One of Ours

Last week, the Environmental Protection Agency announced that it was proposing to remove Love Canal from its Superfund list, the federal roster of the most contaminated toxic waste sites in the country...Delisting Love Canal is a way of saying that the area is clean, the event over, history done, though the agency has promised to monitor the site and intervene with additional cleanup if necessary...It should be made a kind of national historic toxic waste site, a reminder of just what can go wrong — and what can go right — when corporate, governmental and community interests collide...