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Love Canal
They dug up the canal which led to terrible water pollution, the panic of 1983 caused investors to end sponsorship of the project -
Dust Bowl
Millions of acres of land became useless due to lack of water in soil which began major dust storms and caused harsh environments for farmers for almost a decade. -
Minamata disaster 1956
A man-made tragedy that happened in Japan when a big chemical factory dumped mercury into a bay where people fish, poisoning the fish which led to poisoning the people when eating them. -
Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring
Silent spring explained how indiscrimate application of agricultural chemicals, modern chemicals, pesticides, which caused pollutions to swarm our streams. Caused medical problems and birds to die. -
Stockholm Conference
Placed 26 principles on environmental issues to help international concerns which helped lower air pollution and clean our waters for people around the world. -
The Clean Act
The clean act (CWA) of 1972 is a federal law that regulates the quality of water in the united states and how pollutants are discharged into it. -
Endangered Species Act
Provides a framework to converse and protect endangered and threatened species and their habitats both domestically and abroad -
Bhopal Disaster
Methyl isocyanate gas leaked from a pesticide plant, killing over 3800 people and causing lots of injuries for many more. -
Chernobyl Meltdown
In Ukraine a nuclear power plant went out of control during a test which led to a fire that demolished the reactor building causing large amounts of radiation into the atmosphere. -
Montreal Protocol
An international treaty that was agreed upon in 1987 to protect the ozone layer. -
Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
The oil tanker exxon valdez ran aground in prince william sound, alaska. Spilling 11 million gallons of oil. -
Clean Air Act
On November,1990, the clean air act was revised for major threats to the environment and to the health of millions of Americans. -
Kyoto Protocol
A protocol that limits the greenhouse gases, this protocol also sets binding emission reduction targets for 37 countries. -
An Inconvenient Truth
Was to raise awareness of the issue on climate change, this documentary showed the levels of carbon and the effects of the carbon on our earth, but also showed the effect of global warming on the people if this continues. -
Horizon Oil Spoil
4 million barrels of oil flowed from the damaged Macondo in the gulf of Mexico, exploded and sank. 11 workers died and had the largest spill in oil history. United states filed a complaint in district Court against BP Exploration. -
World of Change Amazon Deforestation
Once home to 208,000 square kilometers of forest, an area slightly smaller than Kansas. In the past three decades, Clearing and degradation of the state's forest have been rapid. -
Clean Power Plan
A rule proposed by the environmental protection agency (EPA) in 2014 to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from power plants. -
Paris Climate Accord
Its goal is to hold the increase of global average temperature to well below 2 Celsius, it is an international treaty on climate change and a landmark on climate change.