Enviromental timeline

By AntBallHard

  • Lacey Act

    Lacey Act
    Lacey Act prohibited the transport of illegally attained wildlife across the state lines and most notably prohibits trade in wildlife, fish, and plants that have been taken illegally.

  • Burton act

    Burton act
    Congress passed the Burton Act, which preserved Niagara Falls from hydroelectric power facilities.

  • Georgia v. Tennessee Copper Company and Ducktown Sulphur:

    Georgia v. Tennessee Copper Company and Ducktown Sulphur:
    Georgia filed suit against the Tennessee Copper Company and Ducktown Sulphur because fumes from the companies were coming across the state border

  • Raker Act

    Raker Act
    After a seven year debate between environmentalists and Californians seeking water rights, Congress passed the Raker Act, authorizing the flooding of Hetch Hetchy

  • New York v. New Jersey and Passaic Valley Sewerage Commissioners

    New York v. New Jersey and Passaic Valley Sewerage Commissioners
    New York sued New Jersey commissioners to stop dumping sewage in the New York harbor.

  • Salt Lake City was the first U.S.

    Salt Lake City was the first U.S. city to conduct a large scale survey of air pollution.

  • Conservation Work Act

    Conservation Work Act
    As part of his New Deal plan during the Great Depression, President Franklin Roosevelt asked Congress to pass the Emergency Conservation Work Act. Under the Act, thousands of unemployed young men were recruited into a peacetime army called the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), also known as Roosevelt’s tree army.

  • The first ethanol plant

    The first ethanol plant
    The first ethanol plant opened in Atchison, KS. The biofuel brand, Agrol, was sold throughout the Midwest with the slogan, “Try a tankful—you’ll be thankful.”

  • Bald Eagle Preservation Act

    Bald Eagle Preservation Act
    Congress passed the Bald Eagle Preservation Act to prevent the extinction of the national symbol. The bald eagle was removed from the endangered species list in 2007

  • Everglades National Park.

    Everglades National Park.
    President Truman established Everglades National Park. Just prior to the park’s designation, Marjorie Stoneman Douglas published The Everglades: River of Gras

  • Wilderness Act

    Wilderness Act
    Congress passed the Wilderness Act, establishing the National Wilderness Preservation System to “secure for the American people of present and future generations the benefits of an enduring resource of wilderness.” By 2001, there were 90 million acres of preserved wilderness in the U.S.