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Henry David Thoreau
Best know for his book Walden about simple living in natural surrounding.
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." Facts -
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John Muir
Was admidered during his time for his onesness with nature and also helped to save The Yosmite valley national park.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Creadted US Forset Service 5 national parks and many of enviromental things
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Gilford Pinchot
Cheif of the Division of Forestry
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FDR
32nd president of the US and created the CCC and soil conservation. -
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Aldo Leopold
Fought to get the American Game Policy adopted by the US government.
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Ronald Regan
BLocked a 4 lane highway project in the sierra nevada moutains and enlearged 2 nature reseves. Also saved 2 rivers from have dams bulit on them.
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Richard Nixon
Created the EPA, Endangered Speicies Act, and the Drinking water act.
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Gaylord Nelson
Gaylord Nelson was the founder of earth day.
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The Shrinking Aral Sea
Started shrinking when farmers blocked Syr Darya and Amu Darya rivers to for irragation.
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Love Canal
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Rachel Carson
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Jimmy Carter
Reserved 104 million acres for national parks in alaska also installed 39 solar panels on the whit house roof.
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Bill Clinton
Created the Water Reasoucres act in 1993 and protected natural reasources in the lake tahoe region.
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Lois Gibbs
Led her community to battle against the Love Canal crisis.
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London Smog
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Cuyahoga River Fire
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Toxic Brown Clouds
Spotted in china from the late 1990's to present
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TN Valley Coal Ash spill
An 84 acre coal ash dike ruptured spilling up to six feet of sludge in some areas.
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BP Oil Spill
An oil rig exploed spilling 1.84 million gallons of oil into the gukf of mexico and killing 11 people. -
Fukushima
A double earthquake and two tusnamis hit the miyagi prefecture. The reactors exploded due to leaking hydrogen reacting with oxygen in the air.
