Revisiting Love Canal

I have a piece on the Booming blog of The Times looking back at the complicated environmental and political legacy of the Love Canal toxic waste site 35 years after state and federal officials declared an environmental emergency there. The galvanizing story was that of the frightened, outraged homeowners around Love Canal, an unfinished waterway near in upstate New York that, in the industrial boom around World War II, became a chemical dump. Lois Gibbs, a mother of two who led community efforts to get nearby families relocated and seek compensation from the responsible company, became the public face of Love Canal and still leads an organization devoted to cleaning up such sites. In December of that year, the most sweeping impact of Love Canal came with enactment of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, best known as Superfund.
Source: NEW YORK TIMES
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