Once a hopeful dream of urban development, Love Canal became one of the most infamous environmental disasters in U.S. history. In the 1940s, the Hooker Chemical Company used the site in Niagara Falls, ...

When a toxic waste disaster unfolded in the 1970s, a White housewife became the face of the movement. Down the street, Black ...

In the late 1970s, residents of Love Canal, a working-class neighborhood in Niagara Falls, New York, discovered that their homes, schools and playgrounds were built on top of a former chemical ...

The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) has begun the process to determine if the land that was once Hooker Chemical Company's Love Canal landfill can be reclaimed ...

Drantch: Do you think that New York State was allowing Goodyear to violate the regulations? Kenny: I think So. I mean, I think they think they did the same thing with with Love Canal. I mean ...

In 1978 the issue of toxic waste began bubbling up in a neighborhood called Love Canal in Niagara Falls, New York. It was neither the first nor the worst toxic waste dump in the country.

Founded in 1903 in Rochester, New York, the Hooker Chemical and Plastics Corporation disposed of some 20,000 tons of toxic waste at Love Canal between 1942 and 1952. Photograph By Bettmann/Getty ...

“The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and US EPA have all determined through decades of extensive monitoring and testing that the landfill remedies, including at Love ...

In the late 1970s, residents of Love Canal, a working-class neighborhood in Niagara Falls, New York, discovered that their homes, schools and playgrounds were built on top of a former chemical ...