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On Wednesday, April 10, from 6 to 7:30 pm, Buffalo Toronto Public Media will host a free 40-minute preview of a new documentary film titled Poisoned Ground: The Tragedy at Love Canal during a ...
May 18, 1980: U.S. prepares to evacuate all 710 families. May 19, 1980: State University of Buffalo neurologist says some Love Canal residents may have reversible nerve damage. Frustrated Love ...
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Thirty years after a federal emergency was declared at Love Canal in Niagara Falls, Western New York still grapples with an environmental burden from inherited and ongoing pollution, ...
Photo by Penelope D. Ploughman, courtesy of University Archives, University at Buffalo, State University of New York. “After we lived at Love Canal for a year,” said former resident Lois Gibbs ...
O’Brien’s latest book – Paradise Falls – dredges up the tragic real life horror story of Love Canal, with an unlikely twist. The book focuses on a band of mothers in the 1970’s who ...
A quarter of a century after the Love Canal disaster, the debate goes on ... toxic Erie County neighborhoods Thursday and The Buffalo News reports that at each site, the message was the same ...
BUFFALO, N.Y. – The University at Buffalo School of Architecture ... the retired environmental activist known for her work during the Love Canal crisis in Niagara Falls, N.Y., in the 1970s. Gibbs’ ...
He also helped arrange Erie County’s acquisition of the former Main Post Office building in downtown Buffalo for Erie Community College. He was brought into the Love Canal controversy by a UB ...
H. Butler Library, SUNY Buffalo State. The next several years transformed Gibbs into a household name, as she did everything possible to keep the Love Canal story in the news and on the public’s ...
Hickory Woods is a neighborhood where Buffalo's past and future collide ... Not far from Hickory Woods is Love Canal, where 25 years ago, residents blamed a rash of health problems on toxic ...