Santa Barbara was the first, with oil spills spawning an environmental ethic ... It prompted the first Earth Day, led to the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and helped spawn ...

This is the story of the first Earth Day—and ... Venezuelan oil tanker is a potential disaster. Here's what we know. We still don’t know the full impacts of the BP oil spill, 10 years later ...

The first Earth Day happened on 22 April 1970 in the USA, in response to a spill from an oil tanker. It has since grown to become a global event marked by many millions of people around the world.