November 30, 2008
Audubon Magazine
‘Okay, You Want to Fight Back?’
Lois Gibbs found her voice at Love Canal. Thirty years later, in her latest crusade, she has Fortune 500 companies rolling over faster than she can create her hit list.
By Paul Raeburn
In 1978 Lois Gibbs was a 27-year-old housewife with two young children, living in a subdivision in Niagara Falls, New York. Her husband worked in a nearby chemical plant, which emitted an acrid smoke that crept over the homes and lapped at doors and windows. Nobody minded the odor—it was the smell of jobs ...
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Audubon Magazine
‘Okay, You Want to Fight Back?’
Lois Gibbs found her voice at Love Canal. Thirty years later, in her latest crusade, she has Fortune 500 companies rolling over faster than she can create her hit list.
By Paul Raeburn
In 1978 Lois Gibbs was a 27-year-old housewife with two young children, living in a subdivision in Niagara Falls, New York. Her husband worked in a nearby chemical plant, which emitted an acrid smoke that crept over the homes and lapped at doors and windows. Nobody minded the odor—it was the smell of jobs ...
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