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Theodore Roosevelt
Some may know President Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt as a well-accomplished politician, veteran, and leader of the Roughriders during the Spanish American War in Cuba, however, he also has been there for a few advances in the field of Environental Science. For example, in 1887, he partnered with the editor of Forest and Streams Magizine to create the Boone and Crockett Club, which helped to defend Yellowstone National Park from being sourced for comerical exploitation -
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Gifford Pinchot
Gifford Pinchot served as the 28th Governor of Pennsylvania for two terms, NOT back-to-back. His terms were 1923-1927 and 1931-1935. He was a Republican, and a member of the Progressive Party for a brief period of time. Pinchot reformed managament and protection if U.S. Forests. It was his service as a leader to maintain use of forestry and other natural resources, and ensure they're used in sustainable matters. Gifford Pinchot State Park in Lewisberry, PA is named after him. -
Yellowstone National Park is founded
Yellowstone National Park was founded on March 1st, 1872 by President Ulysses S. Grant. Yellowstone's geographical location spans three states: Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho. However, the primary location of it's majestic landscapes and beautiful hot springs, geysers, rivers, and lakes are in Wyoming. This was the very first National Park in the United States, and neighbors Grand Teton National Park. While Yellowstone was officially formed in 1872, it has well over 11,000 years of history. -
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
President Franklin D. Roosevelt is world renowned for being able to help pull the United States out of The Great Depression. Also, he passed an important piece of legislation that is called the "Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act." More information on this act can be found further down this timeline. -
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Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter is STILL alive, for the record. The timeline requires an end date, which is untrue in the case for Jimmy Carter's life!
While in office, in 1977, Carter declared that the energey crisis in the United States was equivelant to that of war. One of the things he did was install solar panels on the White House. Carter' successor, President Ronald Reagan, removed the solar panels when he was first elected the next President. -
Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp Act
Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp Act, now known as the Federal Duck Stamp, is a mandatory adhesive stamp that must be used in order to hunt migratory birds, such as Ducks and Geese. It was passed by President Hoover, but it lacked a long-term source of money to fund the act. -
Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act
Passed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt near the end of The Great Depression, this law incorporates several other laws and acts in order to maintain proper handling and sanitation of foods, drugs, and cosmetics consumed by American citizens. Eventutally, the Electronic Radiation Protection was added in 1968. -
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Al Gore
Al Gore is NOT dead!
He served as Vice President when Bill Clinton was in office. Gore founded the Alliance for Climate Protection in 2006, and still serves as the chair today. The alliance is designed to educate and advocate the importance of climate change. Joined with the Climate Reality Project, it hosts a 24-hour rally each year called "24 Hours of Reality," and has also launched a social media site called "Reality Drop." -
The Clean Air Act
The Clean Air Act of 1963 was designed to place limitations on air pollution in the United States. Air pollution is a major issue in the world of Environmental Science all over the world, and can be caused by such things, like factories, cars, and of course, Cows. -
Cuyahoga River Fire
This was actually one of thirteen fires on the Cuyahoga River in Ohio. When it happened, no one knew, let alone understood, why the river was burning. It was supected to be because of oil in the water that was the fuel for the fire. After being examined, it turned out that it was oil and debris that had been moving through the water near Cleveland was causing the fire. -
OSHA
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration, otherwise known as "OSHA," was created around the New Years of 1970 going into 1971. The goal of this government agency is to provide all employees and workers with a safe working environment and makes standards for procedure. Many of OSHA's fundamentals reflects those of the second Industrial Revolution (the "Gilded Age") in the 1890's and early 1900's through early 1910's. -
The Clean Water Act Passed
The Clean Water Act had been through quite the process just to get to the point where it became a law. It was vetoed, sent back to Congress, and the entire process of the bill's creation took several years before a final unanimous vote allowed it to be passed and become an official law. -
T.M.I. (Three Mile Island) Nuclear Powerplant Meltdown
All citizens who live in South Central Pennsylvania should be very familiar with Three Mile Island. Aside from the fact that it's on the Susquehanna River in-between Harrisburg and the Brunner Island Coal Power Plant near York Haven, it's the location of one of the worst Nuclear Power Plant Disasters in Modern World History. The meltdown of March 28th, 1979 is why only two of the four massive smokestacks actually funtion. -
Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Meltdown
Three Mile Island is the worst Nuclear Power Plant incident in the United States. Chernobyl is the worst Nuclear Power Plant incident in the World! This Ukranian Nuclear Power Plant experienced a fatal meltdown on April 26th, 1986 that had massive impacts all around Ukraine, and other countries that border with Ukraine and the Baltic Sea. Countries such as Finland and Russia experienced issues with the toxic fumes being dispersed from the plant hundreds to thousands of miles away. -
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BP Gulf Coast Oil Spill
Also known as the "Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill," this eighty-four day epidemic takes the cake as one of the most horiffic disasters along the Gulf Coast of the United States. During the entire time the event was taking place, millions of gallons of oil was spilled into the Gulf of Mexico, and there was a ton of marine life that was lost. Nearly five years later, BP experienced yet another oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
