Environmental History Timeline

Match Year to Environmental Event

Solution

A

B

C

D

e

F

G

h

i

j

1. Exxon Valdez spills 11 million gallons of crude oil into Alaska’s Prince William Sound.

2. Silent Spring, by Rachel Carson was published,

3. Residents discover that Love Canal, NY, is contaminated by buried leaking chemical containers.

4. Federal, state, and local partners initiate cleanup of the Chesapeake Bay.

5.First Earth Day celebrated, U.S. EPA created, and Clean Air Act passed.

6. Kyoto Protocol entered into force.

7. A 7.3 million square mile ozone hole is discovered over Antarctica.

8. Cuyahoga River in Ohio becomes so polluted that it catches on fire.

9. Congress passes the Safe Drinking Water Act.

10. A severe meltdown occured at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania.

1 - A

2 - C

3 - F

4 - I

5 - H

6 - G

7 - B

8 - J

9 - D

10 - E