Slick Policy: Environmental and Science Policy in the Aftermath of the Santa Barbara Oil Spill PDF
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This content downloaded from 128.111.121.42 on Sat, 29 Sep 2018 19:14:41 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms SLICK POLICY This content downloaded from 128.111.121.42 on Sat, 29 Sep 2018 19:14:41 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms HISTORY OF THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT MARTIN V. MELOSI AND JOEL A. TARR, EDITORS This content downloaded from 128.111.121.42 on Sat, 29 Sep 2018 19:14:41 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms S L I C K P O L I C Y Environmental and Science Policy in the Aftermath of the Santa Barbara Oil Spill TERESA SABOL SPEZIO University of Pittsburgh Press This content downloaded from 128.111.121.42 on Sat, 29 Sep 2018 19:14:41 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms Published by the University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, Pa., 15260 Copyright © 2018, University of Pittsburgh Press All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America Printed on acid-free paper 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Cataloging-in-Publication data is available from the Library of Congress ISBN 13: 978-0-8229-6532-9 ISBN 10: 0-8229-6532-1 Cover photo by Robert Sollen. Photo Courtesy of UCSB Library Collections. Cover design by Melissa Dias-Mandoly This content downloaded from 128.111.121.42 on Sat, 29 Sep 2018 19:14:41 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms For Michael the person who lights my way, shares my dreams, and makes me laugh This content downloaded from 128.111.121.42 on Sat, 29 Sep 2018 19:14:41 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms MAP 1. Santa Barbara County and Southern California. Map by MollyMaps. MAP 2. Oil platforms in the Outer Continental Shelf near Santa Barbara. Map by MollyMaps. This content downloaded from 128.111.121.42 on Sat, 29 Sep 2018 19:14:41 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms CCOONNTTEENNTTSS Acknowledgments ix Preface : “Wasn’t Th at a Mighty Storm”: Th e Santa Barbara Oil Spill of 1969 xv INTRODUCTION: THE SANTA BARBARA OIL SPILL OF 1969 1 PART 1: PRE-1969 ENVIRONMENTAL AND SCIENCE POLICY 1. COASTAL WATERS AND OIL DRILLING 21 2. SMELL, TASTE, SIGHT, DISEASE: POLLUTION DETECTION UNTIL THE MID-1960S 47 3. FEDERAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY? 68 4. WHO IS IN CHARGE OF WATER POLLUTION CONTROL? 90 A GALLERY OF IMAGES FOLLOWS PAGE 112 PART 2: THE SPILL 5. THE SANTA BARBARA SPILL: THE FIRST TEN DAYS 121 This content downloaded from 128.111.121.42 on Sat, 29 Sep 2018 19:15:27 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms VIII | CONTENTS PART 3: POST-SPILL ENVIRONMENTAL AND SCIENCE POLICY 6. FROM AN “AMORPHOUS CONCERN” TO A NATIONAL MOVEMENT 143 7. CONFLICT OVER A PISMO CLAM: CHANGES IN POLLUTION DETECTION 164 8. EDMUND MUSKIE: THE CLEAN WATER CHAMPION 189 Epilogue 205 Notes 211 Bibliography 257 Index 271 This content downloaded from 128.111.121.42 on Sat, 29 Sep 2018 19:15:27 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I BELIEVE THE IMPETUS for this book started before I can remember. My mother has two constant stories about me. Th e fi rst story has one line, “You were born an adult.” As the youngest of seven loud, boisterous, and opinionated children, I spent the fi rst few years of my life watching, listening, and making as much noise as my older siblings. So I have no doubt that this changed the way I interacted with the world when I was old enough to talk and reason. Th e second story revolves around water. I grew up in the city of Pittsburgh; not a place with droughts and water shortages. My mother says that when she would leave the water running while cleaning dishes and other things, I would constantly go behind her back to turn off the water. Th en I would scold her with the line, “You’re wasting water!” I was an environmentalist before I knew what that was. By the time I was in high school, I wanted to be a chemical engineer even though I did not know any chemical engineers or what a chemical engineer did. I just knew I liked chemistry and in my solidly lower-middle-class family, you went to college to learn a trade and get a job. Being a historian was not even in my fi eld of vision. Regardless, no one ever told me a girl could not be a chemical engineer. So I earned a This content downloaded from 128.111.121.42 on Sat, 29 Sep 2018 19:15:32 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms
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