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Establishment of National Forests
It allowed the president to establish forest reserves from timber-covered public domain land. -
Lacey act
The lacey act of 1900 is a conversion law in the U.S that prohibits trade in wildlife, fish, and plants that have been illegally taken. -
Migratory bird act
Is a United States federal law that protects migratory birds between the U.S and Britain. -
Public Health Service Act
A primary United States public health service that helps people. -
Everglades National Park
It is the largest subtropical wilderness in the U.S and holds rare and endangered species. -
Antarctic Treaty System
This regulates international relations with respect to Antarctica, Earth's only continent without a native human population. -
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Bald Eagle Protection Act
This law provides for the protection of the Bald Eagles by prohibiting the take, possession, sale, purchase, offer to sell, purchase, transport, export or import, of any kind. -
Silent Spring published
Documented 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. -
Wilderness act
It was written by Howard Zahniser of the Wilderness society and protected 9.1 million acres of federal land -
Chernobyl Nuclear Explosion
A nuclear power plant in Ukraine was the product of a flawed Soviet reactor design coupled with serious mistakes made by the plant operators. -
National Environmental Policy Act
Is a United States environmental law that promotes the growth of environment and established the President's Council on Environmental Quality. -
First Earth Day
The idea for a national day to focus on the environment. To demonstrate and protect ways to protect the environment. -
First Earth Day
The idea for a national day to focus on the environment. To show demonstrations and to support protecting the environment. -
EPA formed
The environmental protection agency is a organization formed by Richard Nixon. The EPA, protects the environment, and enforcement of the environmental laws. -
DDT Banned
DDT was a commonly-used pesticide for insect control in the United States until it was canceled in 1972 by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). -
World Environment Day
World Environment Day promotes ways to improve the Earth's environment, such as conserving forests. -
Water Quality Act
The Clean Water Act is the primary federal law in the United States governing water pollution. -
U.N Environment Progamme Creation
This is an agency of the United Nations, coordinates the organization's environmental activities and assists developing countries in implementing environmental policies. -
OPEC oil embargo
1973 oil crisis, during the Israel war members of petroleum holding countries imposed an embargo act of the United States -
Endangered Species Act 1973
It serves as overlooking provisions outlined in the convention of international trade in endangered species. It protects endangered species. -
Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species (CITE)
It is international agreement between governments. Its goal is to ensure that international trade of animals and plants does not threaten their survival. -
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
This act controls the hazardous waste in the environment. -
Toxic Substances Control Act
Is the united states law passed in 1976 that regulates the introduction of new chemicals and existing chemicals. -
Alternative Energy Institute
Formed in 1977 and provides education and outreach around the U.S and globe. -
Love Canal Disaster
Founded in 1978 is a 70 acre landfill which became a epicenter of a massive environmental pollution. Harming the health of hundreds of residents. -
Three Mile Island
The Three Mile Island accident occurred on March 28, 1979. The three Mile incident was accident began with failures in the non-nuclear secondary system, followed by a stuck-open pilot-operated relief valve in the primary system -
Union Carbide Plant explosion
This was a gas leak which happened on december 2nd and 3rd. This was considered one of the world's most Industrial disaster. It killed over 16,000 people and injured over 558,125 people. -
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Montreal Protocol
In 1987 a global agreement to protect the stratospheric ozone layer by phasing out production and consumption of ozone-depleting substances. -
Exxon Valdez Oil Spill- March 24, 1989
It was a oil spill in Prince William Alaska -
Gulf War Oil Spill
The Gulf War oil spill was one of the largest oil spills in history, resulting from the Gulf War in 1991. -
First U.N Earth summit
The united nations conference held in rio De janeiro based on the earth and keeping the earth clean. It was a earth summit -
Food Quality Protection Act
Improved securities on how food was handled and processed for quality improvements. -
Kyoto Protocol
It’s an international treaty among industrialized nations that sets mandatory limits on greenhouse gas emissions. -
World Food Summit
Is existence of widespread undernutrition and growing concern about the capacity of agriculture to meet future food needs. -
BP Oil Spill
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill is an industrial disaster that began on the 20th April 2010, largest marine oil spill in history. -
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Paris Climate Accord
This is dealing with greenhouse-gas-emissions mitigation, adaptation, and finance.
