environmental causes

30 years after Love Canal, schoolkids still at risk

CNN.com - Health  Fri, 08/22/2008 - 9:15am

Thirty years ago this summer, America learned the name Love Canal. The working-class Niagara Falls neighborhood built atop tons of chemical waste became a synonym for environmental disaster.

Despite the outcry over Love Canal, little has been done to make schoolchildren safer from hazardous or toxic waste, says one advocate for environmental causes.