Foreword
In 1977, government investigators discovered that the Love Canal community in Niagara Falls, New York, had been built on top of a chemical dump site, and that its water, soil, and air were contaminated with toxic waste. The area was evacuated, and the Federal and State governments spent 12 years and millions of dollars cleaning it up.Love Canal was a turning point. In the following months, dozens of other chemical wastelands were detected across the Nation, mainly in abandoned warehouses, manufacturing facilities, processing plants, and landfills.In 1980, in response to growing concern about the health and environmental risks posed by…
