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 ...

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 ...

Future generations need to continue fighting for the environment, famed environmentalist Lois Marie Gibbs told a sparsely filled auditorium of mostly graduate students, professors and local activists ...

Robert Redford, Ashley Judd and Meryl Streep get top billing in TV Topics in the short summary of Tuesday’s episode of PBS’ “American Masters” series. But the celebrity narrators aren’t the real stars ...