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Philadelphia committee led by Benjamin Franklin attempts to regulate waste disposal and water pollution.
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The Seneca Falls convention was held in New York and about 68 women and 32 men attended (One of them was Fredrick Douglas). They all signed the declaration of sentiments which lead to the 19th Amendment which gave women the right to vote. -
A former slave, Sojourner Truth delivers her famous speech at a Women's Rights Convention in Akron, OH. She spoke out to many people loud and proud about what she had gone through. -
Henry David Thoreau published 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 legislature of the territory of Wyoming passes America's first woman suffrage law which meant they could now office and gives women a right to vote. -
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 a London meeting to express concern over air pollution
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US Congress created the National Park Service
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Rosa Parks, a Native American female, was being forced by a white man on a city bus in Alabama but she refused to get up which showed she had self-worth. -
Rachel Carson published Silent Spring
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John F. Kennedy signs into law the Equal Pay Act which prohibited sex-based wage discrimination. -
Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act into law which bans job discrimination based on someone's race, sex, or religion. -
Betty Friedan helps to found the National Organization for Women which talks about giving every female equal right in all aspects of life; social, political, and economic life. -
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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Sally Ride was the first lady to ever go into space.
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Montreal Protocol on substances that deplete the ozone layer entered into force
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Clinton signs this act to help women that have been sexually assaulted, domestic violence, rape, stalking, etc.
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The Kyoto Protocol was negotiated in Kyoto, Japan in December. Countries that ratify this protocol commit to reducing their emissions of carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gasses
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The U.S. rejects the Kyoto Protocol
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Hillary Clinton is the first woman to receive a presidential nomination from a political party.
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The 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