1970 in the environment

none 1970 the environment This is a list of notable events relating to the environment in 1970. They relate to environmental law, conservation, environmentalism and environmental issues. Events The California Environmental Quality Act is passed into law and signed by then California Governor Ronald Reagan. Francis A. Schaeffer publishes Pollution and the Death of Man.Barry Hankins Francis Schaeffer and the Shaping of Evangelical America https://books.google.com/books?id=cq-SR6WnwZMC&pg=PA118 3 November 2008 Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing 978-0-8028-6389-8 118 July 25, 2025 Natural Resources Defense Council is founded. League of Conservation Voters is founded. A decade of "chronic sand mining" at Vigie Beach, Saint Lucia ends, but not before it worsened the effects of hurricanes and made "coastal resources management development" more difficult.https://books.google.com/books?id=SDsSAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Vigie+Beach%22+-wikipedia&dq=%22Vigie+Beach%22+-wikipedia&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source= 244, 246, 276 Coastal Resources Management Development Case Studies John R. Clarke Research Planning Institute (Columbia, S.C.) 1985 February 1, 2026 January The United States National Environmental Policy Act becomes effective. February US President Richard Nixon gave the nation's first presidential message on the environment.https://www.epaalumni.org/userdata/pdf/600A1DB1B9EF1E85.pdf#page=2 Transcript of "Behind the Scenes at the Creation of the EPA" Video Elkins Chuck October 2013 EPA Alumni Association August 20, 2018 April The first Earth Day took place on April 22, organized by Gaylord Nelson, former senator of Wisconsin, and Denis Hayes, Harvard graduate student. Twenty million people participated in teach-ins in the United States.https://www.epaalumni.org/userdata/pdf/600A1DB1B9EF1E85.pdf#page=1 Transcript of "Behind the Scenes at the Creation of the EPA" Video Elkins Chuck October 2013 August 20, 2018 US President Richard Nixon signed the Environmental Quality Improvement Act.United States. Environmental Quality Improvement Act of 1970. 91 224 April 3, 1970. Joni Mitchell releases Big Yellow Taxi, a song inspired by her seeing parking lots in Hawaii: "They paved paradise to put up a parking lot". August On August 24, the 1970 Clean Air Car Race started at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts and ended six days later at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California. The race was intended to demonstrate the feasibility of lower-emission cars before the Clean Air Act emissions standards came into effect in 1975.Clean Car Race – A Summary Report, on nepis.epa.gov (access date 3. September 2025). October On October 16, Joni Mitchell, James Taylor, and Phil Ochs perform at a benefit concert for the Don't Make a Wave Committee, the organization that would become Greenpeace, at the Amchitka concert. December The United States Environmental Protection Agency is formed. President Richard Nixon signed the Clean Air Act of 1970. Norman Borlaug, the father of the Green Revolution, wins the Nobel Peace Prize. See also Environment Human impact on the environment List of environmental issues List of years in the environment References