Vintage Photos Taken By The EPA Reveal What America Looked Like Before Pollution Was Regulated
As the story goes , the chemical - filled Cuyahoga River in Cleveland collapse into flaming on June 22 , 1969 , perchance conflagrate by a glint from a pass train . That hadhappened at least dozen times beforeon the Cuyahoga . Additional fervency were known to blaze upon river in Detroit , Baltimore , Buffalo , and other cities . River fires were far from the only environmental tragedy in the US at the time ....