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Environmental Awareness Timeline
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Environmental Awareness Timeline
Sammy Opichka
July 14th, 1955
The Air Pollution Control Act
- First piece of legislation to address air pollution
- Declared that air pollution was a danger to public welfare and health
- The act left the states in charge of control and prevention and gave no means of enforcement to the federal government
1955
October 15, 1966
Endangered Species
- The first ever legislation passes regarding endangered species.
- Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to list endangered wildlife and allot $15 million per year for protection of such species.
1966
the 1st list of endangered species
1967
1st list
- Mexican duck
- Maui Parrotbill
- Masked bobwhite
- Maryland darter
- Longjaw cisco
- Little Colorado spinedace
- Laysan finchbill
- Laysan duck
- Kirtland's warbler
- Key Deer
- Kauai Oo
- Kauai Nukupuu
- Kauai Akialoa
- Indiana bat
- Humpback chub
- Hawaiian hawk
- Hawaiian goose
- Hawaiian duck
- Florida panther
- Florida manatee
- Delmarva Peninsula fox squirrel
- Cui-ui
- Crested honeycreeper
- Comanche Springs pupfish
- Whooping crane
- Yuma clapper rail
- Texas blind salamander
- Southern bald eagle
- Sonoran pronghorn
- Small Kauai thrush
- Santa Cruz long-toed salamander
- San Joaquin kit fox
- San Francisco garter snake
- Red wolf
- Puerto Rican parrot
- Palila
- Paiute cutthroat trout
- Pahrump poolfish
- Owens pupfish
- 'O'u
- Nihoa millerbird
- Moapa dace
- Gila trout
- Gila topminnow
- Everglade snail kite
- Eskimo curlew
- Dusky seaside sparrow
- Devils Hole pupfish
- Blue pike
- Akiapolaau
- Aleutian Canada goose
- American alligator
- American ivory-billed woodpecker
- Apache trout
- Attwater's greater prairie-chicken
- Bachman's warbler
- Big Bend gambusia
- Black-footed ferret
- Black toad
- Timber Wolf
- Nihoa finch
- Montana westslope cutthroat trout
- Hawaiian dark-rumped petrel
- Hawaiian crow
- Hawaiian common gallinule
- Grizzly bear
- Greenback cutthroat trout
- Desert dace
- Columbian white-tailed deer
- Colorado pikeminnow
- Clear Creek gambusia
- Cape sable sparrow
- California condor
- Blunt-nosed leopard lizard
- Tule white-fronted goose
July 1978
Love Canal
- Michael H. Brown leads to the discovery of long-term dioxin contamination at a neighborhood (Love Canal) in Niagara Falls, NY.
- 21,000 tons of toxic waste were dumped into the canal
- This lead to a significant number of birth defencts, abnormalities in children, and miscarriages.
1978
Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act
"Superfund"
- This act mandates the clean up of abandones hazardous waste sites by the parties responsible.
- The party that was responsible for the contamination at love Canal was the Hooker Chemical Company which lasted from 1942-1952.
March 28th, 1979
Middletown, PA
- The meltdown of the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant
- Causes 140,000 people to evacuate the area.
- Will take over 10 years to fully clean up.
- It will go down as the most significant accident in U.S commercial nuclear power plant history.
1979
Health Effects
Effects
- Metallic taste, erythema, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, hair loss, deaths of pets and farm and wild animals, and damage to plants.
- Unofficial investigations nad lawsuits claimes there were above-average rates of cancer and birth defects in surrounding areas.
December 6th, 1988
IPPC
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
- Established by the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environmental Program
The panel
- Provides scientific information on climate change and will release Assessment Reports in: 1990, 1995, 2001, 2007.
- This panel was rewarded a Nobel peace prize its latest Assessment Report in 2007.