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The Clear Act
The clear act passes, allocating 95 million for the study and cleanup of air and water pollution -
The Water Quality Act
Enhancing federal control over water quality initially set by the federal water pollution control act of 1948 these federal standards will become the baseline for statewide water quality levels -
Vehicles
The motor vehicle air pollution control act sets the first federal automobile emission standards. -
The Santa Barbara
The Santa Barbara oil well blowout spills over 200,000 gallons of oil into the ocean for 11 days straight, due to the destruction and extreme pollution of the California coastline, the spill lead directly to reforms in the energy industry -
Earth Day
The first Earth Day takes the form of a nationwide protest against environment ignorance. An estimated 20 million people participated across the country . which become the largest demonstration in American History -
Three Mile Island
The meltdown of the nuclear powerplant in Middletown, PA, causes the evacuation of 140,000 people. It took more than 10 years to clean up fully, -
Early 1980's
The world population hits 4.5 billion, the total economic loss caused by great weather and flooding catastrophes increases by nearly 55% in the 1980s. The Arctic ice cap continues to melt. -
EPCRA
Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-know Act, A subset of the Superfund Amendments and Reorganization Act, required industries to report toxic releases to the general public. The federal law creates the new State Emergency Response Commission to enforce these new requirements -
NASA
NASA scientist James Hansen warns Congress about the consequences of global warming and argues that the Ozone layer is eroding much faster than was predicted. -
President Reagan
He signed the Ocean Dumping Ban Act Of 1988, this law prohibits all waste dumping in the ocean and it started taking place in 1992