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Environmental Disasters
The environmental news wasn’t all good during this period. The country also suffered serious environmental disasters. However, these disasters sometimes helped bring about change.

In 1978, residents of the Love Canal neighborhood of Niagara Falls, New York, learned that they were being poisoned by toxic chemical waste. It had been dumped decades earlier in the uncompleted canal, on which their homes were later built. Many of the residents suffered serious health problems. The neighborhood had to be abandoned. In response to this and similar disasters elsewhere in the country, Congress created what is known as the Superfund. This federal fund helps pay for the cleanup of sites where hazardous waste has been dumped or spilled.

The following year, the United States experienced its worst-ever nuclear power accident. A reactor at Pennsylvania’s Three Mile Island nuclear power station partially melted down. Small amounts of radioactive gases were released into the atmosphere. Roughly 140,000 people had to be temporarily evacuated from the area. The accident led to sweeping changes in the federal government’s regulation of nuclear power plants. It also greatly increased the concern that many Americans felt about nuclear energy. In the following years, construction of new nuclear power plants dropped off sharply because of fierce opposition.

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Resident of Niagra were being poisioned by toxic chemical waste(1 point)
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True