The Environmental Debate, Third Edition

Appendix I: Significant Dates in American Environmental History The following list includes important events in environmental hi ...

286 The Environmental Debate 1828 First attempt at federal forest management undertaken with live oaks on Santa Rosa Island, Flo ...

Appendix I: Significant Dates in American Environmental History 287 April 10 designated as Arbor Day as a result of a campaign s ...

288 The Environmental Debate 1892 Sierra Club organized by John Muir. 1894 Carey Act distributes federal lands to various states ...

Appendix I: Significant Dates in American Environmental History 289 1908 Grand Canyon named a national monument. Governors’ Conf ...

290 The Environmental Debate Mineral Leasing Act establishes regulations for mining on federal lands. 1922 Izaak Walton League o ...

Appendix I: Significant Dates in American Environmental History 291 Convention on Nature Protection and Wildlife Preservation in ...

292 The Environmental Debate Symposium on Man’s Role in Changing the Face of the Earth, inspired by Marsh’s Man and Nature (publ ...

Appendix I: Significant Dates in American Environmental History 293 1964 Land and Water Conservation Fund Act sets aside funding ...

294 The Environmental Debate 1969 National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) creates the Council on Environmental Quality; require ...

Appendix I: Significant Dates in American Environmental History 295 Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement between the United State ...

296 The Environmental Debate Community of Love Canal, near Niagara, New York, evacuated because of pres- ence of toxic wastes. C ...

Appendix I: Significant Dates in American Environmental History 297 United Nations Conference on Ozone Depletion held in Vienna. ...

298 The Environmental Debate 1997 Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change, resulting from United Nations Conference on Global Change. N ...

2007 In Massachusetts et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency et al. Supreme Court rules that EPA must regulate carbon dioxide ...

300 The Environmental Debate 2016 EPA imposes new fuel economy standards on 18-wheelers, buses, delivery trucks and other heavy ...

Appendix II: Major Conservation and Environmental Organizations There are thousands of international, national, regional, statew ...

302 The Environmental Debate Earth First! is a radical advocacy organization that uses a wide range of techniques from legal act ...

Appendix II: Major Conservation and Environmental Organizations 303 The National Coalition for Marine Conservation is the oldest ...

304 The Environmental Debate Rainforest Action Network works for the protection of forests and challenges businesses whose profi ...