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National Forests
Began with the forest reserve act in 1891. Created to help preserve wildlife. -
Migratory Bird Act
Passed under US federal law, protects migratory birds, their eggs, and their nests by prohibiting taking, selling, exporting, and importing between the US and Great Britain. -
Bald Eagle Protection Act-
The bald eagle was chosen as a national emblem of the United States by the Continental Congress of 1782 and was given legal protection -
Public Health Service Act
authorizes the secretary to determine that a public health emergency exists. This determination triggers emergency powers that permit the federal government to engage in activities such as assisting state and local governments, suspending or modifying certain legal requirements, and expending available funds to address the public health emergency. -
Everglades National Park
Established in South Florida to conserve the natural landscape and prevent further degradation of its land, plants, and animals. -
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Antarctic Treaty System
Regulates relations among states in the antarctic. -
Silent Spring Published
An environmental science book to document the adverse effects on the environment of the indiscriminate use of pesticides. -
Clean Air Act
The Clean Air Act is a United States federal law designed to control air pollution on a national level. It is one of the United States' first and most influential modern environmental laws, and one of the most comprehensive air quality laws in the world -
Wilderness Act
The Wilderness Act was passed in order to establish guidelines and for setting aside and protecting undeveloped federal land. -
Water Quality Act
Ensures quality of surface and ground waters -
National Environmental Policy
Across US
An environmental law that promotes the enhancement of the environment and establishes the President's Council on Environmental Quality. -
First Earth Day
A celebration of earth to talk about environmental issues. -
EPA formed
The Environmental Protection Agency of the US federal government was formed in the wake of elevated concern over environmental pollution. -
DDT Banned
Was a pesticide used on vegetables but was banned in 1972 by the united states environmental protection agency. -
Clean Water Act
This act governs and regulates water pollution -
OPEC oil embargo
OPEC halted US oil exports due to the US decision to resupply the Israeli military. -
Convention on the international trade in endangered species
A multilateral treaty to protect endangered plants and animals by providing to not ensure an animal more by not allowing illegal transportation. -
Endangered Species Act
A program for the conservation of endangered animals and plants and the habitats that they are found in. -
Toxic Substance Control Act
The TSCA provides the EPA with authority to allow restrictions and testing to chemical substances. -
Resource and Recovery Act
It gives the EPA authority to control hazardous waste. -
Alternative Energy Institute
Was a West Texas A&M University branch to find alternative entertainment sources. -
Love Canal Disaster
Love Canal, in Niagara Falls, New York,
intended as a residential community, grew a larger concern for health problems arose, such as leukemia, due to the dumping of toxic waste. -
Union Carbide plant explosion
At the Union Carbide India Limited, in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, leaked a highly toxic amount of methyl isocyanate into the air -
Chernobyl Nuclear Explosion-
Nuclear plant accident, power failure cause the plant malfunction, hundreds killed from radiation positioning the town is still abandoned -
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Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
An Exxon Valdez oil tanker spilled 10.8 million gallons of crude oil in Prince William Sound, Alaska. -
Montreal Protocol
An international treaty designed to protect the ozone layer by phasing out the production of multiple substances linked to depletion to the ozone layer. -
Gulf war oil spill
The oil spill was resulting from the Gulf War in 1991. The apparent strategic goal was to foil a potential landing by US Marines. It also made commandeering oil reserves dangerous for US forces as visibility and movement were inhibited. -
Lacey Act
A conservation act places across the US, prohibiting the selling or trade of wildlife and plants that were acquired illegally. -
First U.N. Earth Summit
A conference held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to focus on and discuss the state of the worlds global state and the relationship between science, economics, and the environment on a political viewpoint. -
Food quality protection act
Amended the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act and the Federal Food Drug and Cosmetic Act and8 changed EPA's regulation of pesticides. ... make a safety finding when setting tolerances, i.e., that the pesticide can be used with “a reasonable certainty of no harm. -
Three Mile Island
In reactor number 2 of Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, near Harrisburg. It was the most significant accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant history -
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U.N. environmental program
It assists developing countries in creating sound environmental policies -
Kyoto Protocol
International treaty to reduce greenhouse gasses and stop global warming -
World Food Summit
Enacted to help the continued spreading of undernutrition -
BP oil spill
While drilling for oil, in the Gulf of Mexico a flaw was noticed as the cement wasn’t thick enough to hold hold the oil causing a leak, eventually the oil caught on fire. -
Paris Climate Accord
Dealing with Climate Change, dealing with greenhouse-gas-emissions mitigation, adaptation, and finance, -
World Environment Day
June 5 annually. the United Nation's principal vehicle for encouraging awareness and action for the protection of our environment
