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led by Benjamin Franklin attempts to regulate waste disposal and water pollution.
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these women made sure us women were just as equal as men -
she was the first women to graduate from medical school and became a doctor for the united states -
she delivers her famous speech "aint i a women?" speech at the womens rights convention in akron ohio -
publishes Walden
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is coined in German as Oekologie by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel
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Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton found the National Woman Suffrage Association, which coordinated the national suffrage movement. -
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is coined by Robert Angus Smith in the book Air and Rain
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is coined by Henry Antoine Des Voeux in a London meeting to express concern over air pollution
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created the National Park Service
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she was the first to open the first birth control clinic in the united states -
a longtime activist with the national women suffrage assiocation is sworn in as the first woman elected to congress as a member of the house of representatives. -
declaring “the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.”
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she became the first woman to and second pilot ever to fly solo nonstop across the atlantic -
she was the first black women to refuse to give up her seat to a white man on the bus -
publishes Silent Spring
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picture of Earthrise
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April 22. Millions of people gather in the United States for the first Earth Day. US Environmental Protection Agency established
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on substances that deplete the ozone layer entered into force
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was negotiated in Kyoto, Japan in December. Countries commit to reduce their emissions of carbon dioxide
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the Kyoto Protocol
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it will cease participation in the Paris Agreement on climate change mitigation
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it will rejoin the Paris Agreement on climate change mitigation