https://padlet.com/mathewgummere/tcejrys1a2wrf6fn en-us 2021-08-21 21:51:57 UTC 2021-08-27 02:24:50 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f30e.png mathewgummere https://padlet.com/mathewgummere/tcejrys1a2wrf6fn/wish/1689153133 2021-08-21 21:53:29 UTC https://padlet.com/mathewgummere/tcejrys1a2wrf6fn/wish/1689153133 mathewgummere https://padlet.com/mathewgummere/tcejrys1a2wrf6fn/wish/1689153165 2021-08-21 21:53:38 UTC https://padlet.com/mathewgummere/tcejrys1a2wrf6fn/wish/1689153165 mathewgummere https://padlet.com/mathewgummere/tcejrys1a2wrf6fn/wish/1689153211 Transcendentalist text that promoted the philosophy of living simply and in harmony with nature.]]> 2021-08-21 21:53:51 UTC https://padlet.com/mathewgummere/tcejrys1a2wrf6fn/wish/1689153211 mathewgummere https://padlet.com/mathewgummere/tcejrys1a2wrf6fn/wish/1689153382 The Homestead Act was a law in the early USA which allowed Americans to acquire ownership of government land or the public domain, typically called a homestead.]]> 2021-08-21 21:54:00 UTC https://padlet.com/mathewgummere/tcejrys1a2wrf6fn/wish/1689153382 mathewgummere https://padlet.com/mathewgummere/tcejrys1a2wrf6fn/wish/1689153424 2021-08-21 21:54:10 UTC https://padlet.com/mathewgummere/tcejrys1a2wrf6fn/wish/1689153424 mathewgummere https://padlet.com/mathewgummere/tcejrys1a2wrf6fn/wish/1689153470 Gifford Pinchot was an American forester and politician. He served as the 4th Chief of the U.S. Division of Forestry and as the 1st head of the United States Forest Service.]]> 2021-08-21 21:54:21 UTC https://padlet.com/mathewgummere/tcejrys1a2wrf6fn/wish/1689153470 mathewgummere https://padlet.com/mathewgummere/tcejrys1a2wrf6fn/wish/1689153505 Aldo Leopold was an American author, philosopher, naturalist, scientist, ecologist, forester, conservationist, and environmentalist. He was a professor at the University of Wisconsin and wrote A Sand County Almanac.]]> 2021-08-21 21:54:29 UTC https://padlet.com/mathewgummere/tcejrys1a2wrf6fn/wish/1689153505 mathewgummere https://padlet.com/mathewgummere/tcejrys1a2wrf6fn/wish/1689153543 2021-08-21 21:54:40 UTC https://padlet.com/mathewgummere/tcejrys1a2wrf6fn/wish/1689153543 mathewgummere https://padlet.com/mathewgummere/tcejrys1a2wrf6fn/wish/1689153577 The first United States law to provide general protection for any general kind of cultural or natural resource. It established the first national historic preservation policy for the United States.]]> 2021-08-21 21:54:51 UTC https://padlet.com/mathewgummere/tcejrys1a2wrf6fn/wish/1689153577 mathewgummere https://padlet.com/mathewgummere/tcejrys1a2wrf6fn/wish/1689153635 2021-08-21 21:55:07 UTC https://padlet.com/mathewgummere/tcejrys1a2wrf6fn/wish/1689153635 mathewgummere https://padlet.com/mathewgummere/tcejrys1a2wrf6fn/wish/1689153669 The Dust Bowl was the name given to the drought-stricken Southern Plains region of the United States, which suffered severe dust storms during a dry period in the 1930s.]]> 2021-08-21 21:55:13 UTC https://padlet.com/mathewgummere/tcejrys1a2wrf6fn/wish/1689153669 mathewgummere https://padlet.com/mathewgummere/tcejrys1a2wrf6fn/wish/1689153706 Ended open grazing on public "rangelands" and established the Division of Grazing in the Department of Interior to regulate entry and practices on around 80 million acres of previously unreserved federal lands.]]> 2021-08-21 21:55:21 UTC https://padlet.com/mathewgummere/tcejrys1a2wrf6fn/wish/1689153706 mathewgummere https://padlet.com/mathewgummere/tcejrys1a2wrf6fn/wish/1689153724 Lethal smog that covered the city of London for five days, caused by a combination of industrial pollution and high-pressure weather conditions. This combination of smoke and fog brought the city to a near standstill and resulted in thousands of deaths.]]> 2021-08-21 21:55:29 UTC https://padlet.com/mathewgummere/tcejrys1a2wrf6fn/wish/1689153724 mathewgummere https://padlet.com/mathewgummere/tcejrys1a2wrf6fn/wish/1689153757 2021-08-21 21:55:36 UTC https://padlet.com/mathewgummere/tcejrys1a2wrf6fn/wish/1689153757 mathewgummere https://padlet.com/mathewgummere/tcejrys1a2wrf6fn/wish/1689153792 An oil slick caught fire on the Cuyahoga River just southeast of downtown Cleveland, Ohio. The image that the "the river caught fire" motivated change to protect the environment. However, this was in fact the thirteenth recorded time that the river had caught fire since 1868.]]> 2021-08-21 21:55:44 UTC https://padlet.com/mathewgummere/tcejrys1a2wrf6fn/wish/1689153792 mathewgummere https://padlet.com/mathewgummere/tcejrys1a2wrf6fn/wish/1689153849 2021-08-21 21:56:01 UTC https://padlet.com/mathewgummere/tcejrys1a2wrf6fn/wish/1689153849 mathewgummere https://padlet.com/mathewgummere/tcejrys1a2wrf6fn/wish/1689153907 The United States’ primary federal air quality law, intended to reduce and control air pollution nationwide]]> 2021-08-21 21:56:15 UTC https://padlet.com/mathewgummere/tcejrys1a2wrf6fn/wish/1689153907 mathewgummere https://padlet.com/mathewgummere/tcejrys1a2wrf6fn/wish/1689153954 Provides for federal regulation of pesticide distribution, sale, and use. All pesticides distributed or sold in the United States must now be registered.]]> 2021-08-21 21:56:29 UTC https://padlet.com/mathewgummere/tcejrys1a2wrf6fn/wish/1689153954 mathewgummere https://padlet.com/mathewgummere/tcejrys1a2wrf6fn/wish/1689153992 Passed with bipartisan support in 1973, the law allows individuals and organizations to petition to have a species listed as endangered or threatened. The law requires protection for critical habitat areas and the development and implementation of recovery plans for listed species.]]> 2021-08-21 21:56:39 UTC https://padlet.com/mathewgummere/tcejrys1a2wrf6fn/wish/1689153992 mathewgummere https://padlet.com/mathewgummere/tcejrys1a2wrf6fn/wish/1689154052 During the 1973 Arab-Israeli War, Arab members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) imposed an embargo against the United States in retaliation for the U.S. decision to re-supply the Israeli military and to gain leverage in the post-war peace negotiations.]]> 2021-08-21 21:56:54 UTC https://padlet.com/mathewgummere/tcejrys1a2wrf6fn/wish/1689154052 mathewgummere https://padlet.com/mathewgummere/tcejrys1a2wrf6fn/wish/1689154062 The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, enacted in 1976, is the principal federal law in the United States governing the disposal of solid waste and hazardous waste.]]> 2021-08-21 21:56:58 UTC https://padlet.com/mathewgummere/tcejrys1a2wrf6fn/wish/1689154062 mathewgummere https://padlet.com/mathewgummere/tcejrys1a2wrf6fn/wish/1689154098
The CWA made it unlawful for any person to discharge any pollutant from a point source into waters of the United States, unless a permit was obtained.]]> 2021-08-21 21:57:07 UTC https://padlet.com/mathewgummere/tcejrys1a2wrf6fn/wish/1689154098 mathewgummere https://padlet.com/mathewgummere/tcejrys1a2wrf6fn/wish/1689154139 The Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 is the primary federal law that regulates the environmental effects of coal mining in the United States. SMCRA created two programs: one for regulating active coal mines and a second for reclaiming abandoned mine lands.]]> 2021-08-21 21:57:20 UTC https://padlet.com/mathewgummere/tcejrys1a2wrf6fn/wish/1689154139 mathewgummere https://padlet.com/mathewgummere/tcejrys1a2wrf6fn/wish/1689154157 Love Canal is a neighborhood in Niagara Falls, New York, United States, infamous as the location of a 0.28 km² landfill that became the site of an enormous environmental disaster in the 1970s.]]> 2021-08-21 21:57:28 UTC https://padlet.com/mathewgummere/tcejrys1a2wrf6fn/wish/1689154157 mathewgummere https://padlet.com/mathewgummere/tcejrys1a2wrf6fn/wish/1689154183 The Three Mile Island accident was a partial meltdown of reactor number 2 of Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, near Harrisburg, and subsequent radiation leak that occurred on March 28, 1979.]]> 2021-08-21 21:57:35 UTC https://padlet.com/mathewgummere/tcejrys1a2wrf6fn/wish/1689154183 mathewgummere https://padlet.com/mathewgummere/tcejrys1a2wrf6fn/wish/1689154222 CERCLA is informally called Superfund. It allows EPA to clean up contaminated sites. It also forces the parties responsible for the contamination to either perform cleanups or reimburse the government for EPA-led cleanup work.]]> 2021-08-21 21:57:43 UTC https://padlet.com/mathewgummere/tcejrys1a2wrf6fn/wish/1689154222 mathewgummere https://padlet.com/mathewgummere/tcejrys1a2wrf6fn/wish/1689154249 The Bhopal disaster, also referred to as the Bhopal gas tragedy, was a gas leak incident on the night of 2–3 December 1984 at the Union Carbide India Limited pesticide plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India.]]> 2021-08-21 21:57:50 UTC https://padlet.com/mathewgummere/tcejrys1a2wrf6fn/wish/1689154249 mathewgummere https://padlet.com/mathewgummere/tcejrys1a2wrf6fn/wish/1689154271 The Chernobyl disaster was 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 in the Soviet Union.]]> 2021-08-21 21:57:57 UTC https://padlet.com/mathewgummere/tcejrys1a2wrf6fn/wish/1689154271 mathewgummere https://padlet.com/mathewgummere/tcejrys1a2wrf6fn/wish/1689154304 The Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, also known simply as the Montreal Protocol, is an international treaty designed to protect the ozone layer by phasing out the production of numerous substances that are responsible for ozone depletion.]]> 2021-08-21 21:58:05 UTC https://padlet.com/mathewgummere/tcejrys1a2wrf6fn/wish/1689154304 mathewgummere https://padlet.com/mathewgummere/tcejrys1a2wrf6fn/wish/1689154327 The Exxon Valdez oil spill was a manmade disaster that occurred when Exxon Valdez, an oil tanker owned by the Exxon Shipping Company, spilled 11 million gallons of crude oil into Alaska's Prince William Sound on March 24, 1989.]]> 2021-08-21 21:58:14 UTC https://padlet.com/mathewgummere/tcejrys1a2wrf6fn/wish/1689154327 mathewgummere https://padlet.com/mathewgummere/tcejrys1a2wrf6fn/wish/1689154368 2021-08-21 21:58:22 UTC https://padlet.com/mathewgummere/tcejrys1a2wrf6fn/wish/1689154368 mathewgummere https://padlet.com/mathewgummere/tcejrys1a2wrf6fn/wish/1689154400 The Kyoto Protocol was an international treaty which extended the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change that commits state parties to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, based on the scientific consensus that global warming is occurring and that human-made CO₂ emissions are driving it.]]> 2021-08-21 21:58:30 UTC https://padlet.com/mathewgummere/tcejrys1a2wrf6fn/wish/1689154400 mathewgummere https://padlet.com/mathewgummere/tcejrys1a2wrf6fn/wish/1689154430 The Deepwater Horizon oil spill was an industrial disaster that began on 20 April 2010, in the Gulf of Mexico on the BP-operated Macondo Prospect, considered to be the largest marine oil spill.]]> 2021-08-21 21:58:40 UTC https://padlet.com/mathewgummere/tcejrys1a2wrf6fn/wish/1689154430 mathewgummere https://padlet.com/mathewgummere/tcejrys1a2wrf6fn/wish/1689154459 2021-08-21 21:58:49 UTC https://padlet.com/mathewgummere/tcejrys1a2wrf6fn/wish/1689154459 mathewgummere https://padlet.com/mathewgummere/tcejrys1a2wrf6fn/wish/1689154482 2021-08-21 21:58:56 UTC https://padlet.com/mathewgummere/tcejrys1a2wrf6fn/wish/1689154482 mathewgummere https://padlet.com/mathewgummere/tcejrys1a2wrf6fn/wish/1697438679 2021-08-26 02:35:06 UTC https://padlet.com/mathewgummere/tcejrys1a2wrf6fn/wish/1697438679 mathewgummere https://padlet.com/mathewgummere/tcejrys1a2wrf6fn/wish/1697439645 2021-08-26 02:35:25 UTC https://padlet.com/mathewgummere/tcejrys1a2wrf6fn/wish/1697439645 mathewgummere https://padlet.com/mathewgummere/tcejrys1a2wrf6fn/wish/1697454136 2021-08-26 02:40:19 UTC https://padlet.com/mathewgummere/tcejrys1a2wrf6fn/wish/1697454136