Gibbs, Lois

Gibbs, Lois. Love Canal My Story. Albany State University of New York Press, 1982. 

Policymakers can read stories of real people who face this risk of marginalization due to the brutal effects of everyday toxicant exposures, and take the experience of these people into their policymaking. Famous Love Canal environmentalist Lois Gibbs says Pollution begins in the boardroom. ... 

The EPA "chromosome" debacle so inflamed the local residents that they kept two EPA officials hostage for several hours. Lois Gibbs, the president of the Homeowner s Association, indicated that "this action was a direct result of the study being released with nobody to tell us what it meant or what they were going to do about it If the EPA officials had been let out the front door, they would have been torn apart. " Love Canal Residents Under Stress, Vol. 208, Science, June 13, 1980, at p. 1242. 

One of the leaders of the Love Canal protest was a housewife named Lois Gibbs, who subsequently moved to northern Virginia to establish the Citizens Clearinghouse for Hazardous Waste (since renamed the Center for Health, Environment and Justice), to advise other communities afflicted by toxic wastes. Over the next decade, the dimensions of the chemical waste problem began to emerge and thousands of local groups formed to advocate for the cleanup of contaminated local lands. This toxics movement eventually encompassed many thousands of local groups in all 50 states. 

The young stellar object W33A which is deeply hidden protostar was studied in the wavelength range 2.4-25 pm. The spectrum displays deep H2O ice absorptions centered at 3.0 pm. A value for the H2O ice column density could be derived N(H20) = (1.1 0.3) X lOi cm-2 (Gibb et al., 2000 [139]). 

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