Federal Environmental Protection Agency (E.P.A.) Marshal Jack Taggart (Steven Seagal) has set out on assignment to avenge the ruthless killing of a trusted colleague. Following the murdered agent’s trail, Taggart travels through the hills of Appalachia uncovering the illegal dumping of hazardous waste into abandoned mine shafts that most residents would rather forget.

Working undercover as a carpenter, Taggart intermingles with the townspeople who are getting sick, but still living in fear of the industrial poisoning their environment. Now Taggart struggles to avenge his colleague’s death and to prevent an irrevocable ecological catastrophe that will turn this idyllic land into an uninhabitable wasteland for generations to come.