Love Canal: Environmental Disaster

Niagara Falls in New York State is a beautiful city ruined by careless decision of Niagara Falls and Hook Chemicals. Families died of several diseases caused by underground toxic waste near homes and schools. The mother living near the canal of love, Louise Gibbs said. "My son was very healthy when I returned to this American dream house.It is epilepsy.

The Love Canal is known as one of the most serious environmental hazards in the country. It led to the development of the Federal Superfund program designed to oversee the management of dangerous waste disposal sites. Today is a canal. It covers 70 acres of land surrounded by chain fences. The only sign of the block is the only proof of what is happening here. After thousands of soil, air and water tests were conducted in the Federal Environment Protection Agency and New York State in 1988, the state decided that the eastern side of the Love Canal was not safe. However, areas directly adjacent to the north and the west are

The canal of Love quickly became a symbol of the imminent environmental disaster represented by countless toxic waste disposal sites in the USA. Legislators and activists use the efforts of Love Canal activists to cope with this dangerous and expensive problem. At the public policy level, legislators use the national propaganda raised in the disaster of the Love Canal to promote new laws and demand that polluters purify toxic waste locations. The result was better known as a comprehensive environmental response, compensation and liability law in 1980 - a super fund. Little unknown but also important results of canal love is the emergence of radical and environmental justice movement at the grassroots level.