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Wittenstein, Barry.
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Oil pollution of rivers, harbors, etc. -- Ohio -- Cuyahoga River -- Juvenile literature.
Environmentalism -- United States -- Juvenile literature.
Earth Day -- Juvenile literature.
Cuyahoga River (Ohio) -- Juvenile literature.
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Wittenstein, Barry.
Oil pollution of rivers, harbors, etc. -- Ohio -- Cuyahoga River -- Juvenile literature.
Environmentalism -- United States -- Juvenile literature.
Earth Day -- Juvenile literature.
Cuyahoga River (Ohio) -- Juvenile literature.
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The day the river caught fire : how the Cuyahoga River exploded and ignited the Earth Day movement / by Barry Wittenstein ; illustrated by Jessie Hartland.
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Wittenstein, Barry.
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2023.
Call #:
363
.7009771
W829d
Subjects
Oil pollution of rivers, harbors, etc. -- Ohio -- Cuyahoga River -- Juvenile literature.
Environmentalism -- United States -- Juvenile literature.
Earth Day -- Juvenile literature.
Cuyahoga River (Ohio) -- Juvenile literature.
ISBN:
9781534480834
1534480838
Alternate title:
How the Cuyahoga River exploded and ignited the Earth Day movement
Edition:
First edition.
Description:
1 volume (unpaged) : color illlustrations, color map ; 23 x 29 cm.
Notes:
"A Paula Wiseman book."
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:
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.
After the Industrial Revolution in the 1880s, the Cayuhoga 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.
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Hartland, Jessie.
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