Planet Waves by Eric Francis

Planet Waves by Eric Francis

What remains of the Love Canal neighborhood, photographed Friday, Sept. 20, 2024

Photos in Niagra Falls, New York, by Eric Francis Coppolino

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Feb 05, 2026
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Love Canal in Niagara Falls, New York, photographed in late 2024 by Eric Francis Coppolino of Planet Waves and Chiron Return, copyright ©2026, all rights reserved.
Still-open 101st Street looking north

Love Canal: Another Look | By Eric Francis Coppolino

In late summer 2023, I made my first return to Love Canal in many years. In that condemned Western New York neighborhood, built on 23,000 tons of chemical and nuclear waste, is where my investigative reporting career began in 1983. My report was called Resettling Lo…

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