The toxic tale of the Love Canal fail
The toxic tale of the Love Canal fail
When Hooker Chemical sold its infamous toxic waste landfill to the Niagara Falls School Board, the $1 deal left Niagara residents seriously ill. But few believed the company could truly be at fault...until it was too late.
GUESTS
Paul Palmer — Niagara Falls native
Jim Palmer — Niagara Falls native
Luella Kenny — Love Canal resident, Love Canal Homeowners Association
Terry Lasher Winslow — former official Niagara county historian
Andy Hoffman — Professor of Sustainable Enterprise, University of Michigan
Amy Hay — Professor of History, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Jennifer Thomson — Professor of History, Bucknell University
David Konisky — Professor of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University
SELECTED SOURCES
Love Canal and the Poisoning of America — Michael H. Brown, The Atlantic, December 1979
Toxic Residents: Health and Citizenship at Love Canal — Prof. Jennifer Thomson
Love Canal Revisited: Race, Class, and Gender in Environmental Activism — Prof. Elizabeth D. Blum
Love Canal: Science, Politics, and People — Adeline Gordon Levine
Love Canal: Public Health Time Bomb — New York State Department of Health report
JUST FOR FUN
Lois Gibbs and the Love Canal — Lifetime movie
The Killing Ground documentary — ABC News Close-Up
The Goodday Show interview with former Hooker Chemical President Donald Bader
Love Canal Tragedy documentary — WNED Buffalo
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