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Rachel Carson publishes “silent spring” on September 27, 1962. Silent spring provide insight on the damage that man – made pesticides serve to the environment. Publicly silent spring is often viewed as the beginning of the modern environmentalist movement in America. -
A doctor in Japan reported an “epidemic of unknown disease” Japan became contaminated with mercury, the mercury was bio transformed by bacteria in the water into methylmercury, which biomagnified in the muscle of fish, first cats started to eat the fish leading humans to catching the disease causing over 2 thousand had dies and thousands were injured. -
The Endangered species act (ESA) was signed into law by President Richard Nixon on December 28, 1973. ESA was designed to protect critically refined species from extinction, and to recover species to the point where the laws protections are not needed, therefore protects species and the ecosystems upon which they depend through different mechanisms -
Love Canal is a terminated Canal project hanging off Niagara Falls. 800 single family homes built directly adjacent from the canal. From 1942 to 1953 The Hooker Chemical Company began using the canal as a chemical waste dump. At the end of that period the contents of the canal consisted of around 21,000 tons of toxic chemicals. In the late 1970s the toxic substances were leaking in people’s houses leaving 700 families at insufficient risk -
On December 3, 1984, more than 40 tons of methyl isocyanate gas (A colorless, Flammable, and highly toxic liquid) leaked from a pesticide plant in Bhopal India. Instantly killing at least 3,800 people and causing remarkable morbidity and premature death for many thousands more.