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 ...

Beneath the homes, schools, and playgrounds of Love Canal, nearly 20,000 tons of toxic waste lay buried. What started as a quiet suburban neighborhood became one of the worst environmental disasters ...

In the 1940s, the Hooker Chemical Company buried nearly 20,000 tons of toxic waste under Love Canal. Decades later, an entire neighborhood was unknowingly built on top of it—what happened next was a ...

While residents were moved from Niagara Falls’ Love Canal neighborhood when President Jimmy Carter declared a state of emergency in 1978, a year later, the question of remediation remained. The ...

On Aug. 7, 1978, President Jimmy Carter declared a federal health emergency at Love Canal, just five days after Dr. Robert Whalen, state health commissioner, issued New York's own emergency ...