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Philadelphia committee lead by benjamin franklin attempts to regulate waste disposal and water pollution.
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To protest wage cuts. -
They wanted 10 hour work days. -
After Jones's dress shop was destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire she became a labor organizer. -
Henry David Thoreau publishes walden
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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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the term smog is coined by Henry Antoine Des Voeux in London meeting to express concern over air pollution.
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20,000 female workers in New York held a strike against sweatshop conditions. -
Triangle shirtwaist factory fire in New York kills nearly 150 workers. -
The bread and roses strike began by immigrant women in Lawrence, Massachusetts, ended with 23,000 men, women and children on strike and with as many as 20,000 on the picket line. -
US congress created the National Park Service.
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Frances Perkins becomes the U.S. secretary of labor, the first woman to be appointed to the U.S. cabinet. -
Equal Pay Act bans wage discrimination based on gender. -
The Apollo 8 picture of earthrise
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April 22. Millions of people gather in the United States for the first Earth Day. US Environmental Protection Agency established.
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The Coalition of Labor Union Women is founded. -
Montreal protocol on substances that deplete the ozone layer entered into force
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Was negotiated in Kyoto, Japan in December. Countries commit to reduce their emissions of carbon dioxide.
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the united states rejected the kyoto protocol.
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President Barack Obama signs the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which restored the rights of working women to sue over pay discrimination. -
U.S. announces it will cease participation in the paris agreement on climate change mitigation
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the U.S. announces it will rejoin the Paris Agreement change mitigation