The Cuyahoga River's Last Fires

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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History, Society & Culture

4.2 • 23.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2017

⏱️ 30 minutes

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In 1969, the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland, Ohio caught fire, not for the first time, but for the last time. This event is often credited with helping pass the Clean Water Act and inspire the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency.

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0:30.7	Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class from Howstupworks.com.
0:42.7	Hello and welcome to the podcast. I'm Tracy V. Wilson.
0:46.7	And I'm Holly Fry.
0:48.7	Today we are going to talk about an event that became a really huge symbol
0:52.7	in the environmental movement. And it's often credited with helping to pass
0:56.7	the Clean Water Act and inspire the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency.
1:01.7	But like a lot of the things that we talk about on the show,
1:04.7	the actual story is way more complicated than that.
1:07.7	And the whole thing is often portrayed in a way that has a lot of inaccuracies.
1:12.7	In 1969, the Chaihoge River and Cleveland, Ohio, caught fire.
1:18.7	This was not for the first time. It was in fact for the last time.
1:22.7	But for the people who have heard of this fire, the image that probably came to your mind
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