THE LOVE CANAL CRISIS
Episode 237 | Historical Events
In this History episode we focus on the Love Canal Crisis — the neighborhood in Niagara Falls, New York, built on top of 21,000 tons of toxic chemical waste buried by Hooker Chemical from 1942 to 1953. Hooker sold the land to the school board for one dollar, with a deed warning of the buried chemicals. The school board built a school on it. A neighborhood grew up around it. And through the 1960s and 1970s, the chemicals beneath the surface migrated into basements, yards, and the school grounds, producing miscarriages, birth defects, nervous system disorders…
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