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National park service Act
is a United States federal law that established the National Park Service (NPS), an agency of the United States Department of the Interior. The Act was signed into law on August 25, 1916, by President Woodrow Wilson, and is located in Title 16 of the United States Code. -
Love Canal Disaster
In 1920 the land was sold to nearby Niagara Falls, a growing industrial town that immediately started using the pit as a dumping ground for chemical wastes. By the 1970s, the Love Canal became the site of one of the worst environmental disasters in American history. -
Bald Eagle Protection act
a legislation in the United States of America that protects two species of eagle. The Bald Eagle was chosen as a national emblem of the United States by the Continental Congress of 1782 and was given legal protection by the Bald Eagle Protection Act of 1940. This act was expanded to include the Golden Eagle in 1962.Since the original Act, the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act has been amended several times. -
Public Health Service Act
The Public Health Service Act is a United States federal law enacted in 1944 and is the structure of the PHS -
Antarctic treaty System
regulate international relations with respect to Antarctica, Earth's only continent without a native human population.The treaty, entering into force in 1961 and currently having 50 signatory nations, sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve, establishes freedom of scientific investigation and bans military activity on that continent. -
Silent Spring Published
a book written by Rachel Carson and published by Houghton Mifflin on September 27, 1962. The book is widely credited with helping launch the contemporary American environmental movement. -
Clean air Act
a United States federal law designed to control air pollution on a national level. It requires the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to develop and enforce regulations to protect the public from airborne contaminants known to be hazardous to human health. The 1963 version of the legislation established a research program requiring regulatory controls for air pollution. -
Endangered Species Conservation act
The Endangered Species Act of 1969 was an expansion of the Endangered Species Preservation Act of 1966 which authorized the United States Secretary of the Interior to develop a comprehensive list of species or subspecies of animals threatened with worldwide extinction. It also prohibited the importation from any foreign country any animal-whole or in part, any product, or any egg belonging to a species on that list. -
National Environmental Policy Act
The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) is a United States environmental law that established a U.S. national policy promoting the enhancement of the environment and also established the President's Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ). As one of the most emulated statutes in the world, NEPA has been called the modern-day equivalent of an “environmental Magna Carta”. -
First earth Day
Earth Day is an annual day on which events are held worldwide to demonstrate support for environmental protection. Earth Day is observed on April 22 each year. The April 22 date was designated as International Mother Earth Day by a consensus resolution adopted by the United Nations in 2009.Earth Day is now coordinated globally by the Earth Day Network,and is celebrated in more than 192 countries every year.The name and concept of Earth Day was pioneered by John McConnell in 1969 at a UNESCO Conf -
EPA formed
Born in the wake of elevated concern about environmental pollution, EPA was established on December 2, 1970 to consolidate in one agency a variety of federal research, monitoring, standard-setting and enforcement activities to ensure environmental protection. -
Clean Water Act
It is an amendment made in 1972 to the Federal Water Pollution Control Act that helps the EPA regulate the discharge of pollutants into water. -
U.N. Environment program Created
coordinates United Nations environmental activities, assisting developing countries in implementing environmentally sound policies and practices. It was founded as a result of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in June 1972 and has its headquarters in the Gigiri neighborhood of Nairobi,Kenya. -
DDT Banned
DDT was banned because it was discovered that it was a carcinogen and caused bio amplification.December 31, 1972. -
Endangered Species Act
signed by Richard Nixon on December 28, 1973. It was designed to protect species that were close to extinction because of human expansion. -
Endangered Species Preservation Act
Is one of the dozens of United States environmental laws passed in the 1970s. Signed into law by President Richard Nixon on December 28, 1973, it was designed to protect critically imperiled species from extinction as a consequence of economic growth and development untempered by adequate concern and conservation. -
Toxic Substances Control Act
The Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) is a United States law, passed by the United States Congress in 1976, that regulates the introduction of new or already existing chemicals. -
Resource Conservation And Recovery Act
Enacted in 1976, is the principal federal law in the United States governing the disposal of solid waste and hazardous waste. -
Three Mile Island Accident
The Three Mile Island accident was a partial nuclear meltdown which occurred in one of the two United States Three Mile Island nuclear reactors in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, on March 28, 1979. It was the worst accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant history.The partial meltdown resulted in the release of small amounts of radioactive gases and radioactive iodine into the environment. -
Chernobyl nuclear reactor explosion
on April 26 1986 a power surge in one of the reactors of the power plant caused many explosions in the core of the reactor. This dispersed large quantities of radioactive fuel and core materials into the atmosphere. -
exxon Valdez Oil spill
The Exxon Valdez oil spill occurred in Prince William Sound, Alaska, on March 24, 1989, when Exxon Valdez, an oil tanker bound for Long Beach, California, struck Prince William Sound's Bligh Reef and spilled 260,000 to 750,000 barrels of crude oil. It is considered to be one of the most devastating human-caused environmental disasters. The Valdez spill was the largest ever in US waters. -
Establishment of US Green Building Council
built in 1993 to promote sustainability in the building and construction industry. -
Food Quality Protection Plan
The Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA), or H.R.1627, was passed unanimously by Congress in 1996 and was signed into law by former U.S. President Bill Clinton on August 3, 1996.It mandated a health-based standard forpesticides used in foods, provided special protections for babies and infants, streamlined the approval of safe pesticides, established incentives for the creation of safer pesticides, and required that pesticide registrations remain current. -
Clean Air Act Reauthorized
The Clean Air Act of 1970 (1970 CAA) authorized the development of comprehensive federal and state regulations to limit emissions from both stationary (industrial) sources and mobile sources.
