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Environmental Time Line For each entry, write 2-3 complete sentences describing the event, person or law and how it impacted the modern environmental movement. Feel free to add any other events that may have significance. Year Event Description or Significance 10,000 Agricultural Revolution years ago 275 years Industrial Revolution ago 1838 John Muir 1849 Department of the Interior 1854 Walden by Henry David Thoreau 1862 Homestead Act 1862 Department of Agriculture 1872 Yellowstone National Park 1890 Yosemite & Sequoia National Park 1892 Sierra Club 1900 Lacey Act 1901-1909 Theodore Roosevelt 1905 US Forest Service 1905 Aldo Leopold 1905 Gifford Pinchot 1905 Audubon Society 1906 Antiquities Act 1912 US National Park Service 1934 Taylor Grazing Act 1935 Soil Conservation Act 1938 Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act 1940 Fish & Wildlife Service 1954 Atomic Energy Act 1859 First US oil well 1962 Silent Spring 1963 Wilderness Act 1968 Wild and Scenic Rivers Act 1968 Tragedy of the Commons 1969 Cuyahoga River 1969 National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) 1970 Environmental Protection Agency 1970 Clean Air Act 1972 Stockholm Declaration 1972 Clean Water Act 1973 Endangered Species Act 1973 Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species 1973 Federal, Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Control Act 1973 1974 1974 OPEC and Oil Embargo Safe Drinking Water Act Roland and Molina (UCI) announcement 1975 Surface Mining & Reclamation Act 1976 RCRA (Resource Conservation and Recovery Act) 1976 TSCA (Toxic Substances Control Act) 1977 Clean Water Act 1977 Soil & Water Conservation Act 1977 Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act 1978 Love canal, NY 1979 Three Mile Island Nuclear Accident 1980 CERCLA (Superfund) 1984 Bhopal, India 1986 Chernobyl 1986 Superfund Amendment Reauthorization Act (SARA) 1987 Montreal Protocol 1988 Ocean Dumping Act 1989 Exxon Valdez 1990 Oil Pollution Prevention Act 1992 Energy Policy Act 1994 International Conference on Population and Development 1996 Food Quality Protection Act 1997 Kyoto Protocol 2006 IPCCC 2010 Oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico Recent Event:
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