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Henry David Thoreau, one of the best and first environmentalist who was a prominent author in the environmental movement, died.
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President Ulysses S. Grant establishes Yellowstone National Park
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John Muir founds Sierra Club in order to help preserve more of the environment. He was a large supporter of preservation and helped preserve Yosemite Valley.
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Theodore Roosevelt created the Bureau of Forestry in order to help protect the environment by putting it under federal government control.
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1930's - Due to droughts, wind storms would occur across the prairie land of the United states causing major ecological damage to the once arable land
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As early as 1936 to as late as 1969 the Cuyahoga river would catch fire due to floating debris and oil in the river which was due to water pollution.
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Aldo Leopold's Sand County Almanac about a philosophical view of preserving nature was published due to Leopold's belief of the involvement that people need to have in preserving the environment
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Rachel Carson writes Silent Spring, a novel which led to the banning of DDT pesticides which caused a great deal of harm to the environment.
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Paul R. Ehrlich wrote Population Bomb which was a controversial novel predicting the fall of society due to overpopulation.
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The paper is one of the most influential writings on the environment and he thought that using common resources can be a contributor to the ultimate depletion of these resources.
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A number of laws passed by the government to help ensure air quality standards and reduce air pollution.
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Establishment of U.S. policy%u2019s to help promote the enhancement of the environment and established the requirement for environmental impact statements (EIS) for U.S. government actions.
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During the 1970's and 80's congress passed laws to help ensure water quality and reduce water pollution.
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The Endangered Species Act was created to protect critically endangered species from extinction due to economic growth.
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(1977-1979) A neighborhood in Niagara was found to be built on 21,000 tons of toxic waste which caused a large disturbance in the neighborhood as well as a national uproar about the health and safety of industrial neighborhoods.
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The greatest nuclear power plant meltdown in American history. Happened in Pennsylvania
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Superfund aka Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, was created in response to the Love Canal to protect people in case of such disasters in the future.
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A subsidiary plant released 40 tons of methyl isocyanate (MIC) which caused over 3,000 immediate and later on a total of 8,000 deaths due to diseases caused by the spill.
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Nuclear reactor broke down causing massive pollution in the Soviet Union, killing hundreds of thousands of people.
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The Montreal Protocol is written to prevent the production of ozone depleting substances to help the recovery of the ozone.
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Kyoto Protocol put into effect in order to reduce the production of greenhouse gases to try to prevent climate change.
