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Non Violence Campaign. East Liverpool is also noted for its none Violent action against 10 The Waste Technologies Industry, Inc. An incinerator was built in the impoverished community and sat less than 300 feet away from local homes and 1,100 feet from an elementary school. Over 1,500 hundred people joined the 1990 protest against the facility. The movement to shut the facility down would go on to get the support of the Clinton Gore Campaign while when visiting Weirton West Virginia, the issue was brought to the campaigns attention. The campaign promised to see the facility shut down however this would not come into action. Despite failing standards to meet approval the incinerator continues to exist to this day although it is thought that the Green Peace movement did directly impact the closure of other unsafe facilities that did not meet the regulatory standards of the EPA. In 2009 Jo Ann 11 Bobby-Gilbert, East Liverpool Review reported "Officials from the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency met Thursday with the city's board of health, fielding questions from citizens concerned about a pink plume emitted in June from the stack at Heritage-WTI. The pink tinge in the plume was the result of iodine in the vapor being discharged from the hazardous waste incinerator during a power outage on June 9... At yesterday's meeting, EPA representatives reiterated there was no health risk associated with the release of iodine into the air that day, saying the level at which an average person - including those with a sensitivity to the element - could be exposed with no effect has been shown to be 1,000 micrograms per cubic meter,".