This article discusses President Lyndon B. Johnson's public address on October 13th, 1966, in which he asserted that the United States has reached a turning point in its conservation history because more land is being preserved and saved than is…
In the late 1970's it was revealed that Hooker Chemical Company had been using Love Canal in Niagara Falls, NY to bury 22,000 tons of toxic waste. The site was sold by Hooker for residential construction, but after a while, heavy rains released the…