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The Cuyahoga Fire and the 1972 Veto Override That Made the Clean Water Act A small fire on an oily Cleveland river in 1969 became a national symbol, and three years later Congress overrode President Nixon's veto by huge bipartisan margins to pass the Clean Water Act. Warren County, 1982, and the Protest That Named Environmental Racism In 1982, residents of a mostly Black county in North Carolina lay down in front of trucks carrying PCB-laced soil. How their protest gave a movement its name and its first national evidence. Who Pays to Clean Up Superfund Sites, and Why the Polluter Tax Lapsed Superfund's taxes on oil and chemical companies expired in 1995, shifting toxic cleanup costs to taxpayers for a generation. How Congress brought them back. Why an 85-Mile Stretch of the Mississippi Became Known as Cancer Alley How the river towns between Baton Rouge and New Orleans filled with chemical plants, why a 2023 federal lawsuit over one of them was dropped, and what residents still want.