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Oct. 26, 1948: Death Cloud Envelops Pennsylvania Mill Town
An inversion layer settles over the rust belt town of Donora, Pennsylvania, trapping industrial pollution in the atmosphere. When it clears six days later, 20 people are dead, another 50 are dying and...
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April 22, 1970: Tell Your Mother You Love Her
1970: Mother Earth finally gets her due with the celebration of the first Earth Day. Historians regard this as the public launch of the modern environmental movement. In the unslakable thirst for...
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June 22, 1969: Umm, the Cuyahoga River’s on Fire … Again
1969: The Cuyahoga River catches fire near Cleveland, Ohio. Unrestricted dumping of waste by local industries, leaving the river clotted with oil and other combustible effluent, is blamed. Actually,...
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July 18, 1876: Royal Commissioners Wrinkle Their Noses
The British government appoints a Royal Commission on Noxious Vapours to look into the growing problem of industrial air pollution. Its report two years later would bring better regulation but warn...
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Nov. 21, 1968: Love Canal Calamity Surfaces
Karen Schroeder, a second-generation resident of the Love Canal neighborhood of Buffalo, New York, gives birth to an infant girl with multiple birth defects. The enormity of the neighborhood's...
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