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British Parliament passed the act
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1769 — Philadelphia committee led by Benjamin Franklin attempts to regulate waste disposal and water pollution.
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Was a American political protest by Son of Liberty in Boston Massachusetts.
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56 members of the second Continental Congress started signing The Declaration of Independence
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A tax protest in the United States.
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1854 — Henry David Thoreau publishes Walden
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War in the U.S. from 1861 to 1865 between Northern and Southern states.
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1872 — The term acid rain is coined by Robert Angus Smith in the book Air and Rain
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1866 — The term ecology is coined in German as Oekologie by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel
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Congress passed the Dawes Act
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Armed conflict between Spain and U.S.
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1905 — The term smog is coined by Henry Antoine Des Voeux in a London meeting to express concern over air pollution
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A a global war originating in Europe that lasted from the 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918
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1916 — US Congress created the National Park Service
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It was known as the Second War it involved the vast majority countries.
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Originally in the New York Magazine the book shed light on damage.
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A photograph of Earth and some of the Moons surface.
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Birthday of the Earth
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Birthday of Martin Luther King Jr it became holiday 1983.
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1989 — Montreal Protocol on substances that deplete the ozone layer entered into force
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1997 — 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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First country to do it and the US senate refused to ratify it.
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They would all cease all participation from the 2015 Paris Agreement
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Joe Bidden announced one of his first action as president was to do this.
