Love Canal Disaster Exposes Decades of Corporate Toxic Dumping Cover-Up
On August 7, 1978, President Jimmy Carter declared a federal health emergency at Love Canal, a neighborhood in Niagara Falls, New York built atop a toxic waste dump. The disaster exposed how Hooker Chemical Company had knowingly sold contaminated land for housing development while concealing the …
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Occidental Petroleum
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