Which of the following eventually resulted in niagara falls’ love canal neighborhood being declared a federal emergency in 1978? a. oil drilling in the area had destroyed its ecosystem. b. a neighborhood there had been built over a toxic dump. c. a large amount of iron, zinc, and lead mining had poisoned the water supply. d. there had been an accident at a nearby nuclear power plant.

In 1978, Love Canal, located near Niagara Falls in upstate New York, was a nice little working-class enclave with hundreds of houses and a school. It just happened to sit atop 21,000 tons of toxic industrial waste that had been buried underground in the 1940s and '50s by a local company.

answer: a.letter a . . letter "correct answer"

b.letter c . . letter b "not b'

c.letter a . . letter b

d.letter b . . letter a

explanation: