Environmental Time Line

For each entry, write 2-3 complete sentences describingthe event, person or law and how it impacted the modern environmental movement. Feel free to add any other events that may have significance.

Year / Event / Description or Significance
10,000 years ago / Agricultural Revolution
275 years ago / Industrial Revolution
1838 / John Muir
1849 / Department of the Interior
1854 / Walden by Henry David Thoreau
1862 / Homestead Act
1862 / Department of Agriculture
1872 / Yellowstone National Park
1890 / Yosemite & Sequoia National Park
1892 / Sierra Club
1900 / Lacey Act
1901-1909 / Theodore Roosevelt
1905 / US Forest Service
1905 / Aldo Leopold
1905 / Gifford Pinchot
1905 / Audubon Society
1906 / Antiquities Act
1912 / US National Park Service
1934 / Taylor Grazing Act
1935 / Soil Conservation Act
1938 / Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act
1940 / Fish & Wildlife Service
1954 / Atomic Energy Act
1859 / First US oil well
1962 / Silent Spring
1963 / Wilderness Act
1968 / Wild and Scenic Rivers Act
1968 / Tragedy of the Commons
1969 / Cuyahoga River
1969 / National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
1970 / Environmental Protection Agency
1970 / Clean Air Act
1972 / Stockholm Declaration
1972 / Clean Water Act
1973 / Endangered Species Act
1973 / Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species
1973 / Federal, Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Control Act
1973 / OPEC and Oil Embargo
1974 / Safe Drinking Water Act
1974 / Roland and Molina (UCI) announcement
1975 / Surface Mining & Reclamation Act
1976 / RCRA (Resource Conservation and Recovery Act)
1976 / TSCA (Toxic Substances Control Act)
1977 / Clean Water Act
1977 / Soil & Water Conservation Act
1977 / Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act
1978 / Love canal, NY
1979 / Three Mile Island Nuclear Accident
1980 / CERCLA (Superfund)
1984 / Bhopal, India
1986 / Chernobyl
1986 / Superfund Amendment Reauthorization Act (SARA)
1987 / Montreal Protocol
1988 / Ocean Dumping Act
1989 / Exxon Valdez
1990 / Oil Pollution Prevention Act
1992 / Energy Policy Act
1994 / International Conference on Population and Development
1996 / Food Quality Protection Act
1997 / Kyoto Protocol
2006 / IPCCC
2010 / Oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico
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