Love Canal: A Toxic History from Colonial Times to the Present

by Richard S. Newman

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195374835
• ISBN13: 9780195374834
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Oxford Univ PR
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.4"