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Have We Learned the Lessons of Love Canal?

By Mark Scott

Buffalo, NY – It's been 25 years since the residents of a Niagara Falls neighborhood known as Love Canal learned they were living on top of a toxic nightmare. Hundreds of families were relocated, and the toxic waste buried there was sealed and capped. But a quarter-century later, some wonder whether we've learned the lessons of Love Canal.

Joseph Gardella is a professor of chemistry at the University at Buffalo. Click the "listen" icon above to hear his interview with WBFO's Mark Scott.