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Mining Act
Mining Act was voted- forces the sale of federal lands and prevents the government from collecting royalties for extrcting minerals. -
Fog
Killer fog in London kills 700 people. -
Local Ordinances
Chicago is the first American city to make a local ordinance regulating smoke discharges. -
Forest Reserves
Forest Reserve Act authorized the president to set aside forest reserves. -
Climate March
Sierra Club is founded by John Muir -
Mine diaster
Mine disaster kills 362 coal miners in Monongha, West Virginia. -
Health Service
Public Health Service Act authorizes government investigation of water pollution. -
Conserving nature
The National Park service is created. -
Leaded Gasoline
General Motors researchers disocver leaded gasoline. -
Wildlife
More than 100 wildlife sanctuaries have federal protection. -
Dust Bowl
Dust Bowl begins- environmental and agricultural damage. -
Hawk Nest Tunnel Disaster
One of the worst industrial disasters in America, killed 100-1000 who had deeloped a lung disease as a result of being exposd to silica dust. -
Natural Gas
Leaking natural gas from a field in New London, Texas kills 425 students in a school. -
Nuclear Test
Chalk River nuclear test reactor explodes in Ontario- thousands are exposed to radiation. -
Environmental Movement
Decade begins the environmental movement. -
Silent Spring
Rachel Parson published Silent Spring. Pesticides are killers. DDT is bad. -
Torrey Canyon
120,000 pounds of oil from a ship spilled from the Torrey Canyon in the Ocean. -
Earth Day
Anniversary of the Environmental Movement. Earth Day. -
Waste
Pittson Coal Company's coal slurry impoudment dam burst unleashing 132,000,000 gallons of black waste. -
Nuclear Power Plant
Three Mile Island nulcear power plant looses coolant and partially melts down in Pennsylvania. -
Ozone
Joe Farman found a hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica. -
Chernobyl
Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine explodes releasing radiation into the atmosphere over the USSR and Wetern Europe. -
Regulations
Montreal Protocol is used to phase out ozone- depleting chemicals -
Banning leaded gasoline
The European Union bans the use of leaded gasoline as it is a public health hazard. -
Coal Slury Sludge
More than 300 gallons of coal slurry sludge was spilled when a Mass Energy Company impoundment dam collapes. -
California's water
Some sources for millions of Californians has been found to be contaminated with dangerous chemicals that stunt child development and and may cause thyroid cancer. -
Mexico's forest
A survey of satellite images shows that Mexico's forest have lost 3 million acres of forest and jungle each year in between the years 1993 and 2000. -
Black October
La Paz, Bolivia. At least 67 people are killed and 400 injured during protests over natural gas development. -
Logging
The Great Bear Forest, 5 million acres of rainforest on the west coast of Canda, is ssaved from logging. -
Biggest oil spill ever
Largest marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry occurs in the Gulf of Mexico.
