Environmental Science Timeline - Colter Huff
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Updated: 10 Apr 2018
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Created byColter Huff
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John Muir was born.Agricultural RevolutionWalden by Henry David ThoreauHomestead ActYellowstone National Park FoundedAmerican Forestry Association FoundedYosemite + Sequoia National Park FoundedGeneral Revision ActSierra Club FoundedLacey ActFirst National Wildlife Refuge EstablishedU.S. Forest Service FoundedGifford PinchotAldo LeopoldAudubon Society FoundedAntiquities ActCongress was upset because Roosevelt was waving so much forest land so they banned further withdrawals.U.S. National Park service foundedCivilian Conservation Corps FoundedSoil Conservation Service FoundedTaylor Grazing ActMigratory Bird Hunting Stamp ActFish plus Wildlife Service foundedThe Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Control Act (FIFRA)"Silent Spring" published by Rachel CarsonWilderness ActWild and Scenic Rivers ActCuyahoga River in Clevelend, Ohio, caught fireNEPA (National Environmental Policy Act)First Earth DayEPA (Environmental Protection Agency) established Clean Air ActEndangered Species ActOPEC Oil EmbargoOPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) Oil EmbargoRoland and Molina (UCI) announce that CFCs are are depleteing the ozone layerRCRA (Resource Conservation and Recovery Act)Clean Water ActSurface Mining Control and Reclamation ActToxic waste leaks into residential homes in Love Canal, New York3 Mile Island Nuclear accidentAlaskan Lands ActCERCLA (Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act [ also known as Super-Fund])* Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India (chemical toxic cloud kills 2,000)* Chernobyl accident* Montreal Protocol* Exxon ValdezEnergy Policy Act of 1992* Desert Protecion ActWorld population hits 6 billionPeriods
Golden Age of Conservation (Theodore Roosevelt)Dust Bowl* Kyoto Protocol
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