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 ...

Citing the devastating history of Love Canal, the president of the Niagara Falls chapter of the NAACP joined ...

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.

“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 ...