1969: The Cuyahoga River catches fire near Cleveland, Ohio. Unrestricted dumping of waste by local industries, leaving the river clotted with oil and other combustible effluent, is blamed. Actually, the famous fire (famous mainly because Time magazine gave it big play nationwide) was simply the latest in a series of conflagrations that plagued the river […]
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