4/12/2022)New York Times journalist Keith O'Brien reviews his book Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe. O’Brien uncovers how mothers who loved their neighborhood on the east side of Niagara Falls were exposed to the poisonous secrets buried in their neighborhood.
Join us on this installment of Leonard Lopate at Large, when Keith O'Brien examines this staggering story of an unlikely band of mothers in the 1970s who discovered Hooker Chemical's deadly secret of Love Canal—exposing one of America’s most devastating toxic waste disasters and sparking the modern environmental movement as we know it today.