Corporate Greed and Irresponsibility in “Paradise Falls” – Chicago Review of Books

Corporate Greed and Irresponsibility in “Paradise Falls” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] In the 1970s, Love Canal, an otherwise peaceful neighborhood in Niagara Falls, New York, was afflicted by environmental oddities resembling Biblical plagues. Thick, viscous scum roiled on the surface of local streams. Rocks in the local playground would occasionally burst into flames. A noxious stench invaded basements and kitchens, seeped into clothes, and burned … Read more