Crooked River

A photo of the Cuyahoga River in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park. Photo courtesy Wikipedia.

NRDC, Natural Resources Defense Council, sent an alert yesterday that Newt Gingrich is launching an attack on the EPA and the Clean Water Act. Had to take action, after all, I'm from Summit County, Ohio; the Cuyahoga River runs through my town, runs through Cuyahoga Falls, the town next door where my mother grew up. You might remember the story of a river catching fire. That was the Cuyahoga, on its way through Cleveland. It was 1969, June 23. That fire actually saved the Cuyahoga's life because a horrified and scandalized citizenry demanded that the environment and the waters of this country be protected: the EPA and the Clean Water Act resulted from the Cuyahoga's misfortune.
Speaker of the House, John Boehner, pal of Newt Gingrich, is from Ohio. I reminded Representative Boehner in an email that Ohio, pre-EPA, was the poster child for water pollution in this country. I'll post his response.