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"Nestled between the Sierre Madre Mountains and the Pacific Ocean, the self-described funky little community of Avila Beach had an ominous neighbor lurking over, and under, the town and its sand, soil, homes, and businesses. The Unocal Oil Company, long the town's major employer, had been steadily, and knowingly, polluting the seemingly pristine beach community for decades and would have continued were it not for a fateful morning jog in which longtime resident and new attorney, Saro Rizzo, literally stumbled on evidence of Unocal's dastardly despoiling of the environment. What begins as a simple case of trying to correct what appears to be a small problem quickly snowballs into the discovery of an environmental nightmare to rival the Exxon Valdez. In a classic and, unfortunately by now, familiar tale of big-business greed versus small-town pride, Pulitzer Prize-nominee Wolcott presents a balanced expose of one company's arrogant response to an ecological and economic disaster and what one town and one man accomplished in the face of overwhelming odds."
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"Barbara Wolcott recounts a chain of events that began as a jogger's effort to spruce up the local stretch of shore and nearly turned into a federal case."
Mechanical Engineering, August, 2003
"...the book is in the tradition of 'A Civil Action' and other inspirational stories of the triumph of the little guy against the big one....Told by a San Luis Obispo author, the book contains an interesting picture section to illustrate the area and the aftermath."
Fred Klein, Santa Barbara News-Press
David, Goliath and the Beach Cleaning Machine: How a Small Polluted Beach Town Fought an Oil Giant--And Won
David, Goliath and the Beach Cleaning Machine: How a Small Polluted Beach Town Fought an Oil Giant--And Won (Capital Currents),Barbara Wolcott,Capital Books,193186876X,Civil Law,Environmental,Environmental Conservation & Protection - General,Legal Reference / Law Profession,Nature,Nature/Ecology,Current Events / American,Environmental impact of natural disasters & phenomena
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