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A professor of wildlife management who was pivotal in the designation of Gila National Forest in New Mexico as Americas first national wilderness area.
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President Eisenhower speaks on the problem of air pollution in his State of the Union address.
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Collapsing fish stocks, endangered species, pesticide poisoning, deforestation, nuclear waste, ozone layer depletion, global warming, acid precipitation, ect.
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Their mission: to protest underground nuclear testing by the US military at Amchitka, a tiny volcanic island off western Alaska.
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The Energy Tax Act creates an incentive for ethanol use. This is the first instance of using tax credits to encourage fuel efficiency and renewable energy.
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Businesses started marketing themselves as environmentally friendly. In the United States, public attention and criticism was directed towards the US chemical industry, automobile emissions and oil spills.
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The environmental movement became public and gained momentum
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The Montreal Protocol is signed by the U.S., Japan, Canada, and 21 other countries, agreeing to phase out ozone-depleting CFCs by the year 2000.
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President Reagan signs the Ocean Dumping Ban Act of 1988, a law that prohibits all waste dumping in the ocean starting in 1992.
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UNEP organized Earth Summits on the environment