Ep.02: 1960s fish kill was our own ’Silent Spring’
Mar 11, 2020•16 min
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Episode description
One of the most spectacular fish kills in history hit the Colorado River in 1961 was traced to an East Austin “insect powder” factory. Green activist Rachel Carson told the basic story in “Silent Spring,” but it has been lost to popular memory even as Austin became an environmental mecca. Until now.
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