Love Canal
Author | : Adeline Levine |
Publisher | : Free Press |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Adeline Levine |
Publisher | : Free Press |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Richard S. Newman |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 327 |
Release | : 2016-04-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0190262842 |
In the summer of 1978, residents of Love Canal, a suburban development in Niagara Falls, NY, began protesting against the leaking toxic waste dump in their midst-a sixteen-acre site containing 100,000 barrels of chemical waste that anchored their neighborhood. Initially seeking evacuation, area activists soon found that they were engaged in a far larger battle over the meaning of America's industrial past and its environmental future. The Love Canal protest movement inaugurated the era of grassroots environmentalism, spawning new anti-toxics laws and new models of ecological protest. Historian Richard S. Newman examines the Love Canal crisis through the area's broader landscape, detailing the way this ever-contentious region has been used, altered, and understood from the colonial era to the present day. Newman journeys into colonial land use battles between Native Americans and European settlers, 19th-century utopian city planning, the rise of the American chemical industry in the 20th century, the transformation of environmental activism in the 1970s, and the memory of environmental disasters in our own time. In an era of hydrofracking and renewed concern about nuclear waste disposal, Love Canal remains relevant. It is only by starting at the very beginning of the site's environmental history that we can understand the road to a hazardous waste crisis in the 1970s-and to the global environmental justice movement it sparked.
Author | : Penelope Ploughman PhD JD |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 211 |
Release | : 2013-03-25 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 1439641994 |
Love Canal originated in 1894 as part of William T. Love's dream to build a model city and power canal. The neighborhood emerged in the 1970s as an environmental nightmare and harbinger of the worldwide hazardous waste crisis. Photographs in Love Canal tell the story of the community's early development and the subsequent use of the canal by Hooker Electrochemical Company to discard industrial chemical waste from 1942 to 1953. In the late 1970s, the seemingly dormant dump began to leak, and residents found themselves in a slowly unfolding nightmare, learning that the waste dumped in the canal decades before was not simply garbage but actually a toxic brew of dangerous chemicals that were hazardous to life, health, and property.
Author | : Elizabeth D. Blum |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Historical snapshots of the Love Canal area -- Gender at Love Canal -- Race at Love Canal -- Class at Love Canal -- Historical implications of gender, race, and class at Love Canal
Author | : Allan Mazur |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674748330 |
Love Canal--a community poisoned by toxic waste. Borrowing the multi-viewpoint technique of the classic Japanese film RASHOMON, sociologist/engineer Allan Mazur reveals that there are many--often conflicting--versions of what occurred at Love Canal. His collection of gripping personal tales tells how politics, journalism, and epidemiology often clash, when confronting a potential community disaster.
Author | : Victoria Sherrow |
Publisher | : Enslow Publishing |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780766015531 |
When residents moved into the neighborhood of Love Canal in the 1950s, no one knew that their homes were built on top of a toxic waste dump. By the 1970s, fould-smelling slime began seeping through basement walls, trees began to wither and die, and complaints of stomach ailments, headaches, and even birth defects increased. This book explores the roots of the tragedy.
Author | : Lois Marie Gibbs |
Publisher | : Island Press |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2011-02-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1610910303 |
Today, “Love Canal” is synonymous with the struggle for environmental health and justice. But in 1972, when Lois Gibbs moved there with her husband and new baby, it was simply a modest neighborhood in Niagara Falls, New York. How did this community become the poster child for toxic disasters? How did Gibbs and her neighbors start a national movement that continues to this day? What do their efforts teach us about current environmental health threats and how to prevent them? Love Canal is Gibbs’ original account of the landmark case, now updated with insights gained over three decades.
Author | : Jennifer Reed |
Publisher | : Infobase Publishing |
Total Pages | : 115 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Chemical industry |
ISBN | : 1438124821 |
Rumors had circulated for years that the Love Canal community near Niagara Falls, New York, was contaminated by toxic chemicals.
Author | : Lois Marie Gibbs |
Publisher | : Grove/Atlantic |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Hazardous wastes |
ISBN | : 9780394179940 |
The young housewife who organized the residents of the Love Canal neighborhood to publicize their plight and protest to state and federal officials describes how she persuaded government officials to act
Author | : Michael Brown |
Publisher | : Pocket Books |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9780671453596 |
A Niagara Falls, N.Y., reporter uncovered the Love Canal toxic waste scandal in 1978, and now relates tales of thousands of chemical dumps that contaminate waters, soil and air in the United States.