Sentences with phrase «canal toxic waste site»
I have a piece on the Booming blog of The Times looking back at the complicated environmental and political legacy of the Love Canal toxic waste site 35 years after state and federal officials declared an environmental emergency there.
https://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/ Not exact matches
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.
Gibbs was awarded the Goldman Prize in 1990 for her work to expose and clean - up «the love canal,» a 21,000 - ton toxic waste site buried beneath her neighborhood in Niagara Falls, New York.