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George Perkins
He was an American diplomat and philologist, is considered by some to be America's first environmentalist. Also he was a great philologist for his day, and a scholar of great breadth, knowing much of military science, engraving and physics, as well as Icelandic, which was his specialty -
Henry David Thoreau
was an American author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, and historian. Thoreau was immediately enthusiastic about the theory of evolution by natural selection and endorsed it -
John Muir
was a Scottish-American naturalist, author, environmental philosopher and early advocate of preservation of wilderness in the United States. His love of science, especially geology, often occupied his free time. Muir soon became convinced that glaciers had sculpted many of the features of the Yosemite Valley and surrounding area. -
Theodore Roosevelt
was an American statesman, author, explorer, soldier, naturalist, and reformer who served as the 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909.Roosevelt responded to public anger over the abuses in the food packing industry by pushing Congress to pass the Meat Inspection Act of 1906 and the Pure Food and Drug Act. When World War I began in 1914, Roosevelt strongly supported the Allies and demanded a harsher policy against Germany, especially regarding submarine warfare. Roosevelt angrily -
Gifford Pinchot
was an American forester and politician. Pinchot served as the first Chief of the United States Forest Service from 1905 until his firing in 1910, and was the 28th Governor of Pennsylvania, serving from 1923 to 1927, and again from 1931 to 1935. When Pinchot traveled west in 1937, to view those forests with Henry S. Graves, what they saw "tore his heart out." Greeley's legacy, combining modern chain saws and government-built forest roads -
Alice Hamilton
was the first woman appointed to the faculty of Harvard University and was a leading expert in the field of occupational health.In 1908, Hamilton was appointed by the governor of Illinois to the newly formed Illinois Commission on Occupational Diseases, the first such investigative body in the United States. For the next decade she investigated a range of issues for a variety of state and federal health committees. She focused her explorations on occupational toxic disorders, examining th -
Yellowstone national Park establishment
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Franklin Roosevelt
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Aldo Leopold
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Lacey Act
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First national wildlife refuge established
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US forest service founded
The United States Forest Service (USFS) is an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture that administers the nation's 154 national forests and 20 national grasslands, which encompass 193 million acres (780,000 km2). As of 2009, the Forest Service has a total budget authority of $5.5 billion, of which 42% is spent fighting fires. The mission of the Forest Service is "To sustain the health, diversity,and productivity of the Nation's forests and grasslands to meet the needs of present and future -
Antiquities act
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Rachel Carson
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US national park service founded
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Jimmy Carter
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Edward Abbey
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Dust Bowl
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Civvilian Conservartion Corps
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Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp Act
The Federal Duck Stamp, formally known as the Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp, is an adhesive stamp required by the United States federal government to hunt migratory waterfowl such as ducks and geese.It is also used to gain entrance to National Wildlife Refuges that normally charge for admission. It is widely seen as a collectable and a means to raise funds for wetland conservation, with 98% of the proceeds of each sale going to the Migratory Bird Conservation Fund. -
Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act
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Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act
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Al Gore
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The Clean Air act
The Clean Air Act is a United States federal law designed to control air pollution on a national level. It is one of the United States' first and most influential modern environmental laws, and one of the most comprehensive air quality laws in the world. -
Wilderness Act
The Wilderness Act of 1964 (Pub.L. 88–577) was written by Howard Zahniser of The Wilderness Society. It created the legal definition of wilderness in the United States, and protected 9.1 million acres (36,000 km²) of federal land. The result of a long effort to protect federal wilderness and to create a formal mechanism for designating wilderness, the Wilderness Act was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson on September 3, 1964 after over sixty drafts and eight years of work. -
Cuyahoga River Burning
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National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
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The first Earth Day
Earth Day is an annual event, celebrated on April 22, on which day events worldwide are held to demonstrate support for environmental protection. It was first celebrated in 1970, and is now coordinated globally by the Earth Day Network, and celebrated in more than 192 countries each year. Mobilizing 200 million people in 141 countries and lifting the status of environmental issues onto the world stage, Earth Day activities in 1990 gave a huge boost to recycling efforts worldwide and helped pave -
OSHA
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The Clean Water Act
The Clean Water Act (CWA) is the primary federal law in the United States governing water pollution. Its objective is to restore and maintain the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the nation's waters by preventing point and non point pollution sources, providing assistance to publicly owned treatment works for the improvement of wastewater treatment, and maintaining the integrity of wetlands. It is one of the United States' first and most influential modern environmental laws. -
Opec Oil Embargo
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The Endangered species Act
The law was designed to protect critically imperiled species from extinction as a "consequence of economic growth and development untempered by adequate concern and conservation." The U.S. Supreme Court found that "the plain intent of Congress in enacting" the ESA "was to halt and reverse the trend toward species extinction, whatever the cost. -
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES)
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The Love Canal Incident
In 1976, water from heavy rains and a record-breaking blizzard caused a significant amount of chemical waste to migrate to the surface, where it contaminated the entire neighborhood. In the following years the area was stricken with higher than normal rates of stillborn births and miscarriages, and many babies were born with birth defects. -
TMI Nuclear Incident
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Superfund
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Union Carbide plant explosion in Bhopal, India
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Chernobyl nuclear power plant explosion
was a nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the town of Pripyat, in Ukraine. The Chernobyl disaster was the worst nuclear power plant accident in history in terms of cost and casualties. It is one of only two classified as a level 7 event (the maximum classification) on the International Nuclear Event Scale. In the accident 18 people died and still today many type of cancers have been noted in the area -
Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act
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Exxon Valdez oil spill
The Exxon Valdez oil spill occurred in Prince William Sound, Alaska, on March 24, 1989, when Exxon Valdez, an oil tanker bound for Long Beach, California, struck Prince William Sound's Bligh Reef at 12:04 am and spilled 11 to 38 million US gallons (260,000 to 900,000 bbl; 42,000 to 144,000 m3) of crude oil over the next few days. -
The Montreal Protocol
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The Oil Pollution Act
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The Kyoto Act
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BP gulf coast oil spill
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