Laying Waste: The Poisoning of America by Toxic Chemicals
Nonfiction work
By: Michael H. Brown
Date: 1979
Source: Brown, Michael H. Laying Waste: The Poisoning of America by Toxic Chemicals. New York: Pantheon Books, 1979, 4–7.
About the Author: Michael Harold Brown was born in Niagara Falls, New York, in 1952 and received a B.A. from Fordham University in 1974. Between 1977 and 1979, he wrote for the Niagara Gazette, leaving in 1979 to become an independent writer. He received four Pulitzer Prize nominations in journalism for his reporting of the effect of toxic waste at Love Canal in Niagara Falls. In 1979, the Environmental Protection Agency honored him for his coverage of Love Canal.
Introduction
Love Canal is perhaps a misnomer, for it never was a canal but rather an unfinished portion of the Erie Canal. The city of Niagara Falls, New York, unable to use Love Canal for transit, instead made it a...
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