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SmartVoter22

(639 posts) Wed Apr 22, 2020, 09:05 AM Apr 2020

Thx Gaylord Nelson - Happy Earth Day

April 22. Earth Day 2020

I personally am grateful for our Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson, a Democrat; who wrote legislation that created Earth Day in 1970.
This is one of the very few globally celebrated events, that has led to environmental awareness by all humans and most nations.

Keep recycling, Keep planting and Keep Safe.

http://www.nelsonearthday.net/nelson/

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Thx Gaylord Nelson - Happy Earth Day (Original Post) SmartVoter22 Apr 2020 OP

The event started the Environmental Decade. CaptYossarian Apr 2020 #1

CaptYossarian

(6,448 posts)

1. The event started the Environmental Decade.

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Wed Apr 22, 2020, 09:20 AM

Apr 2020

Right after that, Republican Richard Nixon signed into law the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act, plus established the EPA.

Tell all your GOP friends. You know, the ones who can somehow live with smog and chewy Flint water.

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