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When on Earth Did That Happen??

Tanya Thomas

Created on April 8, 2024

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When on Earth Did That Happen??

Match the environmental event to the year it happened

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

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

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

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

Silent Spring, by Rachel Carson was published.

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

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

Congress passes the Safe Drinking Water Act.

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

Kyoto Protocol entered into force.

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