History of Environmentalism

By lacrossecg

  • Yosemite grant

  • Yellowstone National Park founded

  • US Geological Survey founded

  • Forest Reserve Act

  • Sierra Club founded in California

  • National Park Protective Act

  • National Park Service founded

  • National Wildlife Federation founded

  • DDT discovered

  • Nature Conservancy founded

  • First nuclear power plant

  • Air Pollution Control Act

  • Delaney Clause of Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act

  • "Silent Spring" published by Rachel Carlson

  • Clean Air Act

  • EPA Founded

  • First Earth Day

  • Clean Water Act

  • Endangered Species Act

  • Safe Drinking Water Act

  • CITIES Act

  • Resource Conservation and Recovery Act

  • CERCLA Act

  • Chernobyl nuclear disaster

  • Montreal Protocol

  • Exxon Valdez oil spill

  • Kyoto Protocol

  • Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth"