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Your personal timeline, a place to aggregate photos, blog posts, tweets and key events in your life.

Created by mitchellt on May 15, 2008

Last updated: 03/06/10 at 03:08 AM

• Owner of Indian Point Applies for New 20 year Licenses
  2007

• Kyoto Protocol to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
  2005

  Most of the world signs on to reduce green house gasses but the US under the Bush administration refuses.

• DEC and GE agree to clean up the PCBs
  1993

  GE continues to fight cleaning up the PCBs because it is so expensive and has not started as of 2009, 16 years later.

• Chernobyl Reactor Accident in the Ukraine
  1986

  The worlds worse nuclear reactor accident.

• Stormking Project Abandoned
  1980

• Three Mile Nuclear Reactor nearly melts down
  1979

• Endangered Species Act
  1973

• Water Pollution Act
  Dec 1, 1972

  The purpose of this law is to make the waters of the United States safe for swimming and fishing. At the time of its establishment, over 35% of the nations rivers are unsafe. Bacteria in the Hudson River is 170 times the safe limit.

• DDT banned in the US
  Jan 1972

• United States Environmental Protection Agency created
  Dec 1, 1970

• New York State Department of Environmental Convervation established
  Jun 1970

  Over the past 39 years DEC has been instrumental in enforcing laws that clean up the river.

• Hudson River Sloop Clearwater Launched
  1969

  The Clearwater is a recreation of the Sloops that used to sail the River in the late 1800's. It's purpose is to get people out on the river to mobilize opinion and action to protect the river.

• Indian Point Nuclear Reactor goes online
  Jan 1, 1963

  The first of Indian Point 3 reactors goes online producing 265 megawatts of electricity for Con Ed. It goes off line in 1974

• Con Ed Proposes Destroying part of Storm King Mountain
  Dec 1962

  The New York City electric supplier Con Ed, proposes to build the worlds largest "pumped storage" electric Plant atop Storm King Mountain.

• Rachel Carson's Silent Spring Published
  1962

  This books alerts people to the dangers of DDT, a common "pesticide" (insect killer), that is also killing birds and fish

• Con Ed Proposes Destroying part of Storm King Mountain
  1962

  The electric company that supplies New York City proposes to build the worlds largest "pumped storage" electric plant atop Storm King Mountain

• GE Starts Dumping PCBs in the Hudson
  Jan 1, 1947

  Over the next thirty years up to 5 million pounds of highly toxic PCBs are dumped into the river.