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Feb. 3, 1958: Silent Spring Seeks Its Voice

1958: Science writer Rachel Carson writes to The New Yorker editor E.B. White suggesting that he write an article about the danger of pesticides. White demurs, but suggests that Carson write the...

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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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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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