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Philadelphia
Philadelphia committee led by Benjamin Franklin attempts to regulate waste disposal and water pollution. -
1854
Henry David Thoreau publishes Walden -
1866
The term ecology is coined in German as Oekologie by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel -
1872
the term acid rain is coined by Robert Angus Smith in the book Air and Rain -
1905
The term smog is coined by Henry Antoine Des Voeux in a London meeting to express concern over air pollution -
1916
US Congress created the National Park Service -
The federal court order to integrate Boston schools
The Boston school committee to reject that the schools were essentially segregated. The court wanted to desegregated the most converstial aspect of this plan. -
Brown vs Borad
The Supreme Court ruled that separating children in public schools on the basis of race was unconstitutional. It also helped established the "separate but equal" -
Rosa parks
She refuses to give up her seat on the bus to a white man in Montgomery Alabama. Her defiant stance her prompts a year long on Montgomery bus boycott. -
The Supreme Court court rule in bus segregation
There was a protest against the bus system in Montgomery, Alabama that led to the Supreme Court that it was unconstitutional for segregating the buses. -
The Little Rock nine
It was 9 African American students walking into a school to desegregate the Little Rock central high school. -
1960 presidential election
Richard M nixon, and John F Kennedy avoided civil rights issues, afraid to alienate southern voters. Finally Kennedy was voted out. -
Freedom riders
A group of white and African Americans who participated through bus trips in the south to protest segregated bus terminals. -
The Desegregation of Interstate Travel
The Interstate Commerce Commission finally outlawed discriminatory seating practices on interstate bus transit and ordered the removal of "whites only" signs from interstate bus terminals by November 1. -
1962
Rachel Carson publishes Silent Spring -
March on Washington
There was a massive protest march in front of the Lincoln memorial to draw attention to continuonious challenges of inequality faced by African Americans. -
1968
The Apollo 8 picture of Earthrise -
1970
First Earth Day – April 22. Millions of people gather in the United States for the first Earth Day. US Environmental Protection Agency established -
The baked case
A 35 years white man had applied for admission twice to the university of California for medecine. It was a unfair effort minirotiy profession. Then went to Supreme Court that he was excluded from admission solely on the basis of race. -
1989
Montreal Protocol on substances that deplete the ozone layer entered into force -
1997
The Kyoto Protocol was negotiated in Kyoto, Japan in December. Countries commit to reduce their emissions of carbon dioxide -
2001
U.S. rejects the Kyoto Protocol -
2017
U.S. announces it will cease participation in the Paris Agreement on climate change mitigation -
2021
U.S. announces it will rejoin the Paris Agreement on climate change mitigation