Environmental Timeline Group Assignment

By tarheels72

  • 10,000 years ago: Agricultural revolution

  • 275 years ago: Industrial revolution

  • John Muir founded the Sierra Club

  • Lacey Act founded

  • Period: to

    Golden Age of Conservation (Theodore Roosevelt)

  • First National Wildlife Refuge established

  • Antiquities Act

  • US National Park Service founded

  • Taylor Grazing Act

  • Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp Act

  • Fish and Wildlife Service founded

  • Silent Spring published by Rachel Carson

  • Wilderness Act

  • Wild and Scenic Rivers Act

  • Garrett Hardin publishes “The Tragedy of the Commons

  • Cuyahoga River in Ohio caught fire

  • National Environmental policy Act (NEPA)

  • First Earth day

  • Environmental Protection Agency founded

  • Clean Air Act

  • Endangered Species Act

  • Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Control Act (FIFRA)

  • OPEC and oil embargo

  • Roland and Molina announce CFCs are depleting the ozone layer

  • Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)

  • Clean Water Act

  • Surface Mining Control and Reclamation act (SMCRA

  • Love Canal

  • Three Mile Island Nuclear Icident

  • Bhopal tragedy

  • Chernobyl Nuclear accident

  • The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) or Superfund Act

  • Montreal Protocol

  • Exxon Valdez

  • Period: to

    Kyoto Protocol

  • Energy Policy Act

  • IPCC Report on climate change

  • Deepwater Horizon/BP Oil Spill

  • World Population hit 7 Billion