Environmental History Timeline

Match Year to Environmental Event

Solution

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

2. Silent Spring, by Rachel Carson was published,

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.

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

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

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

9. Congress passes the Safe Drinking Water Act.

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

6. Kyoto Protocol entered into force.

2 - C

3 - F

4 - I

5 - H

1 - A

7 - B

8 - J

9 - D

10 - E

6 - G