The day the River Caught Fire : : how the Cuyahoga River Exploded and Ignited the Earth Day Movement
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"A Paula Wiseman book."
"The true story of how a 1969 fire in one of the most polluted rivers in America helped foster awareness of water pollution and how the river's fate contributed to the environmental movement"-- Provided by publisher.
"After the Industrial Revolution in the 1880s, the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland, Ohio, caught fire almost twenty times, earning Cleveland the nickname "The Mistake on the Lake." Waste dumping had made fires so routine that local politicians and media didn't pay them any mind, and other Cleveland residents laughed off their combustible river and even wrote songs about it. But when the river ignited again in June 1969, the national media picked up on the story and added fuel to the fire of the recent environmental movement. A year later, in 1970, President Nixon created the Environmental Protection Agency--leading to the Clean Water and Clean Air Acts--and the first Earth Day was celebrated. It was a celebration, it was a protest, and it was the beginning of a movement to save our planet." -- Amazon.com.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, [2023]
Year Published: 2023
Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illlustrations, color map ; 23 x 29 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781534480834
1534480838
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Hartland, Jessie,
SUBJECTS
Oil pollution of rivers, harbors, etc. -- Cuyahoga River.
Environmentalism -- United States.
Earth Day.
Cuyahoga River (Ohio)