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- The Cuyahoga River Caught Fire at Least a Dozen Times, but No One Cared . . .
To the surprise of no one who worked on the Cuyahoga, an oil slick on the river caught fire the morning of Sunday, June 22, 1969 The blaze only lasted about 30 minutes, extinguished by
- Cuyahoga River - Wikipedia
In 1969 the Cuyahoga River fire, along with the Santa Barbara oil spill earlier that year, helped spur an avalanche of water pollution control activities, resulting in amendments extending the Clean Water Act, Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, and the creation of the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Ohio Environmental
- The 1969 Cuyahoga River Fire - U. S. National Park Service
Stories about the 1969 Cuyahoga River fire often combine fact and myth People generally agree about what occurred on and immediately after June 22, 1969 Myth enters the stories when people describe the fire as a primary cause of major milestones in the environmental movement
- The Shocking River Fire That Fueled the Creation of the EPA
Though the Cuyahoga River fire did not directly lead to the formation of the EPA, it was an important landmark for a burgeoning environmental movement Today, the river is no longer stagnant
- Cuyahoga River Fire - The Blaze That Started a National Discussion . . .
Yes, an oil slick on the Cuyahoga River - polluted from decades of industrial waste - caught fire on a Sunday morning in June 1969 near the Republic Steel mill, causing about $100,000 worth of damage to two railroad bridges Initially the fire drew little attention, either locally or nationally
- Environmentalism History: The Importance of Clevelands Cuyahoga River . . .
On this day, June 22, in 1969, the Cuyahoga River burst into flames in Cleveland when sparks from a passing train set fire to oil-soaked debris floating on the water’s surface
- How The Cuyahoga River Fire Of 1969 Changed America - All Thats . . .
On the morning of Sunday, June 22, 1969, Cleveland's Cuyahoga River caught fire after an oil slick on the water was ignited by sparks from a passing train The terrifying flames quickly spread across the stream — and reached as high as five stories
- The River Caught Fire: The Cuyahoga River Fire of 1969
On June 22, 1969, an oil slick caught fire on the Cuyahoga River just southeast of downtown Cleveland, Ohio The image that the "the river caught fire" motivated change to protect the environment However, this was in fact the thirteenth recorded time that the river had caught fire since 1868
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