The Man from Clear Lake: Earth Day Founder Senator Gaylord Nelson On Earth Day 1970 twenty million Americans displayed their commitment to a clean environment. It was called the largest demonstration in human history, and it permanently changed the nation’s political agenda. By Earth Day 2000 participation had exploded to 500 million people in 167 countries. Winner, Elizabeth A. Steinberg Prize, University of Wisconsin Press |
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... continued to play host to the same sort of dinner parties twenty years after Nelson had left the Senate . The Nelsons generally made it a point not to use their parties as a way to court people who might be helpful politically ; this ...
... continued to advertise the drug , its salesmen con- tinued to promote it , and doctors continued to prescribe it despite the evidence and warnings . A Food and Drug Administration commis- sioner , James Goddard , said warnings from the ...
... continued to mount that DDT was having serious , long - term consequences . Most bald eagle carcasses examined in North America had traces of DDT residue . Worse yet , DDT was discovered in fish and penguins in Antarctica , an ...
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