Environmental Movement

Environmental Movement

<p> ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT</p><p>Colonial Period Puritans – nature as evil and sinful – something that DDT (banned in 1972) – pesticides & chemicals needed to be managed and controlled Wilderness Society vs. Native American view of nature as sacred. National Audubon Society Nature Conservancy Early America Pre Civil War Earth Day – 4/22/70 Hudson River School of Art 1820s Endangered Species Act Rocky Mountain School of Art Cayuhoga River – Cleveland - on fire (1969) Transcendentalism Smog – air pollution – LA & Denver Emerson’s Nature (1836) Acid Rain Thoreau’s Walden (1854) EPA – National Environmental Protection Act Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass (1855) (1970) Clear Air Act (1970) Late 1800s Clear Water Act (1972) Gold Rush in Ca – hydraulic mining – strip mining Carter – solar panels on the White House George Marsh Man and Nature 1864 Energy Crisis & gas shortages Devastation of the buffalo/bison Department of Energy 1977 Gold Rush - sacred Black Hills Carter’s Energy Conservation program 1880 – Stephan Forbes – Zoologist – Taxing “gas guzzlers” – fuel efficiency incentives National Park System – Yellowstone in 1872 CAFE (Corporate Average Fuel Economy) Arbor Day 1872 Three Mile Island – nuclear power fears Yosemite NP 1890 Love Canal – Hooker Chemical – EPA Urban pollution from Industrialization Hostage John Muir founds the Sierra Club (1892) Superfund (1980) Greenpeace 1900-1950 Reagan Deregulation Theodore Roosevelt Reagan removed the solar panels from the White Preservation vs. Conservation House National Reclamation Act or Newlands “Sagebrush Rebellion” – Francis Newlands (1902) James Watt – Reagan’s Sec. of Interior – open up Gifford Pinchot – National Forest Service public lands Hetchy-Hetch Controversy 1906-1908 Defunding of EPA – Limited automobile emissions National Conservation Commission (1908) standards Ballinger-Pinchot Controversy Exxon-Valdez oil spill (1989) National Park Servive - 1916 Global Warming/Climate Change “The Great Plow up” The Dust Bowl Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act (1935) National Wildlife Federation (1936) DDT is devloped as a pesticide (1939) Ecology –Aldo Leopold - The Sand County - Almanac (1949)</p><p>1950s-1990s Nuclear Testing First Nuclear Power Plant (1954) Nuclear Test-ban Treaty (1963) Sierra Club reborn – Bernanrd De Voto – Echo Park - Valley Dam Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (1962)</p>

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