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| "An Essay on the Principle of Population" 1798 |
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| Jacob Bigelow organizes Mt. Aburn Cemetery 1831 |
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| Modle for romantic cemeteries, arboretums, parks, and suburbs |
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| "Theory & Practice of Landscape Architecture" 1841 |
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| Andrew Jackson Downing constructing picturesque and beautiful landscapes upon domestic development |
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| Mechanical refrigeration invented 1851 |
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| Central Park Created 1857 |
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| Titusville, PA by Edwin L. Drake |
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| Arrives in 1869 killing hardwood trees |
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| Becomes first Nation Park in 1872 |
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| From Ordered to "Disordered" (annuals to perennials) |
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| set aside national forest reserves in Interior Department (gives Teddy Roosevelt power) |
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| Arrives in America in 1892 devastated cotton industry |
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| King of Curmpaw" and "Wild Animals I have Known" - 1894-1896 |
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| Ernest Thompson Seton (1) |
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| Teddy Roosevelt & Gifford Pinchot 1901-1910 |
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| Forest acreage rose from 51 to 175 million acres |
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| "Garden of a Commuter's Wife" 1901 |
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| 100-foot oil gusher in 1901 |
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| First room cooling device 1902 |
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| Francis G. Newland's law for homestead-scale farms |
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| "The Conquest of Arid America" 1905 |
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| William Ellsworth Smythe's promotion of irrigation |
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| Transfer forests from interior to USDA 1905 |
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| Gifford Pinchot & Teddy Roosevelt |
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| Truckee-Carson Project 1905 |
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| Child of Newlands' Reclamation Act of 1902 on Nevada River |
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| Controversy "Conservation v. Preservation" circa 1906-1913 |
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| Hetch Hetchy Valley - San Francisco needs water. |
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| Process using large amounts of energy to produce nitrogen-based fertilizers for agricultural productivity |
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| "Commission on Country Life" 1910 |
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| Teddy Roosevelt speech making farms more efficient and preserving rural community--contradiction? |
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| US branch of Boy Scouts 1910 |
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| Founded by Ernest Thompson Seton |
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| "Handbook of Nature Study" 1911 |
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| Founds Girl Scouts 1912-1915 |
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| First trip to National Park 1915 |
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| Automobile at Yellowstone |
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| Best way to get to Nat'l Parks starting 1872 |
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| This oil company found in 1907 |
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| "Fight for Conservation" 1909 |
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| Gifford Pinchot - greatest good for the greatest number for the longest time |
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| National Defense Act 1916 |
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| Making things for wartime--leads to Muscle Shoals |
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| National Park Service Act 1916 |
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| Begins constructing roads and stuff in National Parks and makes them vehicle accessible. |
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| Muscle Shoals Controversy 1920s |
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| Symbol of Private vs. Public power debate -- who has the power? |
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| Regional Planning Association of America 1920s |
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| Planning of areas starts to become important |
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| Set Trappers Lake aside for no development |
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| Population more than 50% urban from this year on. |
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| Founds Planned Parenthood 1921 |
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| Izaak Walton League founded 1922 |
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| Played central role in national refuge system |
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| USFS L-20 Regulation 1929-1939 |
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| Expands wild roadless areas from .3 to 14.2 million acres |
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| Inventor of CFC 1930 and had most affect on the atmosphere than any other single organism in Earth's history |
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| Plains drought that begins 1930 |
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| Hawk's Nest incident 1930-1932 |
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| Construction of tunnel through mtn 700 die within 5 years from silicosis |
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| "Flight from the City" 1933 |
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| Ralph Borsodi's celebration of self-sufficiency and life in the rural countryside |
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| Aldo Leopold's work -- Great good for the greatest number (now includes non-humans) for the longest time. |
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| New Deal legislation that created labor force for conservation throughout nation |
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| Tennessee Valley Authority Act 1933 |
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| New Deal legislation. Region-wide planning and helps educate farm families. |
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| Proctor and Gamble release this product in 1933 |
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| Dreft Phosphate detergent harmful to environment (Lake Erie) |
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| First Federal "Duck Stamp" 1934 |
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| Finances federal game refuge system and land acquisition in order to turn it into state/national refuges |
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| National Resources Board 1934 |
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| New Deal legislation. First report promoted planning in preparation for war. |
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| Founded Wilderness Society 1935 |
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| Robert Sterling Yard -- elite high-class members |
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| Product of Newlands' Reclamation Act of 1902 and big dam |
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| Helped daily shopping to become weekly shopping with its arrival 1937 |
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| "Mother Earth Laid Bare" and "The Crucified Land" 1938-1939 |
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| Alexandre Hogue's expression of Dust Bowl raping the land and dangers of erosion |
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| Founded "Organic Farming & Gardening" 1942 |
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| J.I. Rodale became leading exponent of anti-chemical composted soil with this book |
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| First exposure/evidence of pollution phenomenon 1942 |
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| "World Minerals and World Peace" 1943 |
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| Brookings Institution - "A modern war cannot be fought without tremendous quantities of a few minerals." |
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| Atomic Bombs: 1 tested in New Mexico, 2 dropped over Japan (Hiroshima and Nagasaki) |
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| Miracle insecticide available to public |
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| "America's Needs and Resources" 1947 |
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| Twentieth Century Fund's coordination of resource access essential to stability of a post-war world |
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| US becomes net importer of it. |
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| "Our Plundered Planet" and "The Road to Survival" 1948 |
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| Apocalyptic best-selling novels by Osborn and Vogt respectively |
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| 20 die in Pittsburgh, PA because of this 1948 |
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| Killer smog that affects 6000 people |
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| "A Sand County Almanac" 1949 |
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| Aldo Leopold's environmental philosophy. Contains essays "Thinking Like A Mtn" "Good Oak" "Red Legs Kicking" and "The Upshot" |
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| London phenomenon that causes deaths of 4000 |
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| "Living the Good Life" 1954 |
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| Helen & Scott Nearing move to Vermont farm after being black-listed and practice self-sufficiency |
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| "This is "Dinosaur" - 1955 |
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| Wallace Stegner -- takes pictures of Echo Park to save it from being "Hetch Hetchy" all over again |
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| Congress declares this is no longer allowed in 1956 |
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| Prediction (in 1956) that US oil production will peak 1971 |
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| National Interstate & Defense Highway Act 1956 |
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| Sets ceiling on utilities' liability for Nuclear Power Plant reactor accidents -- environmentalists don't like. |
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| "This is the American Earth" 1960 |
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| Ansel Adams and Nancy Newhall's book of landscape images |
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| Birth Control Pill Released 1960 |
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| Margaret Sanger gets this drug to pass. |
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| His research indicates linkage of asbestos to mesothelioma 1960 |
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| This Middle-Eastern oil company forms 1960 |
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| Largest wave of rural retreats during 20th century |
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| Semidwarf introduced 1961 |
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| Rachel Carson. nuff said. |
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| "The Place No One Knew" 1963 |
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| Sierra Club's book to lament los of wilderness to dam at Glen Canyon. |
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| Enters White house with strong agenda for beautifying America 1963 |
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| Claudia Alta Taylor aka Lady Bird Johnson |
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| Senate Subcommittee on Air and Water Pollution 1963 |
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| Sen. Edmund Muskie becomes congressional leader for pollution for next decade. |
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| "In Wildness is the Preservation of the World" 1964 |
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| Eliot Porter's colored photos put to Thoreau's words |
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| "Where earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain" 9.1 Million acres |
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| "Beauty for America" and Highway Beautification Act 1965 |
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| Lady Bird Johnson "ugliness is bitterness" |
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| Near death in 1965 due to phosphate detergent |
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| Terry & Renny Russell escaping car with car--travel around US to see all it had to offer away from cars. |
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| "Flooding the sistine chapel so tourists can get nearer the ceiling" 1967 |
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| Sierra Club fights for Grand Canyon with this slogan |
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| Torrey Canyon tanker disaster |
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| "Whole Earth Catalog" 1968 |
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| Steward Brand states "We are as gods and might as well get good at it." |
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| "Tragedy of the Commons" 1968 |
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| "The Population Bomb" (book) 1969 |
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| Paul R. Ehrlich's proposition to cut off aid to poor in fear of population crisis |
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| ON FIRE!! AHHHH!!! (again) |
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| "The Blowout Heard Around the World" 1969 |
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| Sen. Gaylord Nelson's idea comes to life 1970 |
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| National Environmental Policy Act 1970 |
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| NEPA symbolically important legislation |
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| US no longer this in 1971 |
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| No longer world's largest oil producer |
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| "We Have Met The Enemy, and He Is Us!" |
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| "Small Is Beautiful" 1973 |
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| E.F. Schumacher's like of small individual energy technologies |
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| US oil price goes up 130% because of this. |
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| Controversy of toxic waste in local community 1974-1980 |
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| Love Canal - Lois Gibbs emerges as local leader. |
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| "Manifesto: Mad Farmers Liberation Front" and "The Unsettling of America" 1974 and 1977 respectively |
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| Wendell Berry - Culture as agriculture |
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| Amory Lovins distinguishes between soft and hard energy technologies |
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| Three Mile Island, PA 1979 |
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| American Power Plant partial melton of Unit 2 "The Invisible Accident" |
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| Dave Foreman gains public attention |
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| Superfund legislation 1980 |
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| In wake of Love Canal problems, helps fund cleanups of environmental hazards |
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| Not in my backyard campaigns |
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| These anti-environmentalists take office in 1983 |
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| Ronal Reagan and James Watt |
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| India 2500 killed within leak of gas -- injured 150,000 |
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| Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Accident 1986 |
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| Causes $200 billion in damages in Ukraine and killed 56 people, 4000 extra cancers |
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| EPA bans this fire-proof material in 1986 |
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| "Toxic waste and race in the US" 1987 |
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| United Church of Christ Commission for Racial Justice -- argue minority-dominated populations get stuck with environmental hazards |
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| Bill McGibbon's climate change |
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| Spills 11 million barrels in 1989 |
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| Spilt in Party late 20th century |
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| Dems vs. Reps over environmentalism |
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