How one oil spill created Earth Day and rewrote US law

Earth Day is celebrated every April 22nd — but most people don't know the specific chain of events that created it. In January 1969, a Union Oil platform off Santa Barbara blew out, spilling three million gallons of crude and killing tens of thousands of seabirds. Senator Gaylord Nelson was so outraged he organized a national day of protest. Twenty million Americans showed up. Within eight months, the EPA existed. Within two years, the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts were law. One disaster, one senator, and one massive protest permanently rewrote environmental law. History is wilder than fiction. #history #earthday #environment #historyfacts

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