The Boston Globe, August 7th, 1998
Lois Gibbs is executive director of the Center for Health, Environment and Justice and author of "Love Canal, The Story Continues." Twenty years ago, when the public first heard the words Love Canal, I was a young mother living in Niagara Falls, N.Y., just three blocks east of the Love Canal dump site, which contained 20,000 tons of more than 200 different chemicals. I set out to investigate whether my neighbors' children were as sick as my children were. As I went door to door, I was shocked to hear stories of birth defects, miscarriages, cancers, and the leaking of multicolored chemical ooze...
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