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This revolution was the switch from humans being hunters and gatherers. To settling down and growing crops.
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The invention of technology that made people manufacture things in factories such as cloth and clothing. Making things easier and faster.
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Organized the Sierra Club and convinced the federal government to begin Yosemite National Park in 1890 and create 21 million acres of forest preserves.
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Wrote the book Walden, about simple living in a natural surrounding. Appreciated the environmental and social consequences of deforestation and wildlife depletion on the island.
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Signed into law by Abraham Lincoln. Encouraged western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land.
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Non profit conservation that is dedicated to protecting and restoring healthy forest ecosystems.
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The General Revision Act of 1891 reversed previous policy initiatives. Such as the Timber Culture Act of 1873, in which land fraud was readily accessible on the behalf of wealthy individuals and corporations.
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The club was one of the first large-scale environmental preservation organizations in the world, and currently engages in lobbying politicians to promote green policies.
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1900 United States law that bans trafficking in illegal wildlife.
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The agency was given a unique mission: to sustain healthy, diverse, and productive forests and grasslands for present and future generations.
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Pinchot served as the first Chief of the United States Forest Service from 1905 until his firing in 1910
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Aldo Leopold was an American author, philosopher, scientist, ecologist, forester, conservationist, and environmentalist. Wrote the Sand County Almanac.
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Protecting waterbird populations has been part of Audubon’s mission even before the official establishment of the National Audubon Society.
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After a generation-long effort, on June 8, 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt signed the Antiquities Act into law, thus establishing the first general legal protection of cultural and natural resources in the United States.
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National Park Service, a new federal bureau in the Department of the Interior responsible for protecting the 35 national parks and monuments then managed by the department and those yet to be established.
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Also known as the Dirty Thirties, was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the US and Canadian prairies during the 1930s.
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It was a public works project intended to promote environmental conservation and to build good citizens through vigorous, disciplined outdoor labor.
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Is an agency of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) that provides technical assistance to farmers and other private landowners and managers.
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United States federal law that provides for the regulation of grazing on the public lands (excluding Alaska) to improve rangeland conditions and regulate their use.
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Or the "Duck Stamp Act," as this March 16, 1934, authority is commonly called, requires each waterfowl hunter 16 years of age or older to possess a valid Federal hunting stamp.
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Is an agency of federal government within the U.S. Department of the Interior which is dedicated to the management of fish, wildlife, and natural habitats.
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Documented the detrimental effects on the environment of the indiscriminate use of pesticides.
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The Act further defined wilderness as "an area of undeveloped Federal land retaining its primeval character and influence without permanent improvements or human habitation, which is protected and managed so as to preserve its natural conditions.
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Meant to preserve certain rivers with outstanding natural, cultural, and recreational values in a free-flowing condition for the enjoyment of present and future generations.
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A river polluted by oil caught fire in 1969 causing $100,000 in damage.
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A United States environmental law that promotes the enhancement of the environment and established the President's Council on Environmental Quality.
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The embargo caused an oil crisis, or "shock", with many short- and long-term effects on global politics and the global economy.[2] It was later called the "first oil shock", followed by the 1979 oil crisis, termed the "second oil shock."
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CFCs would deplete the ozone layer is one of many theories claiming that ozone depletion would lead to doomsday.
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Public law that creates the framework for the proper management of hazardous and non-hazardous solid waste.
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Established the basic structure for regulating pollutant discharges into the waters of the United States.
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Primary federal law that regulates the environmental effects of coal mining in the United States.
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Love Canal received national attention for the public health problem originating from the disposal of 22,000 barrels of toxic waste. Numerous families were displaced from their houses, which had been contaminated with chemicals and toxic waste.
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The Three Mile Island accident was a partial nuclear meltdown that occurred on March 28, 1979, in reactor number 2 of Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States.
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The Bhopal disaster, also referred to as the Bhopal gas tragedy, was a gas leak incident in India, considered the world's worst industrial disaster.
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Provided varying degrees of special protection to over 157,000,000 acres of land, including national parks, national wildlife refuges, national monuments, wild and scenic rivers, recreational areas, national forests, and conservation areas.
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The Bhopal disaster, also referred to as the Bhopal gas tragedy, was a gas leak incident in India, considered the world's worst industrial disaster.
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The Chernobyl disaster, also referred to as the Chernobyl accident, was a catastrophic nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 in the No.4 light water graphite moderated reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near Pripyat, in what was then part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union.
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The Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer (a protocol to the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer)
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An oil tanker that gained notoriety after running aground in Prince William Sound spilling hundreds of thousands of barrels of crude oil in Alaska.
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That established the Death Valley and Joshua Tree National Parks and the Mojave National Preserve in the California desert.
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United States government act. It was passed by Congress and set goals, created mandates, and amended utility laws to increase clean energy use and improve overall energy efficiency in the United States.
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An international agreement linked to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which commits its Parties by setting internationally binding emission reduction targets.
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On this date, the world's human population was estimated to hit 6 billion, according to the United Nations.
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The Deepwater Horizon oil spill began on April 20, 2010, in the Gulf of Mexico on the BP-operated Macondo Prospect.
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Cooperation of over 190 countries in securing many positive outcomes owes much to the patience and persistence of the COP President—Manuel Pulgar-Vidal—and the spirit of Lima as we look forward to Paris—the city of lights and the city of love for our shared future and shared environment.
