“Texas City Disaster”BP Refinery: 2005 The BP oil company, |
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“Santa Barbara Oil Spill”Union Oil: 1969 Offshore blowout pollutes |
“Power in the Pen”1962-1963 Rachel Carson’s Silent |
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“Mountain Warrior”1950s-1980s Harry Caudill, |
“Burn On, Big River…”Cuyahoga River Fires Oil pollution history |
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“Paradise”1971-John Prine Strip mining history in |
“G.E.’s Hot Coal Ad”2005 General Electric’s ‘hot’ |
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“…A Richer Harvest”Union Carbide Ads “Giant hand” pesticide |
“Inferno At Whiting”Standard Oil: 1955 Big refinery near Chicago |
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“Barge Explodes in NY”ExxonMobil Depot A Bouchard oil barge |
“Nader’s Raiders”1968-1974 Ralph Nader’s “swat teams” |
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“G.M. & Ralph Nader”1965-1971 “Unsafe at Any Speed” |
“Oil Fouls Montana”January 2015 Oil pipeline break pollutes |
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“Burning Philadelphia”Refinery Inferno: 1975 Eleven-alarm oil blaze |
“Offshore Oil Blaze”Shell Oil: 1970-71 Oil rig blowout |
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“Disaster at Pittsburgh”Ashland Oil: 1988 Oil tank collapse pollutes |
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Date Posted: 9 May 2015
Last Update: 27 December 2017
Comments to: jdoyle@pophistorydig.com
Article Citation:
Jack Doyle, “Environmental History: Topics Page,”
PopHistoryDig.com, May 9, 2015.
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