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The Council on Environmental Quality is established in the United States. January. The Santa Barbara oil spill occurred near Santa Barbara in Southern California in the United States. June. One of the many fires on the Cuyahoga River in Ohio spurs a number of environmental protection measures in the United States. October
The environmental awakening spurred by Carson's work was further fueled by events like the 1969 televised oil spill off the California coast. [53] It prompted many to join mainstream environmental organizations led by visionaries such as David Brower of the Sierra Club. The momentum was bolstered by the inaugural Earth Day in 1970. President ...
The Qin dynasty founds China's first empire period of China, conquers large areas of the East Asian mainland, and soon collapses, but is soon rebuilt by the Han dynasty, whose population and environmental impact is similar to that of the Roman Empire. Qin established some of the world's first environmental protection laws. [11] c. 225 BC
The nation's major environmental laws were enacted between 1969 and 1980: National Environmental Policy Act (1969) Clean Air Act (1970) Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (1972) Clean Water Act (1972) Endangered Species Act (1973) Safe Drinking Water Act (1974) Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (1976) Toxic Substances ...
In 1967, Roderick Nash published Wilderness and the American Mind, a work that has become a classic text of early environmental history.In an address to the Organization of American Historians in 1969 (published in 1970) Nash used the expression "environmental history", [4] although 1972 is generally taken as the date when the term was first coined. [5]
The agreement provides for the protection of the Antarctic environment through five specific annexes on marine pollution, fauna, and flora, environmental impact assessments, waste management, and protected areas. It prohibits all activities relating to mineral resources except scientific.
Environment portal; These articles relate to the natural environment in the decade 1910s. They include the human impact on the environment, environmental law, conservation, environmentalism and environmental issues.
The history of environmental pollution traces human-dominated ecological systems from the earliest civilizations to the present day. [1] This history is characterized by the increased regional success of a particular society , followed by crises that were either resolved, producing sustainability , or not, leading to decline.