Niagara Falls is a small city in western New York state, a few miles from Buffalo. It is now known as the home of Love Canal, a former chemical dump, which was covered over with residential housing in the 1950s. Dark pools of foul, stinking chemicals seeping upward into the basements of homes were the first signs of...
Tag - chemical pollution
It's six a.m. in Cambridgeport, an integrated, basically blue-collar neighborhood in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In the row of triple deckers on Brookline Street, Gwen Woods and her neighbors awaken simultaneously. At that tender hour, Advent Corporation's Emily Street plant is already venting styrene fumes into the...
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The following item also appears in the July, 1971 issue of Freedom News. Once again the profit seekers are proceeding without regard for chemical pollution and the health of man. The chemical that is being proposed to make it cheap to get the fleece off of sheep is supposed to be safe: "So far there is no evidence...