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500 BC -- Romans were the first to build aquaducts to carry out human waste from the city
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No environmental laws, no concerns about air or water quality, and people threw human waste into the same streets where they sold food.
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Realizition about dieseases. Some regulations being made, but not much still being done.
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1306 -- Edward forbids coal burning in London.
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1388 -- Parliament passes an act forbidding littering in ditches, rivers, and any water source.
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Cleaning up their mess. New medicatal discovories.
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1721-1728 -- In Eastern Europe during these years there is a rabies epidemic.
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1762 --1769 -- Philadelphia committee tries to regulate waste disposal and water pollution.
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An advance in technology and medication.
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1812 -- First gas lights. It was the first time using gas instead of fire, for lights.
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1820 -- The Constitutional Code, including proposals for reforming London medical assistance system and water, sewer and public works districts.
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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.
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Umm this is an obvious one. We progressed!!!
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Disease takes a heavy tol on Germany.
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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.
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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).
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1920 - US Water Power Act permits Federal hydroelectric projects. The water power act was another way to coordinate the making of hydroelectric projects.
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More Restrictions. Water protection
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1924 - Oil Pollution Act, does not allow any discharge for any ship within a 3 mile radius, unless by accident.
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1929 - Norbeck-Anderson Act, Under the Federal Protection over 100 wildlife conservation areas were secured.
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Advances in clean air in water pollution
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1947 -- Los Angeles set a control on air pollution. the first air pollution control bureau in the nation
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1948 -- Federal Water Pollution Control Act; beginning of active House and Senate Public Works Committee
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1955 -- Congress passes Air Pollution Control Act.
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EPA comes in. Starts making rules.
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1970 -- Clean Air Act is passed. It was to address the hazards of air pollution. It regulates air emissions from stationary and mobile sources.
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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.
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In the 80's beside the cool fro and rockin music, they made it strickter with clean water and air
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1981 -- Congress passes Coastal Barriers Resources Act. It made it to where the government could not build along our water sources for safety issues
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1981-- Nuclear Waste Policy Act. They made it to where there was certain areas to dump waste.
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The realization is hitting people. They are aware of the long term effects.
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1990 -- Clean Air Act amendments strengthen rules on SOx and NOx emissions from electric power plants helping reduce acid rain.
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Environmental Justice Act of 1992
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2500 BC -- Mohenjo Darro civilization reaches high for clean public health.
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People are working hard on keeping clean. Finding another way to make technology greener.
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2009 -- Sept. 30 -- US EPA says new Clean Air Act regulations to lower greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.
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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
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- Ocean thermal uses the oceans temp. to make energy without needing coal, oil, and etc.
