Correction: I shouldn't have said "clean air movement" in particular -- it included the creation of the EPA (during President Nixon) [1] > The public outrage e

Correction: I shouldn't have said "clean air movement" in particular -- it included the creation of the EPA (during President Nixon) [1] > The public outrage engendered by the spill, which received prominent media coverage in the United States, resulted in numerous pieces of environmental legislation within the next several years, legislation that forms the legal and regulatory framework for the modern environmental movement in the U.S. [2] [1] https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/magazine/richard-nixon-and-the-rise-of-american-environmentalism https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/magazine/richar... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1969_Santa_Barbara_oil_spill https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1969_Santa_Barbara_oil_spill