Environmental Movement

By charvey536
  • First Silent Sprng Article Published in The New Yorker

    First Silent Sprng Article Published in The New Yorker

    "Disregarding the whole record of contamination and death, we continue to spray, and to spray indiscriminately." -Rachel Carson, The New Yorker
  • Silent Spring Book Published

    Silent Spring Book Published

  • Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act Amendment of 1964

  • President Nixon Inaugurated

    President Nixon Inaugurated

    "The Nixon Administration, although preoccupied with an unpopular war and a recession - ridden economu, took some stopgap action on the environmental front in 1969." -Jack Lewis, The Birth of EPA

  • National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 Enacted

  • State of the Union Address

    "The 1970s a historic period when, by conscious choice, [we] transform our land into what we want it to become." -President Nixon

  • 37-Point Environment Action Program Established

    The goal of this program was to strengthen federal programs for dealing with water and air pollution.

  • Water Quality Improvement Act of 1970

  • First Earth Day Celebration

  • William D. Ruckelshaus Nominated as Administrator of EPA

  • EPA Opened Their first Office

    The EPA opened its suite in northwest Washington, D.C.

  • The Environmental Protection Agency Established

  • Clean Air Act Signed

    "The CAA took dead aim against America's leading source of pollution; the automobile." -Jack Lewis, The Birth of EPA