That canal was built by a shady developer who — in journalist Keith O’Brien’s telling — had skipped town by 1896. His name was William Love. The neighborhood built atop the toxic landfill would become ...

Apr. 22—A new documentary about the Love Canal disaster made its debut on PBS Monday. "Poisoned Ground: The Tragedy at Love Canal," is part of the American Experience series. It can be seen locally on ...

May 30—The site of the worst environmental disaster involving chemical wastes in U.S. history could be transformed into a large-scale, eco-friendly, solar renewable energy project. The New York State ...

As a result of the Love Canal disaster, the federal government began an $8.5 billion Superfund program to clean up hazardous waste sites nationwide. Since Superfund was enacted into law in 1980, more ...

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 ...

BRISTOL, Tenn. — Two people who were part of the Love Canal environmental disaster will be guest speakers at a public meeting tonight. Lois Gibbs and Stephen Lester will join members of HOPE for ...

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 ...

Call it a bird's-eye view of a disaster area. Plans are in the works for a Love Canal museum, complete with a viewing tower overlooking the former residential area devastated in the 1970s by one of ...

About a thousand tons of contaminated soil from the notorious Love Canal environmental disaster in New York is being shipped by rail to Kimball for incineration because the company that is disposing ...

"It meant a lot," he said of his reaction when he first heard the news. "Just to know my paper was one of the 10 best submitted. It is definitely a thrill." His paper—"From Disaster to Reform: How the ...