It's been 25 years since the evacuation of Love Canal, the New York neighborhood built on top of toxic waste. But if you think stories like that are a thing of the past, think again, reports The ...

The discovery ignited fears of cancer and birth defects, gave rise to the Superfund law that governs environmental cleanups, and forever linked one name to toxic disasters: Love Canal. Today ...

But no one lives here anymore. There aren’t any signs saying where you are, so I’ll tell you: It’s Love Canal, an idyllic suburb that caught the country’s attention back in 1978 when its ...

Thirty years ago Thursday, President Jimmy Carter declared Love Canal a federal disaster area. The decision came after the discovery that the Niagara Falls neighborhood was built on top of 20,000 ...

When Varsha Kraus left the Love Canal neighborhood in Niagara Falls with her husband and three young children in 1981, she thought she was leaving a nightmare behind. The family moved into a ...

Love Canal, a neighborhood in Niagara Falls, N.Y., was hopelessly contaminated, and the life of everyone there was in danger as long as the government refused to help. The incident played out 35 ...

And it's not just any contamination. It's the same toxic waste from Love Canal-- considered one of the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history. In the late 1970s, President Jimmy Carter ...

A quarter of a century after the Love Canal disaster, the debate goes on over how the government handled the environmental calamity that led to the creation of the EPA Superfund program.