Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry Of Everyday Products Who's at Risk And What's At Stake For American Power
By Mark Schapiro
Chelsea Green Publishing, $22.95
Reviewed by Susan Moran
In the quagmire of the Iraq war, the United States has lost credibility as a world leader. In Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products, investigative journalist Mark Schapiro offers another version of the erosion of American leadership. In this case, it's how the U.S. government has gone from one whose environmental laws and regulations were once a model for other nations to one whose standards have fallen so far below those of even some developing nations.