Lois Gibbs became an activist after fighting to get her family and others evacuated from a contaminated neighborhood in Niagra Falls, N.Y., in the late 1970s. The Love Canal environmental disaster ...

Poisoned Ground: The Tragedy at Love Canal tells the dramatic and inspiring story of the ordinary women who fought against overwhelming odds for the health and safety of their families. In the late ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (WIVB) – A judge recently dismissed 18 class-action lawsuits that alleged toxic chemicals from Love Canal had migrated into their ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1978, a young housewife named Lois Gibbs captured the national media’s attention when she learned her community was built on a ...

NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (WKBW) — Goodyear Niagara Falls is weeks away from a state mandated deadline, to submit an Air Pollution Control Engineering Study, that would detail "performance of emission ...

Forty years ago this week, President Jimmy Carter declared Love Canal a national health emergency when the small community near Niagara Falls, New York, learned that their homes and school were built ...

NOTE: The media advisory below was posted on Nov. 1. Due to illness, Lois Gibbs has had to cancel her talk scheduled for Thursday, Nov. 14. BUFFALO, N.Y. – The University at Buffalo School of ...

NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (WIVB) – NYSERDA and the City of Niagara Falls are in preliminary discussions for a large-scale solar farm on 16 acres of Love Canal, the location of one of the country’s worst ...

The UB Libraries will present the PBS documentary “Poisoned Ground: The Tragedy at Love Canal” at 2 p.m. Nov. 19 in 310 Capen Hall, North Campus. Screening of the 2025 Emmy-nominated film is presented ...

(AP) Thirty-five years after Love Canal’s oozing toxic waste scared away a neighborhood and became a symbol of environmental catastrophe, history could be repeating itself. New residents, attracted by ...

Entrepreneur William T. Love dreamed of creating a canal to connect Lake Ontario with the Niagara River, providing cheap hydroelectric power for a growing community. The Love Canal project began with ...

In 1978, a young housewife named Lois Gibbs captured the national media’s attention when she learned her community was built on a toxic waste dump. She lived in Love Canal, a neighborhood in Niagara ...