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Thomas Mathus predicted that exponential population growth would outpace linear food production, leading to starvation.
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John Muir, founder of the Sierra Club, was born on April 21, 1838.
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Walden was a book written by Henry David Thoreau that expresses the need for preservation and love of nature.
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Signed by Abraham Lincoln, the Homestead Act allowed anyone who had never taken up arms against the United States to file for a plot of land. This prevented the country from being run by wealthy plantation owners.
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The American Forestry Association was founded to dedicate itself to the preservation of forests and the creatures that live in them.
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The General Revision Act allowed the President of the United States to set aside forest preserves.
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The Sierra Club was founded by John Muir. Its original intent was to protect and advocate for the environment. It lives on today.
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The Lacey Act was signed by President William Mckinley. Its laws protected the environment and fined or punished anyone that disobeyed it.
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The U.S. Forest Service was founded to preserve and protect the forests of our country. They still do work to protect the forests of today.
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Gifford Pinchot is the founder of the way we preserve wildlife today. He believed in preserving the Earth through planned preservation. He founded the method of keeping track of natural resources.
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Aldo Leopold was a well-known author, ecologist, forester and nature writer. He was best known for his book, A Sand Country Almanac which was an account of his beliefs on harming the environment.
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The Audubon Society was founded to preserve birds, other wildlife and healthy ecosystems.
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The Antiquities Act gives the President the right to prohibit any use of a certain plot of public land.
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This was for unmarried, unemployed men. It was a work relief program in which workers did environmental jobs.
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The Soil Conservation Service serves farmers and private land owners. It is an agency under the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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The Taylor Grazing Act is a law that regulates grazingon public land to preserves ranges.
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This was a stamp signed by hunters that regulated them to hunt migratory birds. It was also needed to gain entrance to National Wildlife Refuges.
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The United States Fish and Wildlife Service is a federal agency founded to preserve fish and natural habitats.
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Jane Goodall was an activist, chimpanzee expert, advocate for animal welfare, and a conservationalist. She is against the use of animals for zoos or medical research.
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This book sparked the American Environmental Movement.
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Written by Howard Zahniser, this act defined what wilderness really is and protected about 9.1 acres of land from being destroyed.
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This was a law designed to protect America from harmful contaminants in the air.
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This amendment called on the auto companies to make cars safer for the environment.
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This law defines a system of National Wild and Scenic Rivers and allows for new ones to be created at any time.
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The Cuyahoga River, at one time, was the most polluted river in the United States due to dumping. This was the second fire the river experienced in 20 years.
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The act was established to enhance the safety of the environment and, it also gave the president a special advisory board that specialized in environmental science.
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While in office Nixon passed many laws pertaining to the environment, including the Clean Air Act of 1972, Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972, and the Endangered Species Act of 1973.
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Richard Nixon proposed that this agency would exist to hold most of the country's minor and major environmental actions.
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This act strengthened the original amendment of '65 making the car companies, once again, change the way they make cars so that they are healthier for the planet.
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This was an amendment made to FIFRA giving the EPA sole responsibility for regulating pesticide use.
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OPEC raised oils prices drastically in response to the U.S. and other Western Nations joining the Yom Kippur War.
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This sparked companies to stop putting CFC's in their products.
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This was an extension of the current act.
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This law defines how hazordous waste should be disposed.
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This amendment called for a crackdown on areas that did not meet up to par with the standards set by the Clean Air Act.
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This law established the goals of releasing toxins from the water we use.
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This law regulates the way mining should be done in the United States. It protects the Earth from being harmed by overmining.
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This was another amendment to the law.
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Due to overgrowth in the city of Niagara Falls, NY, Love Canal was built without regard to saftey. As a result the public water supply was contaminated. As a result of this disaster Lois Gibbs became a well-known environmentalist.
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This was the worst U.S. nuclear accident in history.
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The act called for millions of acres of national parks to be established in Alaska.
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This act helped clean up sites contaminated with hazardous waste and established the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.
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Ronald Regan was more of an anti-environmental president as he attempted to get rid of the EPA and dismissed acid rain proposals.
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Due to a gas leak, 16,000 people lost their lives in Bhopal, India. It is considered one of the worst industrial accidents ever.
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Chernobyl was a catastrophic nuclear disaster. Because of a failed test many people were given a large dose of nuclear fallout.
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This amendment made many major changes to Superfund, but its biggest one was providing more financial aid to the program.
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The Montreal Protocol was created to get more countries, other than the U.S. in protecting the depleting ozone layer.
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This amendment demanded registration for some unknown pesticides before they could be used.
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The Exxon Valdez was an oil tanker that spilled in Alaska. It was the 54th largest oil spill in history.
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This amendment gave government more power relating to keeping up with areas with high acid deposition numbers.
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This amendment gave Superfund more government funding.
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This act adressed energy efficiency, conservation, and management.
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The Desert Protection Act established national parks and nature preserves in the desert of California.
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Julia Butterfly Hill sat in tree "Luna" for 700+ days to protect deforestation.
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This treaty is a joint agreement among large number of nations to reduce emissions.
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