“Deepwater Horizon”Film & Spill: 2010-2016 BP oil rig disaster film; |
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“Giant Shovel on I-70″Ohio Fight: 1973 Shovel’s highway crossing |
“Power in the Pen”1962-1963 Rachel Carson’s Silent |
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“Mountain Warrior”1950s-1980s Harry Caudill, |
“Texas City Disaster”BP Refinery: 2005 The BP oil company, |
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“Santa Barbara Oil Spill”Union Oil: 1969 Offshore blowout pollutes |
“Burn On, Big River…”Cuyahoga River Fires Oil pollution history |
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“Paradise”1971-John Prine Strip mining history in |
“Shell Plant Explodes”1994: Belpre, Ohio Shell plastics plant explodes; |
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“Coal & The Kennedys”1960s-2010s JFK, RFK, Ted, Caroline |
“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 |
“The Phillips Explosion”23 Dead, 130 Injured Following Wall Street stock |
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“Plastic Infernos”A Short History Plastic materials implicated |
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Date Posted: 9 May 2015
Last Update: 10 September 2019
Comments to: jdoyle@pophistorydig.com
Article Citation:
Jack Doyle, “Environmental History: Selected Stories, 1950s-2010s”
PopHistoryDig.com, May 9, 2015.
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