The Cuyahoga River caught fire 50 years ago. These stomach-churning photos highlight why the EPA exists.

"So in 1970, President Richard Nixon proposed creating the EPA. "We still think of air as free. But clean air is not free, and neither is clean water," Nixon said in his 1970 State of the Union address. "The price tag on pollution control is high. Through our years of past carelessness we incurred a debt to nature, and now that debt is being called."" (jn) http://ow.ly/Swx550wSDnJ
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