Smoke on the Water: Incineration at Sea and the Birth of a Transatlantic Environmental Movement

by Dario Fazzi

The U.S. government, military, and industry once saw ocean incineration as the safest and most efficient way to dispose of hazardous chemical waste. Beginning in the late 1960s, toxic chemicals such as PCBs and other harmful industrial byproducts were taken out to sea to be destroyed in specially designed ships equipped with high-temperature combustion chambers and smokestacks. But public outcry arose after the environmental and health risks of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231212429
• ISBN13: 9780231212427
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"