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Environmental Science Timeline
Development of Environmental Organizations and Parks
United States Department of Agriculture
1862
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Yellowstone Park established
1872
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Sequoia National Park established
1890
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Sierra Club founded
1892
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Mount Rainier Forest Reserve
1897
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Grand Canyon Park established
1908
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National Audubon Society founded
1912
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National Park Service founded
1916
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National Parks and Conservation Association founded
1919
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The Wilderness Society started
1935
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The Nature Conservancy founded
1951
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World Wide Fund for Nature founded
1961
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Redwood National Park
1968
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Greenpeace founded
1971
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Rain forest Action Network founded
1985
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Environmental Working Group founded
1992
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National Environmental Trust founded
1995
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USDA creates National Organic Program
2002
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Environmental Disasters and Major Events
Giant Sequoia cut down in CA
1853
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Second Industrial Revolution
1870 - 1914
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Gifford Pinchot becomes the head of the Division of Forestry
1898
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First national conference on industrial diseases held in Chicago
1910
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Dam in Yosemite National Park completed
1923
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100+ wildlife sanctuaries put under federal protection
1929
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First of Dust Bowl storms
1933
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Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
1945
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U.S. ran first underground nuclear test
1957
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The Cuyahoga River fire
1969
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Chernobyl nuclear disaster
1986
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Exxon Oil Spill
1989
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Half of the world's rain forests destroyed
1990
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Sulfur dioxide emissions from U.S. coal plants reach 28 million tons
1990
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Hurricane Katrina
2005
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Largest marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry occurs in Gulf
2010
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7 Billionth person born
2011
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Fukushima nuclear power complex meltdowns
2011
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Philippines devastated by Typhoon Haiyan
2013
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Tornadoes in the U.S. set a new record: 811
2013
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Environmental Acts and Legislation
Chicago is the first U.S. city to create a local ordinance regulating smoke discharges
1881
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The Wilderness Act passes
1964
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Solid Waste Disposal Act
1965
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Clean Air Act
1970
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National Environmental Policy Act
1970
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Reorganization Plan No. 3 (Birth of the EPA)
1970
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Clean Water Act
1972
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EPA bans DDT
1972
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Marine Mammal Protection Act
1972
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Endangered Species Act
1973
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Safe Drinking Water Act
1974
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Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
1976
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Montreal Protocol
1987
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Ocean Dumping Ban Act
1988
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Oil Pollution Act
1990
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U.S. refuses to sign the Convention on Biological Diversity
1992
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Kyoto Protocol drawn up
1997
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Clinton declares 58 million acres off-limits to logging
2000
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President Bush rejects the Kyoto Protocol
2001
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CA enacts first cap on greenhouse gas emissions
2006
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Major Publications and Reports
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
1854
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John Muir starts publications about the Sierra Nevada
1872
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The History of Standard Oil by Ida Tarbell
1904
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Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
1962
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Joe Farman publishes discovery of ozone hole over Antarctica
1985
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An Inconvenient Truth (documentary about Al Gore and global warming)
2006
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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert
2014
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