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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau was an American author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, and historian. He developed several philosophies about the environment. -
Alice Hamilton
The first woman appointed to the faculty of Harvard University and was a leading expert in the field of occupational health. She was a pioneer in the field of toxicology, studying occupational illnesses and the dangerous effects of industrial metals and chemical compounds on the human body. -
John Muir
John Muir was a Scottish-American naturalist, author, environmental philosopher and early advocate of preservation of wilderness in the United States. -
FDR
The 32nd President of the USA. He created the CCC or the Civilian Conservation Corps. Created many USA National Parks -
G. W. Bush
An American politician and businessman who served as the 43rd President of the United States from 2001 to 2009. In 2002, Bush announced the Clear Skies Act of 2003, aimed at amending the Clean Air Act to reduce air pollution through the use of emissions trading programs. -
Bill Clinton
42nd President of the United States. He signed the North American Wetlands Conservation Act Amendments of 1994. -
Gifford Pinchot
An American forester and politician. Pinchot served as the first Chief of the United States Forest Service from 1905 until his firing in 1910, and was the 28th Governor of Pennsylvania, serving from 1923 to 1927, and again from 1931 to 1935. -
Aldo Leopold
An American author, scientist, ecologist, forester, conservationist, and environmentalist. Leopold was influential in the development of modern environmental ethics and in the movement for wilderness conservation. -
Lois Marie Gibbs
Lois Marie Gibbs is an American environmental activist. Gibbs's involvement in environmental causes began in 1978 when she discovered that her 7-year-old son's elementary school in Niagara Falls, New York was built on a toxic waste dump. -
London Smog
The Great Smog of '52 or Big Smoke was a severe air-pollution event that affected London during December 1952. A period of cold weather, combined with an anticyclone and windless conditions, collected airborne pollutants mostly from the use of coal to form a thick layer of smog over the city. -
Love Canal
From 1942 to 1953 a landfill in the Niagara Falls area known was the love canal, was contaminated by Hooker Chemical and then sold to the city after being covered up by layers of dirt. The city then allowed homes and schools to be built over the landfill and people started to feel the effects of the hazardous waste. -
Rachel Carson
An American marine biologist and conservationist whose book Silent Spring and other writings are credited with advancing the global environmental movement. -
Three Mile Island
A partial nuclear meltdown that occurred on March 28, 1979, in one of the two Three Mile Island nuclear reactors in Pennsylvania. It was the worst accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant history. The incident was rated a five on the seven-point International Nuclear Event Scale. -
Chernobyl
The Chernobyl disaster was a nuclear disaster which occurred on 26 April 1986 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Pripyat, Ukraine. At that time, Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union. The event was the worst accident in the history of nuclear power. -
Exxon Valdez oil spill
A shipping accident that happened off the coast of the United States on March 24, 1989. The accident caused a massive oil spill: 10.8 million U.S. gallons (9.0 million imp gal/41 million L) were spilled into the Prince William Sound. It was one of the worst man-made environmental disasters in the histor -
Romanian Cyanide Spill
A leak of cyanide near Baia Mare, Romania, into the Someş River by the gold mining company Aurul, a joint-venture of the Australian company Esmeralda Exploration and the Romanian government. The polluted waters eventually reached the Tisza and then the Danube, killing large numbers of fish in Hungary and Yugoslavia. The spill has been called the worst environmental disaster in Europe since the Chernobyl disaster. -
Ronald Reagan
He helped prevent a world war that would have destoryed the environment -
Gaylord Nelson
Gaylord Anton Nelson was an American politician from Wisconsin who served as a United States Senator and governor. A Democrat, he was the founder of Earth Day, which launched a new wave of environmental activism. -
TN Valley Coal Ash
A large release of coal fly ash slurry in 2008. Covered up to 300 acres of the surrounding land, damaging homes and flowing up and down stream in nearby waterways such as the Emory River. It was the largest fly ash release in United States history. -
BP Oil Spill
An oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the largest marine oil spill in history.The spill was caused by an oil gusher when the drilling machines exploded on April 20, 2010. The explosion killed 11 workers and hurt 17 more. -
Fukushima nuclear disaster
A series of ongoing equipment failures, reactor meltdowns, and releases of radioactive materials at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. It is the second largest nuclear disaster after Chernobyl. -
Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone
The Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone is a place caused by "excessive nutrient pollution from human activities coupled with other factors that deplete the oxygen required to support most marine life in bottom and near-bottom water. -
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt was an American statesman, author, explorer, soldier, naturalist, and reformer who served as the 26th President of the United States, from 1901 to 1909. Famously said “There can be no greater issue than that of conservation in this country. Just as we must conserve our men, women and children, so we must conserve the resources of the land on which they live.”
