Citizen’s Clearinghouse for Hazardous Waste Is Founded
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events from History II: Ecology and the Environment Series
- Categories: Social Issues, Reform, and Protest, Environmental Issues
- Subcategories: Organizations, Agencies, Institutions, Ecology, Environment, Conservation, Pollution, Toxic Waste
- Curriculum: American History 1951-present
- Geographical Location: New York
- Date: 1981
Article abstract: The Citizen’s Clearinghouse for Hazardous Waste was founded in response to growing grassroots concern about local environmental threats.
Summary of Event
Citizen’s Clearinghouse for Hazardous Waste (CCHW) was founded in 1981 by grassroots leaders of the movement that had developed out of the Love Canal crisis. In 1978, reports had begun appearing about hazardous chemical wastes buried beneath homes and schools in the Love Canal neighborhood of Niagara Falls, New York. More than twenty-one thousand tons of wastes had been generated...
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