https://padlet.com/2708018/dx21ofm6yv8jbjwq A timeline that will introduce people, places, organizations, and legislation in relation to the environment. en-us 2020-09-25 13:27:03 UTC 2024-10-15 03:22:22 UTC hello@padlet.com 2708018 https://padlet.com/2708018/dx21ofm6yv8jbjwq/wish/779140291 2020-09-25 13:32:29 UTC https://padlet.com/2708018/dx21ofm6yv8jbjwq/wish/779140291 2708018 https://padlet.com/2708018/dx21ofm6yv8jbjwq/wish/779141526 2020-09-25 13:32:47 UTC https://padlet.com/2708018/dx21ofm6yv8jbjwq/wish/779141526 2708018 https://padlet.com/2708018/dx21ofm6yv8jbjwq/wish/779142839 A book by Thoreau, who is a Transcendentalist, that is a reflection about simple living in natural surroundings.]]> 2020-09-25 13:33:05 UTC https://padlet.com/2708018/dx21ofm6yv8jbjwq/wish/779142839 2708018 https://padlet.com/2708018/dx21ofm6yv8jbjwq/wish/779153122 The Homestead Act was signed by President Abraham Lincoln which gave citizens or future citizens up to 160 acres of public land provided they live on it, improve it, and pay a small registration fee]]> 2020-09-25 13:35:27 UTC https://padlet.com/2708018/dx21ofm6yv8jbjwq/wish/779153122 2708018 https://padlet.com/2708018/dx21ofm6yv8jbjwq/wish/779166492 The first national park]]> 2020-09-25 13:38:23 UTC https://padlet.com/2708018/dx21ofm6yv8jbjwq/wish/779166492 2708018 https://padlet.com/2708018/dx21ofm6yv8jbjwq/wish/779175178 The U.S. Forest Service was founded to provide quality water and timber for the country's benefit. Gifford Pinchot served as the first Chief of the U.S. Forest Service.]]> 2020-09-25 13:40:27 UTC https://padlet.com/2708018/dx21ofm6yv8jbjwq/wish/779175178 2708018 https://padlet.com/2708018/dx21ofm6yv8jbjwq/wish/779198309 Leopold was one of the early leaders of the American wilderness movement.]]> 2020-09-25 13:45:33 UTC https://padlet.com/2708018/dx21ofm6yv8jbjwq/wish/779198309 2708018 https://padlet.com/2708018/dx21ofm6yv8jbjwq/wish/779220054 2020-09-25 13:50:31 UTC https://padlet.com/2708018/dx21ofm6yv8jbjwq/wish/779220054 2708018 https://padlet.com/2708018/dx21ofm6yv8jbjwq/wish/779221045 Signed into law by President Theodore Roosevelt, the Antiquities Act gave the President the ability to declare historical landmarks to be national monuments.]]> 2020-09-25 13:50:44 UTC https://padlet.com/2708018/dx21ofm6yv8jbjwq/wish/779221045 2708018 https://padlet.com/2708018/dx21ofm6yv8jbjwq/wish/779231049 2020-09-25 13:53:09 UTC https://padlet.com/2708018/dx21ofm6yv8jbjwq/wish/779231049 2708018 https://padlet.com/2708018/dx21ofm6yv8jbjwq/wish/779232149 The Dust Bowl was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s.]]> 2020-09-25 13:53:24 UTC https://padlet.com/2708018/dx21ofm6yv8jbjwq/wish/779232149 2708018 https://padlet.com/2708018/dx21ofm6yv8jbjwq/wish/779243504 a United States federal law that regulates grazing on public lands to improve rangeland conditions and regulate their use. ]]> 2020-09-25 13:56:10 UTC https://padlet.com/2708018/dx21ofm6yv8jbjwq/wish/779243504 2708018 https://padlet.com/2708018/dx21ofm6yv8jbjwq/wish/779250399 Lethal smog that covered the city of London for five days that was caused by industrial pollution and high-pressure weather conditions. The smoke and fog resulted in thousands of deaths.]]> 2020-09-25 13:57:49 UTC https://padlet.com/2708018/dx21ofm6yv8jbjwq/wish/779250399 2708018 https://padlet.com/2708018/dx21ofm6yv8jbjwq/wish/779262190 2020-09-25 14:00:31 UTC https://padlet.com/2708018/dx21ofm6yv8jbjwq/wish/779262190 2708018 https://padlet.com/2708018/dx21ofm6yv8jbjwq/wish/779263063 an oil slick caught fire on the Cuyahoga River. Images of the fire motivated change to protect the environment.]]> 2020-09-25 14:00:45 UTC https://padlet.com/2708018/dx21ofm6yv8jbjwq/wish/779263063 2708018 https://padlet.com/2708018/dx21ofm6yv8jbjwq/wish/779270801 2020-09-25 14:02:41 UTC https://padlet.com/2708018/dx21ofm6yv8jbjwq/wish/779270801 2708018 https://padlet.com/2708018/dx21ofm6yv8jbjwq/wish/779271725 This legislation authorized the development of federal and state regulations to limit emissions from both industrial sources and mobile sources.]]> 2020-09-25 14:02:54 UTC https://padlet.com/2708018/dx21ofm6yv8jbjwq/wish/779271725 2708018 https://padlet.com/2708018/dx21ofm6yv8jbjwq/wish/779328921 A United States federal law that set up the basic U.S. system of pesticide regulation to protect applicators, consumers, and the environment.]]> 2020-09-25 14:16:32 UTC https://padlet.com/2708018/dx21ofm6yv8jbjwq/wish/779328921 2708018 https://padlet.com/2708018/dx21ofm6yv8jbjwq/wish/779332790 The Endangered Species Act was designed to protect imperiled species.]]> 2020-09-25 14:17:22 UTC https://padlet.com/2708018/dx21ofm6yv8jbjwq/wish/779332790 2708018 https://padlet.com/2708018/dx21ofm6yv8jbjwq/wish/779339262 The 1973 oil crisis began when the members of the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries proclaimed an oil embargo. The embargo was targeted at nations perceived as supporting Israel during the Yom Kippur War.]]> 2020-09-25 14:18:50 UTC https://padlet.com/2708018/dx21ofm6yv8jbjwq/wish/779339262 2708018 https://padlet.com/2708018/dx21ofm6yv8jbjwq/wish/779356905 The RCRA governs the disposal of hazardous and non-hazardous solid waste.]]> 2020-09-25 14:22:53 UTC https://padlet.com/2708018/dx21ofm6yv8jbjwq/wish/779356905 2708018 https://padlet.com/2708018/dx21ofm6yv8jbjwq/wish/779365875 a U.S. federal law that regulates the discharge of pollutants into the nation's surface waters, including lakes, rivers, streams, wetlands, and coastal areas.]]> 2020-09-25 14:24:57 UTC https://padlet.com/2708018/dx21ofm6yv8jbjwq/wish/779365875 2708018 https://padlet.com/2708018/dx21ofm6yv8jbjwq/wish/779378642 A law that regulates the environmental effects of coal mining in the United States. ]]> 2020-09-25 14:27:51 UTC https://padlet.com/2708018/dx21ofm6yv8jbjwq/wish/779378642 2708018 https://padlet.com/2708018/dx21ofm6yv8jbjwq/wish/779386539 Love Canal is located in upstate New York. The town was a working-class enclave with hundreds of homes and a school. The town just happened to sit atop 21,000 tons of toxic industrial waste that had been buried underground in the 1940s and '50s by a local company.]]> 2020-09-25 14:29:41 UTC https://padlet.com/2708018/dx21ofm6yv8jbjwq/wish/779386539 2708018 https://padlet.com/2708018/dx21ofm6yv8jbjwq/wish/779398935 In 1979 at Three Mile Island Nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania, a cooling malfunction caused part of the core to melt in the #2 reactor. The TMI-2 reactor was destroyed. Some radioactive gas was released a couple of days after the accident, but not enough to cause any dose above background levels to local residents.]]> 2020-09-25 14:32:31 UTC https://padlet.com/2708018/dx21ofm6yv8jbjwq/wish/779398935 2708018 https://padlet.com/2708018/dx21ofm6yv8jbjwq/wish/779413061 provides a Federal "Superfund" to clean up uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous-waste sites as well as accidents, spills, and other emergency releases of pollutants and contaminants into the environment ]]> 2020-09-25 14:35:41 UTC https://padlet.com/2708018/dx21ofm6yv8jbjwq/wish/779413061 2708018 https://padlet.com/2708018/dx21ofm6yv8jbjwq/wish/779429403 An accident at the Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India,  that released at least 30 tons of a highly toxic gas called methyl isocyanate, as well as a number of other poisonous gases.]]> 2020-09-25 14:39:18 UTC https://padlet.com/2708018/dx21ofm6yv8jbjwq/wish/779429403 2708018 https://padlet.com/2708018/dx21ofm6yv8jbjwq/wish/789244139 The Chernobyl disaster was caused by a nuclear accident that occurred on Saturday 26 April 1986, at the No. 4 reactor in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near the city of Pripyat in the north of the Ukrainian SSR.]]> 2020-09-29 18:42:27 UTC https://padlet.com/2708018/dx21ofm6yv8jbjwq/wish/789244139 2708018 https://padlet.com/2708018/dx21ofm6yv8jbjwq/wish/789248441 an international treaty designed to protect the ozone layer by phasing out the production of numerous substances that are responsible for ozone depletion.]]> 2020-09-29 18:43:31 UTC https://padlet.com/2708018/dx21ofm6yv8jbjwq/wish/789248441 2708018 https://padlet.com/2708018/dx21ofm6yv8jbjwq/wish/789251470 On the evening of March 23, 1989, Exxon Valdez left the port of Valdez, Alaska, bound for Long Beach, California, with 53 million gallons of oil onboard. The impact of the collision tore open the ship's hull, causing some 11 million gallons of crude oil to spill into the water.]]> 2020-09-29 18:44:17 UTC https://padlet.com/2708018/dx21ofm6yv8jbjwq/wish/789251470 2708018 https://padlet.com/2708018/dx21ofm6yv8jbjwq/wish/791423846 2020-09-30 14:21:25 UTC https://padlet.com/2708018/dx21ofm6yv8jbjwq/wish/791423846 2708018 https://padlet.com/2708018/dx21ofm6yv8jbjwq/wish/791424591 The essential tenet of the Kyoto Protocol was that industrialized nations needed to lessen the amount of their CO2 emissions. The Protocol was adopted in Kyoto, Japan in 1997, when greenhouse gases were rapidly threatening our climate, life on the earth, and the planet, itself.]]> 2020-09-30 14:21:34 UTC https://padlet.com/2708018/dx21ofm6yv8jbjwq/wish/791424591 2708018 https://padlet.com/2708018/dx21ofm6yv8jbjwq/wish/791432738 The Deepwater Horizon oil spill was an industrial disaster that began on April 20, 2010, in the Gulf of Mexico. It was considered to be the largest marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry.]]> 2020-09-30 14:23:18 UTC https://padlet.com/2708018/dx21ofm6yv8jbjwq/wish/791432738 2708018 https://padlet.com/2708018/dx21ofm6yv8jbjwq/wish/791444054 The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster was due to a 2011 nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Ōkuma. It was initiated by  by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.]]> 2020-09-30 14:25:41 UTC https://padlet.com/2708018/dx21ofm6yv8jbjwq/wish/791444054 2708018 https://padlet.com/2708018/dx21ofm6yv8jbjwq/wish/791450372 2020-09-30 14:27:05 UTC https://padlet.com/2708018/dx21ofm6yv8jbjwq/wish/791450372