Dirty Water: Federal Deregulation and the Re-Polluting of America
… polluted Cuyahoga Valley. The previous morning, June 22, a fire on the river had burned two low bridges and startled the long-polluted city. The Cuyahoga had caught fire more than a dozen times before, but not in many years, … simply could not clean the river on its own. A 1952 fire on the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland, Ohio ( left ). …