Five of the six candidates running in this year’s Democratic primary for Niagara Falls City Council conceded this week that they know little to nothing about a widely reported community ...

Goodyear Niagara Falls is emitting a cancer-causing chemical, ortho-toluidine, at up to seven times the current standard. It's a plume that hovers above Niagara Falls and stretches into the community.

Ortho-toluidine has been directly linked to an increased risk of bladder cancer. In January, Goodyear agreed to reduce emissions of this hazardous chemical by a factor of three, with a commitment ...

Goodyear Niagara Falls is making immediate changes to how much of a cancer-causing chemical it is emitting in the surrounding community. Emissions of ortho-toluidine, linked to bladder cancer in ...

Members at the meeting said in 2023 that Goodyear reported it released over 1,200 pounds of ortho-toluidine on nearly 4,000 residents within two. The DEC’s recommended limit would be 100 pounds.

Internationally, ortho-toluidine has been classified as a “known carcinogen” since 2008, with the United States’ National Institutes of Health declaring the substance carcinogenic in 2014.

Goodyear’s Niagara Falls facility produces low levels of ortho-toluidine emissions and is in full compliance with its current permit. That current permit is decades old.