Paradise Falls : a deadly secret, a cover-up, and the women who forged the modern environmental movement
2023
Book
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.
Item Details
ISBN:
- 9780593312094
- 0593312090
Edition: First Vintage Books edition.
Description: xi, 455 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Control Number: 3303062
Publisher: New York : Vintage Books, 2023.Subjects:
- Chemical plants -- Waste disposal -- Environmental aspects -- New York (State) -- Niagara Falls.
- Hazardous waste site remediation -- New York (State) -- Niagara Falls -- Citizen participation.
- Hazardous waste sites -- New York (State) -- Niagara Falls.
- Love Canal Chemical Waste Landfill (Niagara Falls, N.Y.) -- History.
- Pollution -- Physiological effect -- New York (State) -- Niagara Falls.