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Reform and Reaction in the
1970’s
The New Activism
First Earth Day 1970
I. The New Activism
A. Baby Boomers leave the counterculture
B. The “me decade”
C. Birth of American Environmental
Movement
1. Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring [1962]
D. Alaskan Pipeline and Love Canal
E. Nuclear Energy
1. Three Mile Island
Environmental Backlash
F. National Environmental Policy
Act-1969
1. EPA-1970
2. DDT banned-1972
3. Endangered Species Act
G. Clash of Environmentalist and
Industrialists
H. Ralph Nader
1. Unsafe At Any Speed
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