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The staggering story of an unlikely band of mothers in the 1970s who discovered Hooker Chemical's deadly secret of Love Canal—exposing one of America’s most devastating toxic waste disasters and sparking the modern environmental movement as we know it today.

“Propulsive...A mighty work of historical journalism...A glorious quotidian thriller about people forced to find and use their inner strength.” —The Boston Globe

Lois Gibbs, Luella Kenny, and other mothers loved their neighborhood on the...

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Business History Science & Technology Industries United States History Ecology & Environmental Sciences Industries - General & Miscellaneous Basic Materials Industries United States History - Northeastern & Middle Atlantic Region Pollution & Pollutants General & Heavy Industry - Pollution Control & Waste Management Chemical & Advanced Material Industries - General & Miscellaneous New York (State) - State & Local History General & Miscellaneous Pollution & Pollutants Love Canal Chemical Waste Landfill (Niagara Falls, New York)

Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe

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