other local groups that enforce such laws.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"Two thirds of the world's oceans lie beyond national borders. Owned by all nations and no nation simultaneously, the high seas are home to some of the richest and most biodiverse environments on the planet. But they are also home to exploitation on a scale that few of us have imagined. Here, out of sight and out of mind, industry and economic progress rule and lax enforcement and apathy are the status quo, underscored by a battle to control, profit...
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