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Earth Day
celebration
planned
By LISA G. CURRIE
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
This year, Earth Day ’90 is getting a push, countywide, statewide, nationwide and worldwide like never before in its 20 year history.
Twenty odd years ago, the world was faced with black clouds of pollution from factories, cars and other transportation means, raw sewage in rivers and oceans and toxic substances in water and soil. College students, hoping to create an awareness among the American people organized the day-long event which helped launch the development of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and pass the Clean Air Act of 1970 and the Clean Water Act.
In the 20 years since the first Earth Day celebration, waterways have been cleaned, air and industrial pollution controlled. No longer just a national event, Earth Day 1990 addresses a whole new dimension of environmental problems, this time internationally and on all levels of society - from kindergarten classrooms to college lecture halls, to civic and social groups to national agencies and international organizations.
Not only is the push felt world wide but locally. In Rappahannock, no one is
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