https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuyahoga_River

At least 13 fires have been reported on the Cuyahoga River, the first occurring in 1868.[15] The largest river fire in 1952 caused over $1 million in damage to boats, a bridge, and a riverfront office building.[dead link][16] On June 22, 1969, a river fire captured the attention of Time magazine, which described the Cuyahoga as the river that "oozes rather than flows" and in which a person "does not drown but decays".[17] The fire did eventually spark major changes as well as the article from Time, but in the immediate aftermath very little attention was given to the incident and it was not considered a major news story in the Cleveland media. Furthermore, the conflagration that sparked Time's outrage was in June 1969, but the pictures they displayed on the cover and as part of the article were from the much more dangerous and costly 1952 fire. No pictures of the 1969 fire are known to exist, as local media did not arrive on the scene until after the fire was under control. The 1969 fire caused approximately $50,000 in damage, mostly to an adjacent railroad bridge.[15]
A view of the river from the Ohio and Erie Canal Tow-Path Trail

The 1969 Cuyahoga River fire helped spur an avalanche of water pollution control activities, resulting in the Clean Water Act, Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, and the creation of the federal Environmental Protection Agency and the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (OEPA). As a result, large point sources of pollution on the Cuyahoga have received significant attention from the OEPA in recent decades. These events are referred to in Randy Newman's 1972 song "Burn On," R.E.M.'s 1986 song "Cuyahoga," and Adam Again's 1992 song "River on Fire." Great Lakes Brewing Company of Cleveland named its Burning River Pale Ale after the event.


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Of all the places to push for deregulation environmental laws and eliminate the EPA the shameless GOP picked this river? No sense of history at all.

So good. A picture is worth a thousand words.

that without environmental regulation, this is what happens. Without banking regulations, the banks will rob you blind. Without food and drug regulations, they will poison you or sell you snake oil as a cure for anything. Without gun regulations we would have whackos killing 60 people and wounding 600 at a time, and..... Oh yeah. Sorry about that last one.

Sometimes the words are put together to succinctly convey an important perspective. Thanks, world wide wally.

Tell your "Libertarian" friends that we were a "Libertarian" country until we determined
that without environmental regulation, this is what happens. Without banking regulations, the banks will rob you blind. Without food and drug regulations, they will poison you or sell you snake oil as a cure for anything. Without gun regulations we would have whackos killing 60 people and wounding 600 at a time, and..... Oh yeah. Sorry about that last one.