Posts tagged as “forever chemicals”

Location for up to 375 tons of “biosolids” sits within one mile of Grape Creek south of Cliffs In 1969, the Cuyahoga River near Cleveland, Ohio, caught fire. It turned out that the open dumping into the water of factory and city wastes had made the river so polluted that a spark allowed a fire to burn on the surface of the river for thirty minutes. This had happened over a dozen times before, but it was this event that pushed the modern environmental movement into a higher gear, and it prompted President Richard Nixon’s Administration to create the Environmental Protection Agency and the Clean Water Act of 1972. (Featured photo cutline: The Johnson Ranch with the Season Macey Creek streambed running through the pastures…