Timeline for Environmental Awareness | ||||
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1892 | Sierra Club | |||
1905 | Audubon Society | |||
1922 | Izaak Walton League | |||
1935 | Wilderness Society | |||
1936 | National Wildlife Federation | |||
1951 | Nature Conservancy | |||
1961 | World Wildlife Fund | |||
1967 | Environmental Defense Fund | |||
1968 | Zero Population Growth | |||
1969 | Friends of the Earth
Union of Conceerned Scientists |
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1970 | Center for Science in the Public
Interest
Environmental Action League of Conservation Voters National Resources Defense Council |
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1971 | Green Peace | |||
1975 | Worldwatch Institute | |||
Source: Sale, Kirkpatrick. 1993. The Green Revolution - The American Environmental Movement 1962-1992. Hill and Wang, New York, 124 pp. |
Critical Events in the Environmental Arena | |
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1962 | Rachel Carson publishes Silent Spring |
1965 | Water Quality Act, Solid Waste Disposal Act, Clean Air Act (1955) amended |
1969 | Cuyahoga River bursts into flames |
1970 | Environmental Protection Agency established
OSHA (occupational safety) Earth Day, April 22 |
1972 | Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) |
1973 | Endangered Species Act |
1980 | Superfund established for toxic waste cleanup |
Source: Sale, Kirkpatrick. 1993. The Green Revolution - The American Environmental Movement 1962-1992. Hill and Wang, New York, 124 pp. |
Environmental Disasters | |
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1962 | Health effects of thalidomide publicized |
1966 | B-52 with nuclear bombs on board crashed near Spain |
1967 | Torrey Canyon oil spill
36 million gallons spilled into English Channel |
1969 | Santa Barbara oil spill |
1975 | FMC Corp. dumped 3,000 pounds of toxic waste into Ohio River |
1977 | North Sea oil spill (8.2 million gallons) |
1978 | Love Canal (Buffalo, NY) contamination
reported
Three Mile Island (PA) radiation leak from nuclear plant Amoco Cadiz tanker spilled 70 million gallons of oil off French coast |
1983 | Times Beach (MO) abandoned (PCB contaminated road oil) |
1984 | Bhopal, India leak at Union Carbide
pesticide plant
10,000+ dead and dying |
1985 | Toxic chemical leak in Institute, WV |
1986 | Chernobyl nuclear plant explosion |
1989 | Exxon Valdez tanker spills 11 million gallons of crude oil |
1991 | Persian Gulf war pollution disaster |
Source: Sale, Kirkpatrick. 1993. The Green Revolution - The American Environmental Movement 1962-1992. Hill and Wang, New York, 124 pp. |