• Cuyahoga Fires

  • Dec 25 2021
  • Length: 22 mins
  • Podcast

  • Summary

  • 1969 Cuyahoga River FireMake sure to follow the podcast on instagram and twitter @eng_misjudgment for pictures for each episode.Sources:Bella, L. L. (2009). Not enough to drink: Pollution, drought, and tainted water supplies. Rosen Pub. Black history month: Defining environmental justice. Conservancy for Cuyahoga Valley National Park. (2020, February 13). Retrieved December 22, 2021, from https://www.conservancyforcvnp.org/defining-environmental-justice-how-the-conservancy-and-the-local-community-are-continuing-carl-stokes-legacy/Bobkoff, D. (2009, June 22). Ohio's burning river in better health 40 years later. NPR. Retrieved December 22, 2021, from https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=105750930 Brueck, H. (2019, June 22). The Cuyahoga River caught fire 50 years ago. these stomach-churning photos highlight why the EPA exists. Business Insider. Retrieved December 22, 2021, from https://www.businessinsider.com/vintage-photos-of-cuyahoga-river-on-fire-before-epa-2019-6#as-president-ronald-reagan-put-it-in-his-1984-state-of-the-union-address-preservation-of-our-environment-is-not-a-liberal-or-conservative-challenge-its-common-sense-24 CUYAHOGA RIVER FIRE. Encyclopedia of Cleveland History | Case Western Reserve University. (2020, January 14). Retrieved December 21, 2021, from https://case.edu/ech/articles/c/cuyahoga-river-fire Emily Bamforth. (2019, June 19). A Cuyahoga River timeline, from Moses Cleaveland to blazing paddles. Cleveland. Retrieved December 22, 2021, from https://www.cleveland.com/life-and-culture/g66l-2019/06/b156c67fed368/a-cuyahoga-river-timeline-from-moses-cleaveland-to-blazing-paddles.html Guerrieri Vince Guerrieri is a writer based in the Cleveland area., V. (2019, June 28). Smoke on the water: What we can learn 50 years after Cleveland's apocalyptic burning river. Popular Mechanics. Retrieved December 22, 2021, from https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a28106182/cuyahoga-river-fire-cleveland-epa/ Hogue, C. (2019, June 17). POLLUTION Marking 50 years since the Cuyahoga River fire, which sparked US environmental action. C&EN. Retrieved December 22, 2021, from https://cen.acs.org/environment/pollution/Marking-50-years-since-Cuyahoga/97/i24 Johnston, L. (2018, October 1). Cuyahoga River Partners Creating Water Trail. Cleveland. Retrieved December 22, 2021, from https://www.cleveland.com/metro/2018/10/cuyahoga_river_water_trail.html Johnston, L. (2019, June 16). Cuyahoga River transforms from open sewer to paddlers' paradise: Cuyahoga50 by the numbers. Cleveland. Retrieved December 22, 2021, from https://www.cleveland.com/news/2019/06/cuyahoga-river-transforms-from-open-sewer-to-paddlers-paradise-cuyahoga50-by-the-numbers.html Libretexts. (2020, August 15). Unusual properties of water. Chemistry LibreTexts. Retrieved December 22, 2021, from https://chem.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Physical_and_Theoretical_Chemistry_Textbook_Maps/Supplemental_Modules_(Physical_and_Theoretical_Chemistry)/Physical_Properties_of_Matter/States_of_Matter/Properties_of_Liquids/Unusual_Properties_of_Water Maher, N. M. (2019, June 22). How many times does a river have to burn before it matters? The New York Times. Retrieved December 22, 2021, from https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/22/climate/cleveland-fire-river-cuyahoga-1969.html Miller, E. (2021, March 26). Fact-checking five myths of the 1969 fire on the Cuyahoga River. WOSU News. Retrieved December 22, 2021, from https://news.wosu.org/ideastream/2019-01-22/fact-checking-five-myths-of-the-1969-fire-on-the-cuyahoga-river#stream/0 Ohio History Central. (n.d.). Cuyahoga River Fire. Retrieved December 22, 2021, from http://ohiohistorycentral.org/w/Cuyahoga_River_Fire Rotman, M. (n.d.). Cuyahoga River Fire. Cleveland Historical. Retrieved December 22, 2021, from https://clevelandhistorical.org/items/show/63 Smithsonian Institution. (2019, June 19). The Cuyahoga River caught fire at least a dozen times, but no one cared until 1969. Smithsonian.com. Retrieved December 22, 2021, from https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/cuyahoga-river-caught-fire-least-dozen-times-no-one-cared-until-1969-180972444/ U.S. Department of the Interior. (n.d.). Carl B. Stokes and the 1969 river fire . National Parks Service. Retrieved December 22, 2021, from https://www.nps.gov/articles/carl-stokes-and-the-river-fire.htm U.S. Department of the Interior. (n.d.). Carl B. stokes: Ground-breaking Cleveland mayor. National Parks Service. Retrieved December 22, 2021, from https://www.nps.gov/people/carl-b-stokes.htm U.S. Department of the Interior. (n.d.). Exploring Black History in Cuyahoga Valley . National Parks Service. Retrieved December 22, 2021, from https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/exploring-black-history-in-cuyahoga-valley.htm U.S. National Library of Medicine. (n.d.). Water. National Center for Biotechnology Information. PubChem Compound Database. Retrieved December 22, 2021, from https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Water Water ...
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