Environmental disasters

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Contains a series of articles about nuclear waste in Niagara Falls and Niagara County. Manhattan Project, Human Radiation Experiements, "Why is Niagara Burning?", etc. All about chemical, nuclear and industrial waste dumping in Niagara Falls.

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Photographs, Board Minutes, events, Annual Reports, Educational Initiatives, directories, research, histories and guidebooks and operating files of the Niagara Falls Chamber of Commerce.

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Photographs of Niagara Community Church at 104th Street and Cayuga Drive, including photographs of NYS Department of Environmental Conservation taking soil samples of potentially toxic waste found on church grounds

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Reports from Frontier Chemical Waste and the Hazorb Site.

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Reason Article "Love Canal The Truth Seeps Out" by Eric Zuesse (photocopy), Love Canal Follow-up Health Study (photocopy)

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Newsletters, annual reports, and other publications from Hooker Electrochemical and Durez Plastics. Also, 2 bound volumes of the newsletter "Hooker Gas" from 1938-1945. Hazardous Waste Reports from Durez plastics, Hooker Family Biographies.

Also called: Hooker Gas, Hooker Chemical Company and later OxyChem or Occidental Chemical Corporation.

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Invitation to the Lake Ontario Ordinance Works Site Restoration Advisory Board Meeting (original), Department of Energy Public Meeting Flyer (original)

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News clippings pertaining to the Love Canal environmental disaster from the Louise Lewis collection.

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Videos related to the Love Canal environmental disaster

Scope and Contents "How the Press Affects Federal Policy Making: Six Case Studies" chapter "Shrinking the Policy Process: The Press and the 1980 Love Canal Relocation" (photocopy), Invitation and RSVP slip for a New York Public Intst Research Group, Inc. Love Canal Benefit Dinner featuring Ralph Nader (Original), Electric Perspectives Magazine featuring an article on Love Canal (original), Letter from Grossman, Levine and Civiletto Attorneys at Law regarding the settlement for Love Canal and the Supreme Court...