Imagine life where you are not protected by regulations and laws that guard our environment and health. Factories spewing ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

But it was a senator from Wisconsin, Democrat Gaylord Nelson, who had the idea that would become Earth Day. Nelson had long ...

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