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The toxic tale of the Love Canal fail

The toxic tale of the Love Canal fail

FromSpectacular Failures


The toxic tale of the Love Canal fail

FromSpectacular Failures

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Length:
40 minutes
Released:
Aug 24, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

When Hooker Chemical sold its infamous toxic waste landfill to the Niagara Falls School Board, the $1 deal left Niagara residents seriously ill. But few believed the company could truly be at fault...until it was too late.
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Released:
Aug 24, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (25)

Corporate crookedness. Family feuding. Hilariously half-baked decisions. Host Lauren Ober tackles some of the most spectacular business failures of all time, and what could have been done to avoid them. Some of these stories are shocking. Some are funny. Some are just downright sad. But each one will give you a totally new perspective on big business… and big failure. From American Public Media.