Environmental Timeline By oliviagaristo Mar 15, 1801 George Perkins Jul 12, 1817 Henry David Thoreau Apr 21, 1838 John Muir Oct 27, 1858 Theodore Roosevelt Aug 11, 1865 Gifford Pinchot Feb 27, 1869 Alice Hamilton Mar 1, 1872 Yellow Stone National Park Established Jan 30, 1882 Franklin Roosevelt Jan 11, 1887 Aldo Leopold May 25, 1900 Lacey Act edit later Mar 14, 1903 First National Wildlife Refuge Established Feb 1, 1905 US Forest Service Founded Jun 8, 1906 Antiquities Act May 27, 1907 Rachel Carson Aug 25, 1916 US National Park Service Founded Oct 1, 1924 Jimmy Carter Jan 29, 1927 Edward Abbey Jan 1, 1931 Dust Bowl Apr 5, 1933 Civilian Conservation Corps Mar 16, 1934 Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp Act Sep 2, 1937 Pittman-Roberterson Wildlife Restoration Act Jun 25, 1938 Federal Food Drug and Cosmetic Act Jan 1, 1948 Federal Water Pollution Control Act Mar 31, 1948 Al Gore Sep 3, 1964 Wilderness Act Jun 22, 1969 Cuyahoga River Burning Jan 1, 1970 Clean Air Act Jan 2, 1970 National Environmental Policy Act Apr 22, 1970 First Earth Day Apr 28, 1971 OSHA Jan 1, 1972 Clean Water Act Oct 17, 1973 OPEC Oil Embargo Dec 28, 1973 Endangered Species Act Jul 1, 1975 C.I.T.E.S Aug 1, 1978 Love Canal Incident Mar 28, 1979 Three Mile Island Nuclear Incident Dec 11, 1980 SuperFund Dec 2, 1984 Union Carbide Plant Explosion In Bhopal, India Apr 26, 1986 Chernobyl Oct 17, 1986 Emergency Planning and Community Right-To-Know Act Aug 26, 1987 Montreal Protocol Mar 24, 1989 Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Aug 18, 1990 Oil Pollution Act Dec 11, 1997 Kyoto Protocol Apr 20, 2010 BP Gulf Oil Spill
