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Greening Our Blue Planet

The 60's era was rightly known for its activist movements, from civil rights to the peace movement, to 'counter culture', social justice, and the beginnings of what would become a global environmental movement. Many of the threads for the green era began with the 'teach-ins' and the first Earth Day in 1970...

* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Day_Memories_on_the_50th_Anniversary

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The EPA recalls the first Earth Day

• https://www.epa.gov/earthday

American environmentalism dawned as a popular movement on a mild spring afternoon in 1970. Wednesday, April 22nd, brought blue skies, light breezes, and temperatures in the 60s to New York City and Washington, D.C. Much of the rest of the country enjoyed similar conditions. On that day, the influence of nature had particular meaning; the nation held a celebration of clean air, land, and water. Encouraged by the retreat of winter, millions participated.

The first Earth Day prompted, in part, by the recent moon landings. When the astronauts turned their cameras homeward, capturing first images of a blue planet, the world looked upon itself with awe and a new Whole-Earth understanding...

Earth Day flag

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_policy_of_the_United_States

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A Modern Environmental Movement Is Born

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/National_Environmental_Policy_Act

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Environmental_movement

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/California_out_in_front_in_a_Green_future

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Whole_Earth

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A California Congressional Representative Envisions an EPA

Read the story about George E. Brown

• http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/George_E._Brown_Jr

George Brown on Saving the Environment (Omnibus Environmental Bill - 1969)

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SJS/GreenPolicy Siterunner:

Congressman Brown Out in Front of Climate Action

Climate Change - Global Warming Keyword-Terms

GreenPolicy360 Siterunner: The beginnings of modern environmental and climate science can be traced to the 1960s and 1970s. The U.S. National Academy of Sciences played a key role in laying a foundation of scientific reports and data.

George Brown proposed and drafted the legislation of the first U.S. National Climate Program and shepherded its passage in 1978.

The National Climate Program Act, Public Law 95-367

National Climate Program Act, 1978 / PDF

This first federal program established to study and assess scientifically the issues and risks of human-caused climate change became a foundation for comprehensive initiatives, with an array of new Earth Science missions led by NASA and NOAA, the EPA and USGS.

At the Beginning of U.S. Science on Global Warming, Strategies & Planning

Energy and Climate Report, 1977, National Academy of Sciences / 175 pp. / PDF via GreenPolicy360

1978, the First Climate Actions

National Climate Program Act, Public Law 95-367

National Climate Program Act of September 1978

In 1979 came the first follow-on National Science Academy report. This study and report of national scientists was prescient and accurate in its global warming predictions.

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SJS/GreenPolicy Siterunner:

Unprecedented environmental protection, a vision that began a process that continues to this day...

Green, environmental public policies, a foundation on which to build sustainable quality of life...

Water quality act http://www.encyclopedia.com/article-1G2-3456400109/water-quality-act-1965.html

Air quality act http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3197&context=lcp

National environmental policy act http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Environmental_Policy_Act

Clean air act (extended 1970) https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/STATUTE-84/pdf/STATUTE-84-Pg1676.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_Air_Act_(United_States)

Occupational safety and health act http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupational_Safety_and_Health_Act

Consumer product safety act http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_Product_Safety_Act

Federal insecticide, fungicide and rodenticide act http://www.epa.gov/agriculture/lfra.html

Clean water act http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_Water_Act

Noise control act http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noise_Control_Act

Endangered species act http://www.fws.gov/endangered/laws-policies/

Safe drinking water act http://water.epa.gov/lawsregs/guidance/sdwa/basicinformation.cfm

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The Way It Was

Before the first environmental protection laws

Polluted America, images from the archives

• https://www.businessinsider.com/what-us-cities-looked-like-before-epa-regulated-pollution-2019-8

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