October
25, 2002
Pioneering Environmental
Activist Lois Gibbs at MHC October 30
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Lois Gibbs
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Love Canal had yet
to become a household name in 1978, the year that Lois Gibbs,
a twenty-seven-year-old homemaker, discovered that her son's
elementary school had been built atop a 20,000-ton toxic-chemical
dump in Niagara Falls, New York. Gathering her courage, she knocked
on doors throughout her neighborhood, sharing information and
concerns with other residents. After a two-year struggle, the
Love Canal Homeowners Association Gibbs founded succeeded in persuading
the federal government to relocate 833 families from the area,
signaling the first major victory in a grassroots environmental
movement that would launch the federal Superfund program for the
cleanup of hazardous waste sites. more>
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