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founder of modern environmentalist movement
Rachel Carson published her book Silent Spring this book was said to be founder of the modern environmentalist movement -
pollution killed
Thanksgiving Day in November of the year 1966, 80 people are killed as a result of air pollution -
Santa Barbara oil spill
After the oil spill, legislation pushes for environmental protection and began to quickly be advised and passed -
National environmental policy act
first laws ever passed to protect the environment in the United States -
Earth day
protest would erupt against environmental ignorance -
Clean water & Clean air act
set national standards for enviormental quality -
Club Of Rome
environmental movement that made the best selling environmental book -
Stockholm conference
the first meeting to consider global environment and development needs -
endangered species act
act protects and sets up a program for endangered species of plants and animals -
Superfund act
establish response and compensation to specific enviormental disasters
