| Book Review | Environmental History, 14.1

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Toxic Burn: The Grassroots Struggle against the WTI Incinerator. By Thomas Shevory. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007. x + 280 pp. Appendix, notes, and index. Paper $19.95.

In 1993 the Waste Technologies Incorporated hazardous waste incinerator began operations on a patch of land along the Ohio River in East Liverpool, Ohio's troubled East End neighborhood. The incinerator brought some jobs, but not enough to replace the thousands that had been lost over the previous decades as the pottery industry disappeared. Just as the incinerator's arrival didn't end East Liverpool's decades-long economic deterioration, the opening of the incinerator didn't end what had already been fourteen years of opposition. However, smoke from the stack did signal a real defeat for environmental activists, including those in Greenpeace and Save Our County, which had long engaged in the anti-toxics campaign, publicizing the dangers of chemical spills, accidental explosions, and the cumulative effects of hazardous emissions, especially on children attending a nearby school.

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