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Philadelphia committee led by Benjamin Franklin attempts to regulate waste disposal and water pollution.
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Founding fathers founded declaration of independence.
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Henry David Thoreau publishes Walden
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This proclamation given by Abe Lincoln
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The term ecology is coined in German as Oekologie by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel
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The term acid rain is coined by Robert Angus Smith in the book Air and Rain
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This is the first airplane flight which started years of technilogical inovation.
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The term smog is coined by Henry Antoine Des Voeux in a London meeting to express concern over air pollution
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The first efficent and affordable automobille becomes available to the public. The car even stayed in production until 1927.
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US Congress created the National Park Service
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Women gained the right to vote in the United States
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The stock market and the US ecconomy crashed starting the great depresion.
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Japan bombed Pearl Harrbor Hawii getting the US into WW2
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Japan surrendered to the US
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Rachel Carson publishes Silent Spring
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The Apollo 8 picture of Earthrise
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Earth Day – April 22., millions of people gather in the United States for the first Earth Day organized by Gaylord Nelson, former senator of Wisconsin, and Denis Hayes, Harvard graduate student. US Environmental Protection Agency established
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Montreal Protocol on substances that deplete the ozone layer entered into force
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The evil USSR falls and ends the cold war between the US.
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The Kyoto Protocol was negotiated in Kyoto, Japan in December. Countries that ratify this protocol commit to reduce their emissions of carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases
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U.S. rejects the Kyoto Protocol
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A terrorist attack on the world trade center changed the United States forever.
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U.S. announces it will cease participation in the Paris Agreement on climate change mitigation
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U.S. announces it will rejoin the Paris Agreement on climate change mitigation
