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ABC News, Yucca Mountain, David Howells/Corbis, 2018

Yucca Mountain is a site located in Nevada that is well-known as the federal government's location for a deep geologic repository for the safe storage…

Tags: Mountains, Nevada, Nuclear Fuel, Yucca Mountain

AngMoKio, Yosemite National Park, AngMoKio, 7-Sep

Yosemite National Park is an American national park located in the western Sierra Nevada of Central California, bounded on the southeast by Sierra…

Tags: California, Environment, Park, United States, Yosemite

Michelle Arseneault, Waste Management, Michelle Arseneault, 2008 August

Waste management laws govern the transport, treatment, storage, and disposal of all manner of waste, including municipal solid waste, hazardous waste,…

Tags: Environment, Legislation, Regulation, Waste Disposal, Waste Management

Verplanck Colvin, Verplanck Colvin, Adirondack Artist, Albany State Printer, ca. 1879

Today, the United States is home to over 6,600 state park sites which span 14 million acres. The Adirondack Preserve, set up by New York state in the…

Tags: Adirondack Forests, Conservation, Forest, State Parks, Whiteface Mountain

None, United Nations Environment Programme, Mattias Sundholm, None

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP, UN Environment) is a programme of the United Nations that coordinates the organization's environmental…

Tags: Environment, International, NGOs, Policy, UNEP, United Nations

D.O. Hill, St Rollox Chemical, Published before Jan 1, 1925. Public domain in the United States, 30 September, 2006

The origins of the environmental movement lay in the response to increasing levels of smoke pollution in the atmosphere during the Industrial…

Tags: Alkali, Environment, Health, Legislation, Pollution, UK

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Smokey Says - Hold 'Til It's Cold… Prevent Forest Fires, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, 1941-1945

Smokey the Bear PSA Since 1944, Smokey the Bear has educated generations on the importance of forest/wildfire prevention, and the PSA campaign is the…

Tags: Fire, Forest, PSA, Smokey the Bear, Wildfire Prevention, Wildfires

None, Sir William Schlich, Public domain in the United States, 1892

The modern conservation movement was first manifested in the forests of India, with the practical application of scientific conservation principles.…

Tags: Conservation, Environment, India, Movement, William Schlich

Barraud & Jerrard, Sir James Ranald Martin, Public domain in the United States, 1874

James Ranald Martin was prominent in promoting this ideology, publishing many medico-topographical reports that demonstrated the scale of damage…

Tags: Conservation, Deforestation, Environment, India, James Ranald Martin, Topography

Dick Rowan, Sierra Club Nature Hike, National Archives, May-72

The Sierra Club, the largest grassroots environmental group in the United States, was founded in 1892 by environmentalist John Muir. They are…

Tags: CAA, Conservation, Environment, Grand Canyon, National Parks, Nature Hike, NEPA, Sierra Club