Rachel Carson is considered the mother of environmental toxicology, as she made it a distinct field within toxicology in 1962 with the publication of her book Silent Spring, which covered the effects of uncontrolled pesticide use.
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Scientists may choose from tests covering Air Resources, Environmental Biology, Environmental Chemistry, Environmental Microbiology, Environmental Toxicology, Groundwater and the Subsurface Environment, Surface Water Resources, or Sustainability Science.
Following a Ph.D. (1986–90) in Environmental Toxicology from Cornell University (which he attended on an Andrew White scholarship), he became an activist with the Narmada Bachao Andolan (1990–95).