When the first Earth Day was held on April 22, 1970, the founders — U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson (D-WI) and activist Denis ...

Earth Day helped lead to the formation of the United States Environmental Protection Agency, Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act ...

WASHINGTON — Millions of people around the world on Tuesday are celebrating Earth Day, an annual event founded by people who ...

Gaylord Nelson, the late U.S. senator and governor of Wisconsin, is considered the founder of Earth Day, which started in ...

Earth Day, a global effort to educate people on growing environmental threats and propel them to action, marks its 55th ...

The first Earth Day was celebrated in 1970, making this year's festivities the 55th annual festival. For the first Earth Day, ...

Earth Day was founded in 1970 by Senator Gaylord Nelson, with the purpose to inform people about environmental problems that ...

Earth Day has its roots in growing concern over pollution in the 1960s, when author Rachel Carson's 1962 book “Silent Spring, ...

The holiday remains one of the largest secular observances in the world, used to spotlight ongoing threats including plastic ...

Earth Day is a global event for environmental awareness. US Senator Gaylord Nelson started it in 1970. Millions participate ...

A senator from Wisconsin was so inspired by his love of the Great Lakes region, that he became an advocate for the ...

The first Earth Day is largely credited as one of the key moments that launched the modern environmental movement.