The toxic tale of the Love Canal fail

Spectacular Failures by American Public Media

Aug 24, 202000:39:39Business

When Hooker Chemical sold its infamous toxic waste landfill to the Niagara Falls School Board, the $1 deal left Niagara residents seriously ill. But few believed the company could truly be at fault...until it was too lat...

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