Subcategories - Ecology, Environment, Conservation

  1. Cousins Founds SANE
  2. Cousteau Announces Large Decline in Ocean Life
  3. The Cousteau Society Is Founded
  4. The Crew of Biosphere 2 Exits After Two Years
  5. Culture Areas
  6. The Cuyahoga River Bursts into Flames
  7. Darling Founds the National Wildlife Federation
  8. Design for the Real World Reorients Industrial Design
  9. Dioxin Causes Chloracne in West German Chemical Workers
  10. Dioxin Contamination Forces Evacuation of Times Beach
  11. Diquat Herbicide Is Developed for Weed Control
  12. Disposable Diapers Are Introduced
  13. Donora, Pennsylvania, Suffers Deadly Temperature Inversion
  14. Drought Begins in the Sahel Region of Africa
  15. Du Pont Introduces Freon
  16. The Dust Bowl Chokes the Central United States
  17. Dutch Elm Disease Arrives in the United States
  18. D’Eaubonne Coins the Term “Ecofeminism”
  19. Earth Day 1970
  20. The Earth Resources Technology Satellite Is Launched
  21. Earth Summit Convenes in Rio de Janeiro
  22. Earthquake Levels San Francisco
  23. Earthquakes Devastate Mexico City
  24. Earthwatch Is Founded
  25. The Echo Park Dam Proposal Is Defeated
  26. Ecodefense Advocates “Monkeywrenching”
  27. The Ecology Party Is Founded in Great Britain
  28. Egypt’s Aswan High Dam Is Dedicated
  29. England’s Windscale Reactor Releases Radiation
  30. Environmental Protection Agency Bans Pesticide Chlorpyrifos
  31. The Environmental Protection Agency Is Created
  32. Environmentalists Defeat the Cross-Florida Barge Canal
  33. Environmentalists Defeated in Sierra Club v. Morton
  34. The EPA Is Empowered to Regulate Toxic Chemicals
  35. The EPA Publicizes the Dangers of Secondhand Smoke
  36. European Nations Open Superphénix
  37. Euthenics Calls for Pollution Control
  38. An Explosion Occurs in the Chalk River Nuclear Reactor
  39. The Exxon Valdez Spill Devastates Alaskan Wildlife
  40. Exxon Valdez Spills Crude Oil Off Alaska
  41. The Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act Is Approved
  42. The Federal Facility Compliance Act Is Passed
  43. Federal Power Commission Disallows Kings River Dams
  44. Fires Burn Much of Yellowstone National Park
  45. Fires Devastate Communities in Southern California
  46. The First British Nuclear Plant Is Opened
  47. The First Clean Air Act Is Passed
  48. The First Controlled Fission Reaction Occurs
  49. The First Genetically Engineered Food Reaches Supermarkets
  50. The First Modern Herbicide Is Introduced