Mother of the Superfund

1978 started the Love Canal Parents Movement; was a primary organizer of the Love Canal Homeowners Association who brought wide public attention to the environmental crisis in Love Canal; her actions resulted in the evacuation of 833 families; founded the non-profit Clearinghouse for Hazardous Waste in 1981 to help train and support local activists with their environmental work which was subsequently renamed the Center for Health, Environment, and Justice (CHEJ); has authored several books about the Love Canal story and the effects of toxic waste with the most quoted being "Love Canal. My story" written with Murray Levine and published in 1982 & 2 others-"Dying from Dioxin" (1995) & "Love Canal The Story Continues" (1998); her story was dramatized in the 1982 made-for-TV movie Lois Gibbs: the Love Canal Story, in which she was played by Marsha Mason*

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Environmental Activism

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