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Environmental History Timeline; Firstgov.gov – various United States government sites; The Evolution of the Conservation Movement, (1850–1920) — The Library of Congress; The Global Environmental Movement, John McCormick (London: John Wiley, 1995). American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau, Bill McKibben, ed; Al Gore, fwd., (New ...
The time from roughly 15,000 to 5,000 BCE was a time of transition, and swift and extensive environmental change, as the planet was moving from an Ice age, towards an interstadial (warm period). Sea levels rose dramatically (and are continuing to do so ), land that was depressed by glaciers began lifting up again , forests and deserts expanded ...
The environmental movement is an international movement, represented by a range of environmental organizations, from enterprises to grassroots and varies from country to country. Due to its large membership, varying and strong beliefs, and occasionally speculative nature, the environmental movement is not always united in its goals.
The goal of the environmental justice movement is to achieve agency for marginalised communities in making environmental decisions that affect their lives. [190] The global environmental justice movement arises from local environmental conflicts in which environmental defenders frequently confront multi-national corporations in resource ...
1970 – Reorganization Plan No. 3 created the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) by Presidential Executive Order 1970 – Clean Air Act (Extension) . Major rewrite of CAA, setting National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS), New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) Hazardous Air Pollutant standards, and auto emissions tailpipe standards.
The environmental impact method of analysis is generally the main mode for determining what issues the environmental movement is involved in. This model is used to determine how to proceed in situations that are detrimental to the environment by choosing the way that is least damaging and has the fewest lasting implications.
Timeline: The women's rights movement in the US. Historians describe two waves of feminism in history: the first in the 19 th century, growing out of the anti-slavery movement, and the second, in ...
Timeline of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill (May 2010) Timeline of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill (June 2010) Timeline of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill (July 2010) Timeline of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill (August 2010) Timeline of environmental events; Timeline of environmental history; Timeline of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster