Love Canal: America’s First Superfund Site | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE

Learn why the Love Canal disaster, one of the largest and most impactful public health and environmental disasters in U.S. history, led to the passage of the landmark federal Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, informally known as Superfund, a program that today oversees the remediation of more than 1,300 dangerous hazardous waste sites across the country, in these clips excerpted from Poisoned Ground: The Tragedy at Love Canal | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE.