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love canal disaster  

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  • The Love Canal disaster began in the 1950s and came to light in 1976 in Niagara Falls, New York, when the effects of toxic waste buried beneath the neighborhood were discovered. One of the most widely publicized toxic waste disasters, it has remained an important symbol of environmental mismanagement in the environmentalist, public health, and urban planning communities. [Source: Encyclopedia of White-Collar and Corporate Crime; Love Canal Disaster]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-VM6S47JQ-L

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