April 22 | in Event Today
Since 1970, every year today is celebrated as Earth Day
Every year on April 22, Earth Day commemorates the beginning of the contemporary environmental movement in 1970. It may be difficult to believe that prior to 1970, a business could blast black clouds of poisonous smoke into the air or dump tonnes of hazardous trash into a nearby stream and do it legally. They couldn't go to court to halt it. Senator Gaylord Nelson established Earth Day in the spring of 1970 to bring this issue onto the national agenda. Twenty million Americans demonstrated in various places around the country, and it worked! The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency was established in December 1970 after Congress approved the establishment of a new government agency to address environmental challenges.