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Philadelphia committee led by Benjamin Franklin attempts to regulate waste disposal and water pollution. -
First womens right convection organized by women, held in New york at the Seneca Falls Convention, with 300 attendees. Eventually leading to the passage of the 19th amendment granting women the right to vote. -
Sojourner Truth delivers her famous "aint I a Women?' Speech at the Womens Rights convection in Akron, Ohio. “And ain't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man—when I could get it—and bear the lash as well!...ext" -
Henry David Thoreau publishes Walden -
The term ecology is coined in German as Oekologie by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel -
The legislature of the territory of Wyoming passes A mericas first womans suffrage law, granting women the right to vote and hold office. -
The term acid rain is coined by Robert Angus Smith in the book Air and Rain -
The term smog is coined by Henry Antoine Des Voeux in a London meeting to express concern over air pollution -
US Congress created the National Park Service -
Margaret Sanger opens the first birth control clinic in the United States, Located in Brownsville, Brookly, her clinic was deemed illegal under the "comstock laws" forbidding birth control. Clinic was raided october 26, 1916. -
Jeannette Rankin of montana, a longtime activist with the National Woman Suffrage Association. -
Ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is completed, declaring "the right of citizens of the united states vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United states or by ant state on account of sex." -
Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman, and the second pilot ever to fly solo nonstop across the Atlantic. -
The act is the first state or territorial anti-discrimination law enacted in the United States in the 20th century. Elizabeth peratrovich, a Tlingit woman who was Grand President of the Alaska Native Sisterhood, spearheaded the effor tio end discrimination against alaska Natives and other non-white residents. -
Black seamstress Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat to white man on a bus in Montgomery, Ala. The move helps launch civil rights movement. -
Rachel Carson publishes Silent Spring -
John F. Kennedy signs into law the Equal Pay Act into law, prohibithing sex- based wage discrimination between men and women performing the same job in the same workplace. -
he Apollo 8 picture of Earthrise -
April 22. Millions of people gather in the United States for the first Earth Day. US Environmental Protection Agency established -
Montreal Protocol on substances that deplete the ozone layer entered into force -
The Kyoto Protocol was negotiated in Kyoto, Japan in December. Countries commit to reduce their emissions of carbon dioxide -
potential damage to the US economy -
U.S. announces it will cease participation in the Paris Agreement on climate change mitigation -
U.S. announces it will rejoin the Paris Agreement on climate change mitigation