This Day in History: 1983-10-31
Virginia tire fire Seven million tires catch fire on this day in 1983 in a rural town upwind of Washington DC. The incident changed recycling laws.
Timeline, resources & insights
- Home
- About
- 怨 Remembering murdered environmentalists
- Classics of Environmental Literature
- Ben Franklin & water pollution
- The Radium girls
- Ellen Swallow Richards & ‘Home Ecology’
- Gifford Pinchot’s and the Anti-Pollution League
- Mother of the Forest
- Historiography of extinction
- History of Leaded gasoline
- History of Greenpeace
- History of Environmental Journalism
- EH lectures
- EPA history
- References
- Paleotechnic
- Enlightenment
- Industrial
- Progressive
- 20thC
- 21stC
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