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a book documenting the effect of pesticides, which helped launch the enviromental movement
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created a legal def of wilderness in the us and protected 9 million acres of land. we
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Selected rivers in the United States were perserved for possesing scenic, recreational, geologic, fish and wildlife, historic, cultural, or other similar values.
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A river that caught fire in cleveland ohio
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it set up procedures for the federal government to prepare enviromental assesments
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to raise awareness for earths natural enviroment. celebrated by 175 countires every year
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laws passed bu congress to protect human health and enviornment
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federal insectiside, fungicide, rodenticide
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protected endangered speciaes from going extinct
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roland and molina (uci) announce that CFC's are depleting the ozone layer
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Resource conservation and recovery act
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one for regulating active coal mines and a second for reclaiming abandoned mine lands
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toxic waste leaked into residential houses
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nuclear meltdown on three mile island
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[Comprehensive Enviromental, Response, Compensation, and Liability Act]
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gas and other chemicals from a plant resulted in the exposure of hundreds of thousands of people with a death toll was 2,259
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nuclear accident that spread widley destroying factory reactors killing workers
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Treaty that was open for signature in 1987 which helped protec the ozone layer.
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Ship that gained fame for spilling hundred thosends of crude oil in alsaka.
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act helped manage fuels by adding substitutes for petrolium being used.
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Acknowledged death valley as the part of the national park system
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Growth in population is a danger to deepleting natural resources
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Supposed contributer of helping spread the word of climate change.
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Explosion in deep sea lead to the gushing of oil that lasted about 3 months being one of the biggest marine spills in petrolium history.
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The jump in one billion people compared to a few years back
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obligated indistrialized countrys to lower their pollution in green house gases
