Additional Resources
These are just a few potential resources to use in further exploring this topic. Items were chosen to provide a variety of sources representing a wide time span. They expose students to multiple perspectives helping to build critical thinking skills and media literacy.
Clean Air
California Air Resources Board: air quality standards
NPR (WESA Pittsburgh): Three Mile Island (2021)
Nucnet: long-term impact of Three Mile Island
Smithsonian Magazine: air pollution (2016)
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission: Three Mile Island
USA Today: Three Mile Island (2019)
Clean Water
Cleveland Historical Society: Cuyahoga River Fire
Consumernotice.org: Flint water crisis (2021)
Natural Resources Defense Council: Flint water crisis (2018)
Goldman Environmental Prize: LeeAnne Walters (2018)
Office of Response and Restoration, U.S. Department of of Commerce: oil spills and pollution (2020)
NBC news: Flint water crisis settlement (2021)
NPR : Flint water crisis (2016)
Ohio Environmental Protection Agency: Cuyahoga River fire (2018)
U.S. Department of of Commerce: Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899
Endangered Species
Earth.org: worldwide endangered species
National Geographic: endangered species
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: endangered species
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service: endangered species
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service: how to list a threatened species
World Wildlife Foundation: Endangered Species Act
International Treaties
Earth.org: carbon emissions (2021)
History.com: history of the United Nations (UN)
Natural History Museum (Los Angeles County): youth activists
United Nations: access to text of treaties
United Nations: history of climate change
United Nations: Paris Agreement
U.S Department of Commerce, National Ocean Service: conservation infographic
U.S. Department of State: Montreal Protocol
National Parks
CBS News: living in Yellowstone (2022)
History.com: history of the National Park Service
National Park Conservation Association: protecting national parks
National Park Service: homepage
National Park Service: history of the National Park Service
National Park Service: Yellowstone
U.S. Department of the Interior: explanation of public lands
Superfund
New York State Department of Health: Love Canal (1981)
PBS News: Love Canal 40 years later
State University of New York at Buffalo: Love Canal timeline
State University of New York at Genoese: Love Canal
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: Love Canal (1979)
