{"id":540319,"date":"2010-04-22T12:38:09","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T16:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.southernstudies.org,2010:\/\/5.12235"},"modified":"2010-04-22T13:07:39","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T17:07:39","slug":"earth-day-at-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/540319","title":{"rendered":"Earth Day at 40"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.southernstudies.org\/images\/sitepieces\/earth_flag.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"earth_flag.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.southernstudies.org\/assets_c\/2010\/04\/earth_flag-thumb-250x166.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 20px 20px;\" height=\"166\" width=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/span>Date of first Earth Day celebration: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/earthday.envirolink.org\/history.html\">4\/22\/1970<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a2a_dd\" href=\"http:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share_save?linkname=&amp;linkurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.southernstudies.org%2F2010%2F04%2Fearth-day-at-40.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.addtoany.com\/buttons\/share_save_171_16.png\" alt=\"Share\/Bookmark\" border=\"0\" height=\"16\" width=\"171\" \/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">a2a_linkurl=\"http:\/\/www.southernstudies.org\/2010\/04\/earth-day-at-40.html\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/static.addtoany.com\/menu\/page.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Rank of the United Auto Workers union among the largest financial contributors to the first Earth Day: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-04-21-labor-and-environmentalists-have-been-teaming-up-since-the-first\/\">1<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Estimated number of demonstrators who took part in the first Earth Day: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/earthday.envirolink.org\/history.html\">20 million<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Estimated number of people who will take part in today&#8217;s Earth Day events: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-04-21-labor-and-environmentalists-have-been-teaming-up-since-the-first\/\">1 billion<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Number of countries that observe Earth Day: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Earth_day#Results_of_Earth_Day_1970\">175<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Rank of Earth Day among the largest secular events in the world: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-04-21-labor-and-environmentalists-have-been-teaming-up-since-the-first\/\">1<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Barrels of crude oil spilled on the California coast in a 1969 offshore oil platform blowout that helped inspire U.S. Sen. Gaylord Nelson to organize Earth Day: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1969_Santa_Barbara_oil_spill\">at least 80,000<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Estimated barrels of crude oil currently pouring out each hour from an offshore oil drilling rig that exploded earlier this week in the Gulf of Mexico: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/04\/23\/us\/23rig.html\">more than 300<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Number of workers still missing following that blast: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/04\/23\/us\/23rig.html\">11<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Date on which the Obama administration announced plans to expand offshore drilling to new areas along the South&#8217;s Atlantic coast and the Gulf of Mexico: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.southernstudies.org\/2010\/03\/environmentalists-blast-obamas-offshore-drilling-plan-as-a-threat-to-coastal-communities.html\">3\/31\/2010<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Year in which demonstrators blocked a shipment of PCB-contaminated soil to a landfill in a predominantly African-American community in North Carolina, sparking the Environmental Justice Movement: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.southernstudies.org\/2009\/09\/voices-investigate-epas-treatment-of-black-communities-in-the-south.html\">1984<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Percentage of residents living within two miles of commercial hazardous waste facilities today who are African-American: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.southernstudies.org\/2009\/09\/voices-investigate-epas-treatment-of-black-communities-in-the-south.html\">56<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Date on which environmental justice leaders called on the Environmental Protection Agency to take action to better protect low-income communities and people of color: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ejrc.cau.edu\/PressConf_10_27_09.html\">10\/27\/2009<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Rank of Atlanta, Georgia among America&#8217;s most toxic cities: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/2009\/11\/02\/toxic-cities-pollution-lifestyle-real-estate-toxic-cities.html\">1<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Increase in the average annual temperature in the Southeast since 1970: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.southernstudies.org\/2009\/06\/the-souths-deepening-climate-crisis.html\">2 degrees F.<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Amount by which average temperatures in the region are expected to rise by the 2080s, even if steps are taken to curb carbon emissions: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.southernstudies.org\/2009\/06\/the-souths-deepening-climate-crisis.html\">4.5 degrees F.<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Amount by which average temperatures in the region are expected to rise in that period if carbon emissions are not curbed: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.southernstudies.org\/2009\/06\/the-souths-deepening-climate-crisis.html\">9 degrees F.<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Rank of the South among least energy-efficient regions of the U.S.: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.southernstudies.org\/2010\/04\/voices-with-so-much-potential-for-energy-efficiency-why-is-the-south-so-inefficient.html\">1<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Rank of the 2008 coal ash spill from TVA&#8217;s Kingston plant in eastern Tennessee among the largest industrial waste spills in U.S. history: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.southernstudies.org\/2009\/12\/broken-promises-follow-tennessee-coal-ash-disaster.html\">1<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Minimum number of states where water supplies have been contaminated by coal ash: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.southernstudies.org\/2009\/12\/broken-promises-follow-tennessee-coal-ash-disaster.html\">23<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Date by which the EPA promised to release a proposed regulation for coal ash, which is currently not overseen by the federal government: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.southernstudies.org\/2009\/12\/broken-promises-follow-tennessee-coal-ash-disaster.html\">12\/31\/2009<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Date on which EPA announced it was delaying the rule&#8217;s release amid heavy lobbying by utilities: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/yosemite.epa.gov\/opa\/admpress.nsf\/d0cf6618525a9efb85257359003fb69d\/85d3578e15c80db98525768f006a097b%21OpenDocument\">12\/17\/2009<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Number of months after the first Earth Day that EPA began operations: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Environmental_Protection_Agency\">7<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><i>(Click on number to go to the original source.)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date of first Earth Day celebration: 4\/22\/1970 Rank of the United Auto Workers union among the largest financial contributors to the first Earth Day: 1 Estimated number of demonstrators who took part in the first Earth Day: 20 million Estimated number of people who will take part in today&#8217;s Earth Day events: 1 billion Number 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