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DDT banned
was a commonly-used pesticide for insect control in the United States -
Establishment of national forests
allowed the president to establish forest reserves from timber-covered public domain land. -
Lacey Act
World's first ban on trade in illegally sourced wood products -
Migratory Bird Act
enacted for the protection of migratory birds between united states and great Britain -
Bald eagle protection act
United States federal statute that protects two species of eagle. -
Public health service act
It gave the United States Public Health Service responsibility for preventing the introduction, transmission and spread of communicable diseases from foreign countries into the United States. -
Everglades National Park
The results would be severely damaging to the ecosystem and the species it supported. With the support of many early conservationists, scientists, and other advocates, Everglades National Park was established in 1947 to conserve the natural landscape and prevent further degradation of its land, plants, and animals. -
Antarctic treaty system
regulate international relations with respect to Antarctica, Earth's only continent without a native human population. -
Silent Spring
The book was published on 27 September 1962 and it documented the adverse effects on the environment of the indiscriminate use of pesticides. -
Clean air act
United States federal law designed to control air pollution on a national level. -
Wilderness Act
Created the legal definition of the term wilderness and protected over 9.1 million acres of federal land -
First Earth Day
United States Senator Gaylord Nelson as an environmental teach-in first held on April 22, 1970. Celebrate and reminder to keep earth clean -
National environmental policy act
The National Environmental Policy Act is a United States environmental law that promotes the enhancement of the environment and established the President's Council on Environmental Quality. The law was enacted on January 1, 1970. -
EPA formed
The Environmental Protection Agency is an independent agency of the United States federal government for environmental protection. -
Clean water act
the primary federal law in the United States governing water pollution -
U.N environmental programme created
coordinates the organization's environmental activities and assists developing countries in implementing environmentally sound policies and practices. -
Water quality act
ts objective is to restore and maintain the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the nation's waters -
Opec Oil Embargo
Oil Embargo, 1973–1974. During the 1973 Arab-Israeli War, Arab members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) imposed an embargo against the United States in retaliation for the U.S. decision to re-supply the Israeli military and to gain leverage in the post-war peace negotiations. -
Endangered Species Act
Serves as the enacting legislation to carry out the provisions outlined in the convention on international trade. Protects the wild. -
World food summit
in rome- the United Nations under the auspices of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), in the wake of the devastating famine in Bangladesh in the preceding two years. -
CITIES
CITES is a multilateral treaty to protect endangered plants and animals. It was drafted as a result of a resolution adopted in 1963 at a meeting of members of the International Union for Conservation of Nature. -
toxic substances control act
regulates the introduction of new or already existing chemicals. -
Resource conservation and recovery act
the principal federal law in the United States governing the disposal of solid waste and hazardous waste. -
Alternative Energy Institute
Alternative Energy Institute was West Texas A&M University's alternative energy research branch. Formed in 1977, the program was nationally and internationally recognized, and along with research provides education and outreach around the U.S. and the globe. -
Love Canal Disaster
neighborhood and 70-acre landfill which became an epicenter of a massive environmental pollution disaster harming the health of hundreds of residents. -
Three mile island accident
It was the most significant accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant history. -
Union Carbide Plant explosion
Gas leak incident on the night of 2-3 December 1984 at the union carbide India limited pesticide plant in Bhopal. Considered the worlds worst industrial disaster. -
Chernobyl nuclear explosion
also referred to as the Chernobyl accident, was a catastrophic nuclear accident. -
Montreal Protocol
The Montreal Protocol, finalized in 1987, is a global agreement to protect the stratospheric ozone layer by phasing out the production and consumption of ozone-depleting substances (ODS). -
Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
The Exxon Valdez oil spill was a man made disaster that occurred when Exxon Valdez, an oil tanker owned by the Exxon Shipping Company, spilled 11 million gallons of crude oil into Alaska’s Prince William Sound on March 24, 1989. -
Gulf war oil spill
one of the largest oil spills in history, resulting from the Gulf War in 1991. -
first U.N earth summit
was a major United Nations conference held in Rio de Janeiro -
Food quality protection act
fundamentally changed EPA's regulation of pesticides. -
Kyoto protocol
an international treaty which extends the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change -
Deep water Horizon Oil Spill
The Gulf oil spill is recognized as the worst oil spill in U.S. history. Within days of the April 20, 2010 explosion and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico that killed 11 people, underwater cameras revealed the BP pipe was leaking oil and gas on the ocean floor about 42 miles off the coast of Louisiana. By the time the well was capped on July 15, 2010 (87 days later), an estimated 3.19 million barrels of oil had leaked into the Gulf. -
Paris Climate
Description The Paris Agreement is an agreement within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, dealing with greenhouse-gas-emissions mitigation, adaptation, and finance, starting in the year 2020. -
World environment day
the United Nation's principal vehicle for encouraging awareness and action for the protection of our environment