Fire resistant: why I went to jail to protect my daughter from toxic polluters

摘要

I am a registered nurse, but my most important credential is that I am a mother, Although I'm not a scientist and I don't have a PhD, maybe I should have a few letters following my name: NMBS: no more bullshit, I live with my family in the Ohio Rivervalley, where I've been involved in an effort to stop one of the world's largest commercial toxic-waste incinerators, mn by a firm called Waste Technologies Industries (WTI), It's located in the flood plain on the banks of the Ohio River, in an impoverished, minority Appalachian river town It's in a residential area where the closest home is only 320 feet away WII's smokestack is level with the front doors and windows of a 400-pupil elementary school that sits on a bluff above the site just 1,100 feet away.