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In 1902 the bureau of reclamation, a federal agency that works with the U.S. department of the manages water in the western united states.
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A neurological disease discovered in 1956 that would disturbingly affect the central nervous system with a wide range of symptoms and side effects. It was caused by consuming fish and shellfish which had been contaminated by methylmercury compound, also discharged from a chemical plant.
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A landmark during the development of the modern environmental movement. It not only created work of substantial dept and credibility that sparked widespread debate within the scientific community, But helped create policies that helped our air, water and most importantly, our health and safety.
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Once a project branching off the Niagara River, just four files from the Niagara Falls that had been used as a chemical waste dump, now just an aborted canal project. It caused countless illnesses and abnormally high rates of birth defects due to the 21,000 toxic chemicals lurking through the canal.
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A 1972 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm Sweden. This was the first global conference to address environmental issues. The specific issues addressed were of modern development, unsustainable environmental degradation, and compromising the natural systems.
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It provided a program dedicated to the conversation of both plants and animals that had been endangered. It also spoke upon the habitat of the two subjects.
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An event that took place on December 3rd of 1984, which consisted of 40 tons of methyl isocyanate leaking from a pesticide plant from Bhopal. It resulted in the lives of at least 3,800 being taken and causing premature death to many more.
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A flawed reactor design that blew up in 1986 because it was operated by poorly trained personnel. In the result of the explosion the fires let out at least 5% of radioactive waste into the environment that then latter lead to 30 total people dying. Two of those people were plant workers and the other twenty-eight people died within weeks of the accident.
https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/safety-and-security/safety-of-plants/chernobyl-accident -
A protocol that was adoped on December 11th 1997 that became known as the first international treaty to set leaglly binding targets to cut greenhouse gas emissions in Kyoto Japan. This Protocol entered into force in 2005 and was approved by 192 parties.
https://www.un.org/en/climatechange/marking-kyoto-protocol%E2%80%99s-25th-anniversary -
A 2006 documentary that represents a former vice president and Environmental activist AI Gore. This movement was to raise awareness of climate change and the dangers that go with it. The documentary transformed how people everywhere saw the world around them.
https://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/conservation/conservationists/inconvenient-truth-sequel-al-gore.htm#:~:text=The%202006%20documentary%20%22An%20Inconvenient,a%20wide%20release%20in%20July