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An article about the illegal disposal of toxic waste along roadways in rural NC.

A graph of the number of faculty participating in the Environmental Studies program between 1985 and 1989

The trajectory of the growth of the ES Program in terms of number of students graduating with an ES major, from 1968 to 1992.
No one graduated from the ES Program in 1988; In just two years afterwards, however, the number jumped to 15, an all-time…

On June 22, 1990, the Bush administration voted to register the Northern spotted owl as a threatened subspecies on the Endangered Species list. At the time, only 3,000 to 5,000 pairs were extant in the Pacific Northwest. Though a bitter debate raged…

A student essay on the roles of science and press narrative in the effort to ban the use of Agent Orange, a chemical defoliant, in the Vietnam War.

Ten newspaper articles from the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Chicago Tribune, March-April 1990, covering events and ideas and figures surrounding Earth Day 1990.

President Johnson signs into act the Highway Beautification Act, and "promised that 'as long as I am President, what has been divinely given by nature will not be recklessly taken away by man.'" Under this new law, states needed to "control…

Text of President Kennedy's Address regarding the next course of action in the upcoming "Cuban Missile Crisis". Kennedy ends his address calling for action in the United States' vested interest for "peace and freedom here in this hemisphere, and, we…

Recycling at Middlebury

Middlebury College implemented a new recycling program to help reduce the problem of limited landfill space.