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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... protect buyers from price gouging and unsafe or inferior products . As a first term senator , he waded into consumer protection issues that challenged the practices of two major and powerful indus- tries , automobile and pharmaceutical ...
... Protection Act , of which he was a cosponsor , was passed to stop the slaughter of seals and protect other ocean mammals . Finally , his bill to protect the lower Saint Croix River was signed into law . 18 The League of Conservation ...
... protection to the lands . Carter and Andrus did that with orders protect- ing more than one hundred million acres of land . The bill finally cleared Congress in the summer of 1980 , but a Senate - House conference com- mittee did not ...
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