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Hooker Chemical Company (or Hooker Electrochemical Company) was an American firm producing chloralkali products from 1903 to 1968. In 1922, bought the S. Wander & Sons Company to sell lye and chlorinated lime.
Apr 11, 2024 · Beginning in the 1940s, Hooker Electrochemical Company, one of the giants of Niagara Falls industry, began dumping into the abandoned canal; over the next decade, Hooker deposited almost...
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Apr 18, 2024 · For a decade beginning in the 1940s, Hooker Chemical Company, one of the titans of Niagara Falls industry, had buried its industrial byproducts in the abandoned canal at the center of the...
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During the 1940s, the canal was purchased by Hooker Chemical Company, which used the site to dump 19,800 t (19,500 long tons; 21,800 short tons) of chemical byproducts from the manufacturing of dyes, perfumes, and solvents for rubber and synthetic resins.
Jun 12, 2023 · The former Occidental Chemical Corp. plant, originally Hooker Chemical Company, looming behind homes in Niagara Falls. Hooker was the source of one of the biggest environmental disasters in...
Aug 16, 2016 · In one of largest environmental complaints ever lodged by the Federal government against a major corporation, the Environmental Protection Agency announced today that the Department of Justice -- acting on behalf of EPA -- has filed four suits against Hooker Chemical Co., and its parent corporation, Occidental Petroleum Corporation, requesting ...
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Apr 19, 2024 · Founded in 1903 in Rochester, New York, the Hooker Chemical and Plastics Corporation disposed of some 20,000 tons of toxic waste at Love Canal between 1942 and 1952.
