Chad Larabee 3R

By Chad Larabee
  • 500

    Romans build aquaducts

    Romans build aquaducts
    500 BC -- Romans were the first to build aquaducts to carry out human waste from the city
  • 570

    Ancient Civilizations - 570AD

    Ancient Civilizations - 570AD
    No environmental laws, no concerns about air or water quality, and people threw human waste into the same streets where they sold food.
  • May 7, 1300

    The Middle Ages 1000-1600's

    The Middle Ages 1000-1600's
    Realizition about dieseases. Some regulations being made, but not much still being done.
  • May 7, 1306

    Coal Burning forbidded

    1306 -- Edward forbids coal burning in London.
  • May 7, 1388

    No more Littering

    1388 -- Parliament passes an act forbidding littering in ditches, rivers, and any water source.

  • The Enlightnment Era 1700-1811

    The Enlightnment Era 1700-1811
    Cleaning up their mess. New medicatal discovories.

  • Rabies Epidemic

    1721-1728 -- In Eastern Europe during these years there is a rabies epidemic.

  • Waste disposal

    1762 --1769 -- Philadelphia committee tries to regulate waste disposal and water pollution.

  • The Industrial Revolution

    The Industrial Revolution
    An advance in technology and medication.

  • Gas lights

    1812 -- First gas lights. It was the first time using gas instead of fire, for lights.

  • The Constitutional Code

    1820 -- The Constitutional Code, including proposals for reforming London medical assistance system and water, sewer and public works districts.

  • Condition of workers

    1831 - House of Commons Factory Commission- Checks on the condition on workers. It’s helps create the 10 hour law. Manly because of Stunted, diseased, deformed degraded, they pass across the stage.

  • Progressive Era 1890-1920

    Progressive Era 1890-1920
    Umm this is an obvious one. We progressed!!!

  • Cholera Outbreak

    Disease takes a heavy tol on Germany.

  • Rivers and Habors Act

    1899 -- March 3 -- Rivers and Harbors Act (also called the Refuse Act) passed by Congress. The act is primarily aimed at preservation of navigable waters, but under Section 13 it becomes unlawful to throw garbage and refuse into navigable waters except with a Corps of Engineers permit.

  • Buffalo population Drops

    1900 -- Wild buffalo population drops to fewer than 40 animals from an estimated 30 million a century beforehand. Most are killed in the years just after the Civil War, when the US Army hopes to remove the buffalo in order to move Indians onto reservations. (See Smits, 1994 and Isenberg, 2000).

  • Water power act

    1920 - US Water Power Act permits Federal hydroelectric projects. The water power act was another way to coordinate the making of hydroelectric projects.

  • Roaring twenties

    Roaring twenties
    More Restrictions. Water protection

  • Oil pollution

    1924 - Oil Pollution Act, does not allow any discharge for any ship within a 3 mile radius, unless by accident.

  • Norbeck-Anderson Act

    1929 - Norbeck-Anderson Act, Under the Federal Protection over 100 wildlife conservation areas were secured.

  • WWII and the Fifties

    WWII and the Fifties
    Advances in clean air in water pollution

  • First air pollution control

    1947 -- Los Angeles set a control on air pollution. the first air pollution control bureau in the nation

  • Federal Water pollution act

    1948 -- Federal Water Pollution Control Act; beginning of active House and Senate Public Works Committee
    interest in water pollution.

  • Air pollution control Act

    1955 -- Congress passes Air Pollution Control Act.

  • The 70's

    The 70's
    EPA comes in. Starts making rules.

  • Clean air act

    1970 -- Clean Air Act is passed. It was to address the hazards of air pollution. It regulates air emissions from stationary and mobile sources.

  • Bottle Recycling

    1972 -- First bottle recycling bill passes in Oregon. It was an effective way to get people to recycle. They would get 5 to 10 cent a can/bottle for recycling them.

  • The 80's

    The 80's
    In the 80's beside the cool fro and rockin music, they made it strickter with clean water and air

  • Coastal Barriers Resources Act

    1981 -- Congress passes Coastal Barriers Resources Act. It made it to where the government could not build along our water sources for safety issues

  • Nuclear Waste Policy Act

    1981-- Nuclear Waste Policy Act. They made it to where there was certain areas to dump waste.

  • The 90's

    The 90's
    The realization is hitting people. They are aware of the long term effects.

  • more improved clean air act

    1990 -- Clean Air Act amendments strengthen rules on SOx and NOx emissions from electric power plants helping reduce acid rain.

  • Environmental Justice Act of 1992

    Environmental Justice Act of 1992

  • Mohenjo has high health

    2500 BC -- Mohenjo Darro civilization reaches high for clean public health.
  • Period: to

    Air & Water Timeline

  • The 21st Century

    The 21st Century
    People are working hard on keeping clean. Finding another way to make technology greener.

  • Lower greenhouse gas emissions

    2009 -- Sept. 30 -- US EPA says new Clean Air Act regulations to lower greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.

  • Toxic Waste

    2010 -- Oct 5 -- Hungarian toxic dam break kills seven -- Hungary calls for state of emergency after an industrial dam breaks, it kills 7 people and spills one million cubic meters of toxic waste

  • 5 facts I learnes

    5 facts I learnes
    • Ocean thermal uses the oceans temp. to make energy without needing coal, oil, and etc.
    -one of those 100ft wide can produce 800,000,000 killawatts of energy -No need for oil :D -Our best antibiotics come from fungi. -Mushrooms makes strong antibiotics.