Environmental Landmarks
Major Federal Legislation
- Air pollution
- Solid waste pollution
- Water pollution
- Other pollutants
- Food and Drug
- Protection against misbranding and false or harmful advertising
- Product safety
- Credit Protection
1800
- Yellowstone National Park
- Sequoia National Park
1900
- Lacey Act
- Yosemite National Park
- Muir Woods National Park
1910
- Migratory Bird Act
- Grand Canyon National Park
- Zion National Park
1920
- Gila National Park
- Bryce Canyon National Park
- Great Smoky Park
- Grand Teton National Park
1930
- Death Valley National Park
- Saguaro National Park
- Federal Bird Hunting Stamp Act
- Migratory Bird Treaty
- Olympic National Park
- Badlands National Park
1940
- Bald Eagle Protection Act
- Everglades National Park
1960
- Wilderness Act
- Endangered Species Preservation Act
- Redwood
- National Environmental Policy Act
1970
- Clean Air Act
- First Earth Day
- DDT banned
- Clean Water Act
- Marine Mammal Protection Act
- UN Environmental Program created
- Endangered Species Act
- OPEC oil embargo
- Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species
- National Forest Management Act
- Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
- Toxic Substances Control Act
- Endangered Species Act Amendment
1980
- Superfund Act
- Moratorium on whaling
- Union Carbide plant explosion
- Amercian alligator downlisted from endangered to threatened
- Montreal Protocol Agreement
- Elephant Conservation Act
- Moratorium on ivory
- Exxon Valdez oil spill
1990
- Clean Air Act reauthorized
- UN Earth Summit
- Gray wolf reintroduced into Yellowstone National Park
- Death Valley National Park
- International Conference on Population and Development
- Bald Eagle down-listed from endangered to threatened
- Red legged frog listed as threatened
- California condor experimental release in Grand Canyon
- World Food Summit
2000
2010