The first piece of legislation to lay down federal regulation of water quality, the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, is passed by Congress. This act, known as the FWPCA , will go through ...

In the 1960s and early 70s, an inordinate amount of our nation's environmental laws, programs, and agencies were created. There was the Endangered Species Act, the Clean Air Act, the creation of the ...

Conservation's hour -- is leadership ready? / G. John Roush -- Conservation movement as a political force / Nathaniel P. Reed -- Groping our way toward an environmental ethic / Joanna D. Underwood -- ...

The year 1992 marked a pivotal moment in the relationship between global business and environmental protection. As world leaders prepared to gather in Rio de Janeiro for the United Nations Conference ...

It was meant to be a natural-world Disneyland at the top of a California mountain. Never a stranger to the early-twentieth-century ideal of Americans conquering – and enjoying – the wilderness, Walt ...

Historical and Cultural Roots. The European ancestry of environmental health ; Early environmental public health in the United States ; Environmentalism and economic growth ; The birth of the U.S.