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050 0 0 _aTD181.N72
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082 0 0 _a363.738/40974799
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100 1 _aO'Brien, Keith,
_d1973-
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aParadise Falls :
_bthe True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe.
250 _aFirst edition.
264 1 _aNew York :
_bPantheon Books,
_c2022.
264 4 _c2022
300 _axi, 455 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :
_billustrations, maps, portraits ;
_c25 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 363-423) and index
505 0 _aMaps -- Author's note -- Introduction : May 14, 1972 -- Part I : December 1976-December 1977 -- Part II : January-October 1978 -- Part III : October 1978-December 1979 -- Part IV : January-May 1980 -- Epilogue.
520 _a"From the New York Times best-selling journalist, the staggering, hidden story of an unlikely band of mothers who discovered the deadly secret of Love Canal, and exposed one of America's most devastating environmental disasters. Lois Gibbs, Luella Kenny and Barbara Quimby thought they had found a slice of the American dream when they and their families moved onto the quiet streets of Love Canal, a picturesque middle-class hamlet by Niagara Falls in the winter of 1977, the town had record snowfalls, and in the spring, rains filled the earth with water like a sponge and the basements of the neighborhood's homes with a pungent odor. It was the sweet, synthetic smell of chemicals. Then, one by one, the children of the more than 800 families that made Love Canal their home started getting very sick. In this propulsive work of narrative reportage, Keith O'Brien uncovers how Lois, Luella, Barbara and other local mothers uncovered the poisonous secret of Love Canal: that they were living on the site where industrial employer Hooker Chemical had been dumping toxic waste for years, and covering it up. O'Brien braids together the previously unknown stories of Hooker Chemical's deception, the local newspapermen and scientists who tried to help, the city officials who didn't, and the heroic women who stood up to corporate and governmental indifference, and-ultimately-triumphed. O'Brien paints a vividly how their dauntless efforts would capture the American imagination at the time and form the foundation of the modern environmental movement"--
_cProvided by publisher
650 0 _aChemical plants
_xWaste disposal
_xEnvironmental aspects
_zNew York (State)
_zNiagara Falls.
650 0 _aHazardous waste sites
_zNew York (State)
_zNiagara Falls.
650 0 _aPollution
_xPhysiological effect
_zNew York (State)
_zNiagara Falls.
650 0 _aHazardous waste site remediation
_zNew York (State)
_zNiagara Falls
_xCitizen participation.
650 1 _aPollution
_xPhysiological effect
_zNew York (State)
_zNiagara Falls.
650 7 _aTECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING
_xEnvironmental
_xGeneral.
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650 7 _aChemical plants
_xWaste disposal
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650 7 _aHazardous waste site remediation
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650 7 _aHazardous waste sites.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst00952349
650 7 _aPollution
_xPhysiological effect.
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650 7 _aChemical factories.
_2sears
650 7 _aHazardous waste sites.
_2sears
650 7 _aPollution.
_2sears
_92018
650 7 _aHazardous wastes.
_2sears
651 0 _aLove Canal Chemical Waste Landfill (Niagara Falls, N.Y.)
_xHistory.
651 6 _aLove Canal Chemical Waste Landfill (Niagara Falls, N.Y.)
_xHistoire.
651 7 _aNew York (State)
_zNiagara Falls.
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651 7 _aNew York (State)
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651 7 _aLove Canal Chemical Waste Landfill (Niagara Falls, N.Y.)
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655 7 _aHistory.
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655 7 _aHISTORY / United States / 20th Century HISTORY / Social Activists.
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776 0 8 _iOnline version:
_aO'Brien, Keith, 1973-
_tParadise falls.
_bFirst edition.
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