Love Canal | Unlikely Heroes | 5

American Scandal

Wondery

True Crime, Exhibit C, Society & Culture, History, Documentary, History Daily, American History Tellers, Lindsay Graham

4.6 • 18.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Drawing on more than 100 hours of interviews and boxes of unreleased documents, journalist Keith O’Brien unraveled the mystery behind the Love Canal disaster in his book, Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe. Today, O’Brien takes Lindsay through what he discovered about an unlikely group of women who stood up against injustice to save their families. O’Brien’s reporting reveals new details about the Love Canal site and Hooker Chemical, and explores how the tragedy impacted modern day environmental policy.

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0:00.0	Wundry Plus subscribers can binge new seasons of American scandal early and ad free right now.
0:05.7	Join Wundry Plus in the Wundery app or on Apple Podcasts. from Wundery I'm Lindsay, and this is American scandal. In the late 1970s,
0:33.0	in the late
0:35.0	in the world. In the late 1970s, ordinary residents of a suburban community in Niagara Falls, New York
0:49.2	began smelling chemical odors in their homes and experiencing strange ailments.
0:54.4	It turned out that their neighborhood was built on top of land previously used as a dumping
0:58.6	ground for toxic chemicals.
1:00.5	The site known as Love Canal became a source of contentious debate over how to solve the area's problems.
1:07.0	It wasn't until a group of determined women from the community joined together to speak out that the disaster at Love Canal was exposed.
1:14.6	Many of these women were forced to become activists overnight in order to protect their children
1:19.0	and keep their families safe.
1:21.0	Their fight against big corporations and political power sparked some of the modern day
1:25.3	environmental legislation we have today.
1:28.2	My guest today is Keith O'Brien, author of Paradise Falls, the true story of an environmental catastrophe.
1:34.0	Through original reporting and in-depth interviews, O'Brien brings to life the human stories
1:38.9	at the heart of this environmental disaster.
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