“Valley of the Drums”
…and Superfund, 1970s-2020s
[…] This story uses two notorious toxic chemical waste sites – one in Kentucky, known as, “Valley of the Drums,” and another in New York, named Love Canal – as examples and introduction to the larger story of toxic waste dumping that surfaced in the U.S. in the late 1970s as a major national environmental & public health issue… These and other examples – including exploding toxic waste dumps, newspaper headlines, an ABC-TV special, investigative books, photos & others sources – are used to explore how the nation’s Superfund law (for addressing more than 40,000 toxic waste sites) took form at the behest of angry citizens, the battle in Congress, and its signing into law by President Carter in December 1980. Related film and book sources are also listed with live links […]