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Clean Air ActClean Water ActCERCLA or SuperfundCITESLacey ActFFDCAFIFRACuyahoga River in Ohio caught fire.National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA)First Earth DayEnviornmental Protection Agency (EPA) establishedClean Air Act expanded (established in '63; revised in '65, '70, ''77, '90)FIFRA - Federal Insecticide, fungicide, and rodenticide control act revisedEndangered Species ActOPEC and Oil embargoRoland and Molina (UCI) announce that CFC's are depleting the Ozone layerRCRA (Resource Conservation & Recovery Act)Clean Water ActSurface Mining Control & Reclamation ActLove Canal, NYThree Mile Island Nuclear accidentBhopal IslandChernobyl MeltdownCERCLA/superfund revisedMontreal ProtocolExxon ValdezDesrert Protection ActWorld Poulpulation hits 6 billionKyoto ProtocolGulf of Mexico Oil SpillFukishima Daiichi neuclear disaterWorld population hit 7 billionFifth IPCC report on climate change releasedGeorge Washington Carver (Birth)Paul Hawken (Birth)Charles Darwin (birth)Marjorie Harris Carr (Birth)Ted Turner (Birth)John Muir (Birth)Walden written by Henry David ThoreauGifford Pinchot (Birth)Aldo Leopold (birh)Sierra Club foundedGolden Age of Conservation (Theodore Roosevelt)Golden Age of Conservation (Theodore Roosevelt)US National Park Service foundedCivillian Conservation Corps foundedYosemite plus Sequoia National Park foundedHomestead actYellowstone National Park foundedAmerican Forestry Associatiom foundedFirst National Widlife Refuge establishedTaylor Grazing ActMigratory Bird Hunting Stamp ActFish Plus Widlife Service foundedSilent Spring published by Rachel CarsonWilderness ActWild and Scenic Rivers ActEnergy Policy ActNational Wildlife Refuge System ActSoil Conservation ActSolid Waste Disposal ActOil Pullution ActThe Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA)Toxic Substance Control ActLaw of the Sea Convention (LOSC)Antarctica TreatySoughtout Onyeukpere (birth)Soughtout Turns 6
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