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For starters, it was a woman, Rachel Carson, who ignited the modem environmental movement with her 1962 book, Silent Spring, which brought widespread attention to problems with pesticides. The book led to a U.S. ban of the pesticide DDT, spurred the founding of several influential environmental groups and helped blaze the trail for passage of the nation’s bedrock environmental laws in the early 1970s.
And it was Lois Gibbs who in 1978 pressured New York authorities to evacuate and clean up Love Canal, a chemical-dump-tumed-housing-devel- cal-dump-tumed-housing-development suffering from high incidences of birth defects and cancer. Gibbs also lobbied Congress to pass “Superfund” laws mandating cleanup of similar sites. Tbday she runs the Center for Health, Environment & Justice
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