Topic: Cuyahoga River
40 years after first Earth Day, air and water look cleaner, but unseen problems worsenPollution before the first Earth Day was not only visible, it was in your face: Cleveland's Cuyahoga River caught fire. An oil spill fouled 30 miles of Southern ...
Ohio is the heart of the Industrial Midwest, and America?s bellwether state, rocked in recent years by the collapse of the U.S. manufacturing sector. Auto salvage and recycling are big business here, and with labor unions?a major power in the state?now onboard ...
In 1989, the Exxon Valdez spilled more than 10 million gallons of crude oil into the sea. Twenty years earlier, in 1969, the Cuyahoga River proved so thick with pollutants that it caught fire, sending oily black smoke billowing into the sky ...
In 1969, Ohio's garbage- and oil-laden Cuyahoga River was so polluted it caught fire. For instance, in the past decade, there has been a 45% reduction in cancer risk in California, due in part to the decrease in air and water pollutants, ...
Indiana Refinery's Permit Dispute Shows Uncertainty Lingers in U.S. Water Protection EffortsThe images of oil and debris burning in Cleveland's Cuyahoga River in 1969 still stand as an iconic symbol of modern-day industrial pollution.Subsequent demands for environmental protection led to passage in ...
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Cuyahoga River Pollution Ohio 1967
I grew up in Akron, Ohio on the Cuyahoga River ...2010-03-21 -
Cuyahoga River Restoration
WFN Green examines the 40-plus years of clean up the ...2010-01-27 -
The Cuyahoga River Fire: "Don't ...
Tim Donovan recalls working on the Cuyahoga River the day ...2010-08-06
