That progress is tied to the legacy of the 1969 Cuyahoga River fire, one of the most notorious pollution disasters in U.S. history. After years of industrial waste buildup, an oil slick near the ...
WILLIAMSTOWN — Thomas Jorling helped draft two of the nation’s cornerstone environmental laws — the Clean Air Act of 1970 and the Clean Water Act of 1972. Now 85 and a longtime Williamstown resident ...
When Ohio's Cuyahoga River literally caught fire in 1969, it forced a reckoning that changed federal law forever. Five decades later, scientists returning to those same waterways found something that ...
On November 17, the Trump Administration’s Environmental Protection Agency and its Army Corps of Engineers issued a new rule that leading conservation groups say will gut the landmark Clean Water Act ...