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5004525352	Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act 1977	Regulates the environmental effects of coal mining in US	0
5004531302	Love Canal NY 1978	neighborhood in Niagra Falls site of a disaster that affected health of hundreds of its residents	1
5004549671	Three Mile Island Nuclear Accident 1979	Nuclear meltdown that occurred in Middletown Pennsylvania - cooling malfunction caused part of the core to melt in the #2 reactor.	2
5005029353	Comprehensive Environmental response compensation and liability act or superfund (CERCLA) 1980	Program designed to fund the cleanup of sites contaminated with hazardous substances and pollutants	3
5005029354	Bhopal island 1984	Chemical leak 45 tons of dangerous gas methyl from an insecticide plant	4
5005029355	Chernobyl 1986	A flawed reactor design that was operated with an inadequately trained personnel steam explosion and fires	5
5005029356	Montreal protocol 1987 (amended 1990,1992)	On substances that deplete the ozone layer international treaty designed to protect the ozone layer	6
5005029357	Exxon Valdez 1989	Oil spill in Alaska ruptured hull of tanker Exxon Valdez spilled nearly 2 gallons of oil into body of water	7
5005029358	20th anniversary of Earth Day observed by 200 million people in 141 nations 1990	The anniversary of the birth of the modern environmental movement in 1970	8
5005029359	Persian Gulf war to protect oil supplies in middle east 1991	US went to war against Iraq to protect oil supplies in the middle east	9
5005029360	Energy policy act 1992	Addresses energy production in the US energy production distribution and consumption	10
5005029361	World population hit 6 billion in 1999		11
5005029362	Kyoto Protocol 1997-2006	International treaty extends the 1992 United Nations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions	12
5005029363	Hurricane Katrina 2005	Costliest natural disaster fifth deadliest Hurricane	13
5005029364	IPCC report on climate change 2007-2008	Report on climate change desertification and global warming	14
5005029365	Go for oil spill 2010	BP operated Macondo prospect Deepwater Horizon oil spill	15
5005029366	Tsunami in Japan 2011	Earthquake off the Pacific coast of Tahoka Japan magnitude 9.0 undersea	16
5005029367	World population hits 7 billion in 2011		17
5005029368	Hurricane Sandy 2012	Deadly and distractive second costliest hurricane in US history	18
5005029369	Thomas Malthus 1798	principle of population humans would overproduce if population size is not kept under control	19
5005029370	John Muir 1838	greatly expanded us national parks by establishing them	20
5005029371	Walden By Henry David Thoreau 1854	about men who lived in isolated woods and lived a simple life	21
5005029372	Yellowstone National Park founded 1872	park in wyoming signed into law by ulysses s grant	22
5005029373	London Fog 1880	severe pollution caused by thick layer of coal smog	23
5005029374	Sierra Club founded 1892	founded by Muir- helped establish Yosemite and fought reduction on its boundaries	24
5005029375	Lacey Act founded 1900	made it illegal to import export sell acquire or purchase fish in violation of us or indian law	25
5005029376	Golden Age of conservation (Theodore Roosevelt) 1901-1909	placed governemnt in an activist role - Newlands Act	26
5005029377	First National wildlife refuge established 1903	established by exacutive order 1st was Pelican Island National Wildlife Refugee	27
5005029378	Us forest service founded and Gifford Pinchot 1905	division of us department of agricultre - Pinchot was the first chief of the forest service	28
5005029379	Aldo Leopold 1905	established environmental ethics wrote a sand county almanac	29
5005029380	US national park service founded 1912	signed by woodrow wilson created new bureau in the department of the interior to protect 35 national parks	30
5005029381	Civilian conservation corps 1933	public work relief program (new deal) built public roads bridges, etc intended to promote conservation	31
5005029382	Dustbowl 1934-1940	period of severe dust storms that damaged ecology/ agiculture of the midwest	32
5005029383	Donora Pennsylvania 1948	wall of smog led to the death of 20 people and injured 7000	33
5005029384	Sand County almanac 1949	nonfiction novel that promoted conservation	34
5005029385	London smog 1952	caused by use of coal killed thousands	35
5005029386	Minamata Japan 1953	2252 died due to methyl mercury poisoning caused by pollution	36
5005029387	Silent spring published by Rachel Carson 1962	documented detrimental affectson the environment and birds	37
5005029388	Wilderness act 1963	estimated area of wilderness protected against permanent structures	38
5005029389	Pollution of Lake eerie 1965-1969	conatined high levels of phosphorus and nitrogen and contributed to eutrophication	39
5005029390	population bomb 1968	environmental books written by Dvaid Bower	40
5005029391	Tragedy of the commons 1968	every individual reaps the greatest benefit froma resource selfishly	41
5005029392	Cuyahoga River fire 1969	river so polluted it caught fire- helped passage of the clean water act	42
5005029393	National environmental policy act 1969 (NEPA)	promotes advancement of environment and created the presidnets council on environmental quality	43
5005029394	First Earth Day 1970	drew attention to environment and promoted ecofriendly ideals	44
5005029395	Environmental protection agency established 1970	created to protect human health and the environment	45
5005029396	Clean air act established 1970	federal law to control air pollution on a national level	46
5005029397	Clean water act 1972	federal law governing water pollution	47
5005029398	Endangered species act 1973	provides conservation of species that are endangered and the ecosystems they depend on	48
5005029399	FIFRA 1973	federal law that established basic us system of pesticide regulation to protect the environment	49
5005029400	OPEC and oil embargo 1973	any nation supporting israel will be prohibited from buying their oil- end of era of cheap gas	50
5005029401	Roland and Molina (UCI) announce that CFCs are depleting the ozone layer 1974	discovered that CFCs convert ozone to oxygen and attack other ozone molecules	51
5005029402	Safe drinking water act 1974	fedreal law intended to ensure safe drinking water	52
5005029403	Convention on international trade in endangered species 1975	treaty to protect endangered species plants and animals	53
5005029404	RCRA resource conservation and recovery act 1976	federal law governing the disposal of solid waste and hazardous waste	54