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In this compact, readable, and well-researched environmental history of Standard Oil operations in Cleveland and Whiting, Indiana, Wlasiuk shows that refineries and ecosystems mix no better than oil and water. This is an important book for anyone concerned with environmental justice - and injustice - in America."" - J.R. McNeill, Georgetown University

""This is no standard history of Standard Oil. Refining Nature takes us back to the origins of one of the world's most powerful monopolies and shows how the rise of Rockefeller's empire degraded local ecosystems in and around Cleveland and northwest Indiana. In the era of climate change, many scholars have focused on the global environmental effects of the petroleum industry, but Wlasiuk takes a different tack, offering fresh insights on the way Big Oil undermined the ecological health of a region that came to be known as Rust Belt, USA."" - Bart Elmore, The Ohio State University

Refining Nature Standard Oil and the limits of Efficiency History of the Urban Environment

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      Publisher University of Pittsburgh Press
      Published 11/30/2017 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9780822965206
      978-0822965206
      ISBN-10 0822965208
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      Trade Review
      In this compact, readable, and well-researched environmental history of Standard Oil operations in Cleveland and Whiting, Indiana, Wlasiuk shows that refineries and ecosystems mix no better than oil and water. This is an important book for anyone concerned with environmental justice - and injustice - in America."" - J.R. McNeill, Georgetown University

      ""This is no standard history of Standard Oil. Refining Nature takes us back to the origins of one of the world's most powerful monopolies and shows how the rise of Rockefeller's empire degraded local ecosystems in and around Cleveland and northwest Indiana. In the era of climate change, many scholars have focused on the global environmental effects of the petroleum industry, but Wlasiuk takes a different tack, offering fresh insights on the way Big Oil undermined the ecological health of a region that came to be known as Rust Belt, USA."" - Bart Elmore, The Ohio State University

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