To hear of Love Canal today is to be reminded of the environmental disaster that began unfolding on the east side of Niagara Falls, N.Y., roughly 50 years ago. The planned community was in fact a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (WIVB) – A judge recently dismissed 18 class-action lawsuits that alleged toxic chemicals from Love Canal had migrated into their ...

Lois Gibbs became an activist after fighting to get her family and others evacuated from a contaminated neighborhood in Niagra Falls, N.Y., in the late 1970s. The Love Canal environmental disaster ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1978, a young housewife named Lois Gibbs captured the national media’s attention when she learned her community was built on a ...

Poisoned Ground: The Tragedy at Love Canal tells the dramatic and inspiring story of the ordinary women who fought against overwhelming odds for the health and safety of their families. In the late ...

But to Lois Gibbs, who made Love Canal a national crusade for cleaning toxic wastes, it will always be a cesspool. "It's obviously not cleaned up, because there are still 20,000 tons of chemicals ...

Forty years ago this week, President Jimmy Carter declared Love Canal a national health emergency when the small community near Niagara Falls, New York, learned that their homes and school were built ...

NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. -- Twenty-five years ago, an underground cauldron of chemical soup bubbled into back yards and basements from an abandoned canal. Some 800 families were evacuated, 300 homes ...

NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (WIVB) – NYSERDA and the City of Niagara Falls are in preliminary discussions for a large-scale solar farm on 16 acres of Love Canal, the location of one of the country’s worst ...

This post is a review of Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe. By Keith O’Brien. Pantheon Books. 480 pp. $30. Between 1941 and 1952, Hook Chemical buried drums filled with 20 ...