Environmental Timeline

George Perkins

Mar 15, 1801

Henry David Thoreau

Jul 12, 1817

John Muir

Apr 21, 1838

Theodore Roosevelt

Oct 27, 1858

Gifford Pinchot

Aug 11, 1865

Alice Hamilton

Feb 27, 1869

Yellow Stone National Park Established

Mar 1, 1872

Franklin Roosevelt

Jan 30, 1882

Aldo Leopold

Jan 11, 1887

Lacey Act

May 25, 1900

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First National Wildlife Refuge Established

Mar 14, 1903

US Forest Service Founded

Feb 1, 1905

Antiquities Act

Jun 8, 1906

Rachel Carson

May 27, 1907

US National Park Service Founded

Aug 25, 1916

Jimmy Carter

Oct 1, 1924

Edward Abbey

Jan 29, 1927

Dust Bowl

Jan 1, 1931

Civilian Conservation Corps

Apr 5, 1933

Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp Act

Mar 16, 1934

Pittman-Roberterson Wildlife Restoration Act

Sep 2, 1937

Federal Food Drug and Cosmetic Act

Jun 25, 1938

Federal Water Pollution Control Act

Jan 1, 1948

Al Gore

Mar 31, 1948

Wilderness Act

Sep 3, 1964

Cuyahoga River Burning

Jun 22, 1969

Clean Air Act

Jan 1, 1970

National Environmental Policy Act

Jan 2, 1970

First Earth Day

Apr 22, 1970

OSHA

Apr 28, 1971

Clean Water Act

Jan 1, 1972

OPEC Oil Embargo

Oct 17, 1973

Endangered Species Act

Dec 28, 1973

C.I.T.E.S

Jul 1, 1975

Love Canal Incident

Aug 1, 1978

Three Mile Island Nuclear Incident

Mar 28, 1979

SuperFund

Dec 11, 1980

Union Carbide Plant Explosion In Bhopal, India

Dec 2, 1984

Chernobyl

Apr 26, 1986

Emergency Planning and Community Right-To-Know Act

Oct 17, 1986

Montreal Protocol

Aug 26, 1987

Exxon Valdez Oil Spill

Mar 24, 1989

Oil Pollution Act

Aug 18, 1990

Kyoto Protocol

Dec 11, 1997

BP Gulf Oil Spill

Apr 20, 2010