Sentences with phrase «rivers catching on fire»

Republican President Theodore Roosevelt, for instance, launched the conservation movement early in the last century, and, responding to cough - inducing smog and rivers catching on fire, President Richard Nixon signed the landmark Clean Air and Clean Water Acts and established the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

But the day after Cleveland's Cuyahoga River caught on fire in 1969, no article in The Cleveland Plain Dealer commented that «the cause was uncertain, because rivers periodically catch on fire from natural causes.»

Not exact matches

Erected in 1906, it commemorates the thousand lives lost, most of them women and children from German immigrant families on an early - summer outing, when the steamer General Slocum caught fire and sank in the East River.

However, Legislator Moroney won't be available to help on that one — he lives in Pearl River and caught his pants on fire when he tried to push that moronic proposal through the legislature in a previous reincarnation of the Brega Transport Company's business troubles.

In the late 1960s, the recurrent phenomenon of stretches of the Cuyahoga River in Ohio catching fire from a combination of oil, chemicals, and combustible materials floating on the water's surface caught the attention of a more environmentally aware public.

Afterwards, take a walk down Southbank by the river, check out up and coming skateboarders under the bridge and if you're lucky you might even catch fire jugglers and hula hoopers perfecting their art on the sands of the Thames.

VIOLENCE / GORE 4 - Animals fight a major battle with wolves on a ship, using all types of weapons and Kung Fu, other ships are piled together to block a river from a large ship that breaks through with cannon fire and flames, swords, flaming arrows and spears flash and wolves and other animals are punched unconscious; a panda catches a swung axe blade between the flattened palms of his hands without harm, a praying mantis rubs two hands together over a powder keg, his hands explode and it laughs, and we see one group of animals floating on debris in the river, tired out, while a panda deflects many fireballs shot from the ship's cannon.

Air is for the most part O.K. and our lakes and rivers are thriving — or at least they're not catching on fire anymore.

do not get me wrong ------ I do believe that we should care for out planet ------ as it is the only one that we have ---- but at the same time ---- keep things in balance ------ we have come a long ways from the 60's were a river in Chicago caught on fire ---- how do you put out a fire with water when it is the river that is burning ------ major industries have upgraded their processes ---- control their waste output ------ America has done lots to improve our planet ---- now we have to look at other countries and work to help them ------ guide them ------ as they are starting to realize that damage that they are doing to them selves and the world ------

We've seen them in the past — remember when it wasn't all that uncommon for a river to catch on fire?