127: Love Canal

What happens when your home is built on top of 20,000 tons of toxic chemical and radioactive waste? What about the park? The playground? Your child’s school? These questions were all too real for the residents of one sleepy Niagara Falls suburb, little they know they were in the fight of their lives. Learn more about the Love Canal disaster in this week’s episode.

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Making Love Canal: Link

Love Canal & Lois Gibbs 35 Years Later: Link

ABC News Close-Up: The Killing Ground (1979): Link

Residents say Love Canal chemicals continue to make them sick: Link

A history of the Love Canal disaster, 1893 to 1998: Link

There’s No Love Lost for Entrepreneur Who Envisioned Model City: Link

The International Boundary Water Treaty: Link

Love Canal - Public Health Time Bomb: Link

Love Canal: A Special Report to the Governor & Legislature: April 1981: Link

Lawsuits: Love Canal still oozes 35 years later: Link