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Philadelphia committee led by Benjamin Franklin attempts to regulate waste disposal and water pollution.
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Henry David Thoreau publishes Walden
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The term ecology is coined in German as Oekologie by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel
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the term acid rain is coined by Robert Angus Smith in the book Air and Rain
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The term smog is coined by Henry Antoine Des Voeux in a London meeting to express concern over air pollution
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US Congress created the National Park Service
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The Boston school committee to reject that the schools were essentially segregated. The court wanted to desegregated the most converstial aspect of this plan. -
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" -
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. -
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. -
It was 9 African American students walking into a school to desegregate the Little Rock central high school. -
Richard M nixon, and John F Kennedy avoided civil rights issues, afraid to alienate southern voters. Finally Kennedy was voted out. -
A group of white and African Americans who participated through bus trips in the south to protest segregated bus terminals. -
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. -
Rachel Carson publishes Silent Spring
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There was a massive protest march in front of the Lincoln memorial to draw attention to continuonious challenges of inequality faced by African Americans. -
The Apollo 8 picture of Earthrise
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First Earth Day – April 22. Millions of people gather in the United States for the first Earth Day. US Environmental Protection Agency established
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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. -
Montreal Protocol on substances that deplete the ozone layer entered into force
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The Kyoto Protocol was negotiated in Kyoto, Japan in December. Countries commit to reduce their emissions of carbon dioxide
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U.S. rejects the Kyoto Protocol
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U.S. announces it will cease participation in the Paris Agreement on climate change mitigation
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U.S. announces it will rejoin the Paris Agreement on climate change mitigation