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Tree conservation
Pensylvania colony governor William Penn ordered colonists to conserve one tree for every five cutdown. This impacts us today because lumber companies are cutting more nad more trees down so if we do not have a law that will help grow them too, we will run out of trees soon. It is important because trees are very important to the envrionment and we should preserve it. -
The Lacey Act
The lacey act prohibited the trasport of illegally obtained wildlife across state lines, and outlawed hunting in Yellowstone National Park. This impacts us today because it protects the animals from getting taken out of his habitat and helps animals in the Yellowstone National Park. The importance of animals is being taught through this act and also preserving them. -
Burton Act
Congress passed the Burton Act, which preserved Niagara Falls from hydroelectric power facilities. Niagara falls is one the biggest waterfalls in the world and building a power electricity could potentially ruin it. Which would stop the revenue generated from toursit and destroy the habitat for animals and fishes living there. -
Georgia vs. Tennessee Copper Company
Georgia filed lawsuit against the Tennessee Copper Company because of fumes that were crossing the state border. The fumes were polluting communities, killing forests, and making Georgians ill. Georgia won and it impacts us today because the air is much cleaner than it was. -
The Raker Act
Authorizing the flooding of Hetch Hetchy Valley and the building of O'Shaughnessy dam, in Yosemite National Park. It is important because it stops flooding in the California area. -
National Park Service
Today there are approximately 400 national parks across America, comprising approximately 4% of the entire U.S., or 84.6 billion acres of preserved land. It saves trees from being lumbered so we would have more resources when we are older -
Emergenct Conservation Work Act
Thousands of unemployed yyoung men were recruited into a peacetime army called the Civilian Conservation Corps. This helped the economy and their job was to protect against erosion and destruction of natural resources -
The Bald Eagly preservation Act
Act was passed to prevent the extinction of the national symbol. They are no longer endangered anymore because of this act. This is important because the bald eagle plays an important part in the food webb and things will go out of balance if they go extinct -
The Antarctic Treaty
The Antarctic Treaty protected Antarctica from the dumping of nuclear waste. To date, 46 countries including the United States have signed the treaty. This is important because nuclear waste is radioactive and it could seriously damage the habitat there -
Clean Air Act
Congress passed the frist clean air act, which regulated air pollution and emissions. The air is a lot cleaner now because of the clean air act. -
Wilderness Act
Congress passed the Wilderness act, establishing the National Wilderness Preservation system to secure for future generations. By 2001, there were 90 million acres of preserved wilderness in the U.S. Without this act, many other animals would be extinct now -
Ignition of the Buyahoga River
Cleveland's CUyahoga River ignited, as the chemicals and pollution floating on top of the water caught fire. This raised awareness thourghout the nation and everyone started thinking more environmentally -
Blue Marble photo of Earth
NASA released the "Blue Marble" photo of Earth from space, giving Americans a first look of their place. This photo help raised awareness of some of the environmental issues. -
The Wild and Scenic Rivers Act
The wild and Scenic ivers act passed by Congress and President Johnson to protect waterways from pollution, commercialization, and development. Similar to the water quality act, protecting the water from waste. -
The Water Quality Act
President Johnson signed the Water Quality Act to strengthen federal water pollution laws and outline water quality guidelines for states. Water has to be clean to make sure we do not catch any diseases and at the rate the world use to pollute the water, all the oceans and rivers would be catching on fire and green -
Nationan Envrionmental Policy Act
One of the first laws to establish the broad national framework for protecting the environment. The act demanded all branches of government give proper consideration to the environment priot to building airports, building, military complexes, highways, park, and other activities. This law made the environment the biggest concern instead of being invisible -
Endangered Species Act
Congress passed the Endangered species act to protect what are now known as Endangered species from possible extinction. This protected many animals that were almost extinct and protected the environment. -
Safe Drinking water act
Congres passed the safe drinking Water Act to be administered by the EPA, protecting Americans from contaminated drinking water. The EPA still regulates public drinking water as a result of the act. Everyone in the states has clean drinking water including water fountains that are clean and clean water bottles -
Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act
Congress passed the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation act, designationg over 100 million acres of parks, wildlife refuges and wilderness areas throughout the state. conservating nature by having limits to where people can go or not. -
Comprehensive Environmental Response
The comprehensive environemtnal responce, compensation and liability act (Superfund) was established to provide funds for cleaning of uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous waste sites, along with accidents, spills and other emergency releases of pollutanta or contaminas into the environment. Whenever something is released, it can be dealth with instantly, instead of when they get the funds to. -
The Montreal Protocol
The montreal protocol, an international treaty, was first signed to eliminate ozone-depleting hydrocarbons from the environment. This slows down the effect of global warming. Ozone-depleting hydrocarbon production has significantly decreased -
The Oil Pollution Act
The Oil pollution act streamlined the EPA's aility to prevent and clean up catstrophic oli spills. The Exxon Valdez oil spill was the main cause of this act. Many ocean life were oil-soaked and it affected their habitats. -
Convention on Climate change
The Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, resulting in the signing of the convention on Climate Change and the Earth Charter, a global pledge to control global warming. Global warming is slowed down so that generations further down can still enjoy the wildlife. -
New Air Quality Standards
The EPA issued New Air Quality standards to control small patriculate too small to see. Fine particulate matter, which pollutes the air, comes from things like car exhaust, smokestacks, and cole-fired powerplants. This keeps us from getting sick from small particules we can't see that we may inhale unintentionally -
Massachusetts v. EPA
Massachusetts filed suit against the EPA for not establishing greenhouse gas requirements in the state, The EOA argued that as a federal agency, could not regulate individual state issues.
