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…
The newly approved Environmental Studies program first appears the 1965-1966 Middlebury course catalog, made available to students in the fall of 1965.
Middlebury students were primarily concerned with issues of nuclear disarmament and the accompanying Cuban Missile Crisis, but also with individual impacts on the local environment. Disarmament sparked a shift in the minds of students towards a more…