Paradise Falls: A Deadly Secret, a Cover-Up, and the Women Who Forged the Modern Environmental Movement OBrien Keith
Paradise Falls: A Deadly Secret, a Cover-Up, and the Women Who Forged the Modern Environmental Movement OBrien Keith The staggering story of an unlikely band of mothers in the 1970s who discovered…
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Paradise Falls: A Deadly Secret, a Cover-Up, and the Women Who Forged the Modern Environmental Movement OBrien Keith
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.Lois Gibbs, Luella Kenny, and other mothers loved their neighborhood on the east side of Niagara Falls. But in the spring of 1977, pungent odors began to seep into these little houses, and it didn't take long for worried mothers to identify the curious scent. It had an elementary school, a playground, and rows of affordable homes.
The school and playground had been built atop an old canal--Love Canal, it It was the sickly sweet smell of chemicals.In this propulsive work of narrative storytelling, NYT journalist Keith O'Brien uncovers how Gibbs and Kenny exposed the poisonous secrets buried in their neighborhood.