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Mining Act was voted- forces the sale of federal lands and prevents the government from collecting royalties for extrcting minerals.
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Killer fog in London kills 700 people.
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Chicago is the first American city to make a local ordinance regulating smoke discharges.
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Forest Reserve Act authorized the president to set aside forest reserves.
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Sierra Club is founded by John Muir
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Mine disaster kills 362 coal miners in Monongha, West Virginia.
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Public Health Service Act authorizes government investigation of water pollution.
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The National Park service is created.
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General Motors researchers disocver leaded gasoline.
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More than 100 wildlife sanctuaries have federal protection.
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Dust Bowl begins- environmental and agricultural damage.
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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.
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Leaking natural gas from a field in New London, Texas kills 425 students in a school.
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Chalk River nuclear test reactor explodes in Ontario- thousands are exposed to radiation.
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Decade begins the environmental movement.
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Rachel Parson published Silent Spring. Pesticides are killers. DDT is bad.
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120,000 pounds of oil from a ship spilled from the Torrey Canyon in the Ocean.
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Anniversary of the Environmental Movement. Earth Day.
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Pittson Coal Company's coal slurry impoudment dam burst unleashing 132,000,000 gallons of black waste.
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Three Mile Island nulcear power plant looses coolant and partially melts down in Pennsylvania.
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Joe Farman found a hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica.
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Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine explodes releasing radiation into the atmosphere over the USSR and Wetern Europe.
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Montreal Protocol is used to phase out ozone- depleting chemicals
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The European Union bans the use of leaded gasoline as it is a public health hazard.
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More than 300 gallons of coal slurry sludge was spilled when a Mass Energy Company impoundment dam collapes.
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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.
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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.
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La Paz, Bolivia. At least 67 people are killed and 400 injured during protests over natural gas development.
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The Great Bear Forest, 5 million acres of rainforest on the west coast of Canda, is ssaved from logging.
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Largest marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry occurs in the Gulf of Mexico.
