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Environmental Dates
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National Park Service Act
Established US national park service -
Bald Eagle Protection Act
Protects two species of eagle. -
Public Health Service Act
Consolidated and revised substantially all existing legislation relating to the public health service. -
Antaractic Treaty System
Establish Antarctica as a scientific preserve thus creating freedom of scientif investigation and no military advancement. -
Clean Air Act
Designed to control air pollution on a national level, requires EPA to develop and enforce regulations to protect the public from airborne contaminants. -
Endangered Species Perservation Act
Initiate and carry out programs that aim to conserve, restore and propegate certain species of indegineous fish and wild life determined to be in danger of extiction. -
Silent Spring published
Inspired public concerns of pesticides and pollution of the environment and facilitated the ban of DDT. -
Endangered Species Conservation Act
Animals nearing extinction were not being given suffiecient protection. -
National Enviornmental Policy Act
US law that established policy of enhancing the enviornment and also estavlished the president's council on enviornmental quaility. -
Fist Earth Day
Capitalizes on emergency on conciousness channeling the engergy of anti-war and putting environmental concerns front and center. -
clean air act reauthorized
amendments were made that greatly expanded the federal mandate erquiring comprehensive federal and state reulations. -
EPA (Enivronmantal Protection Agency) formed
Agency provides federal research,monitering, and eforcement activities to ensure environmental protection -
DDT Banned
Banned for agricultural use world wide. -
U.N. Enviornment Program Created
International institution that coordinates UN enviornmental activities. -
clean water act
establishes the basic structure for regulating discharges of pollutants into the waters of the us regulating quality standards for surfact waters. -
endangered species act
designed to protect critically imperiled species from extinction. -
Toxic Substances Control Act
Provides EPA with authority to require repoting, record keeping and testing requirements, and restricitons relating to chemical substances. -
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
Control hazardous waste from "cradle to grave". -
Love Canal Disaster
Niagra Falls upstate NY- Toxic waste from previous decades bubbled up into the town which cause a nuclear meltdown. -
Three Mile Island accident
Pennsylvania- Worst accident in US commercial and nuclear power plant history. -
Chernobyl nuclear reactor explosion
The result of a flawed reactor design that was operated with inadequately trained personnel, resulting in increased cancers. -
Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
Oil tanker spills 11 million gallons of crude oil alogn the Alaskan coast. -
Establishment of US green building council
Diverse group of people that are moving the building industry forward. -
Food Quality Protection Act
Managed the use of pesticides and mandated health base standards for pesticides used in foods.
