Toxic Burn: The Grassroots Struggle against the WTI Incinerator

by thomas shevory

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Toxic Burn is a gripping account of the activist movement against the imposing WTI incinerator in the rust belt town of East Liverpool, Ohio. Thomas Shevory tells the story of building, maintaining, and resisting the incinerator and shows that the actions of determined citizens are essential to developing new environmental models and saving the lives of those in the path of potential disaster.

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Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Politics and Government
DDC/MDS
363.73846Society, government, & cultureSocial problems and social servicesPublic Safety - Police, Crime InvestigationEnvironmental Issues - Pollution, Recycling, Global WarmingPollutionPollutants by sourceToxic chemicals
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TD1062 .S44TechnologyEnvironmental technology. Sanitary engineeringEnvironmental technology. Sanitary engineeringHazardous substances and their disposal
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