BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The tragic aspects of Love Canal are always at the forefront of our memory of that disaster, but a newly-opened collection of archival materials provides conclusive evidence that what ...

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, ...

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

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 ...

That claim is supported by a 1985 study from the prestigious Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo that found increased birth defects at Love Canal over a control group, as well as a ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...