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200 BC – Greek physician Galen observes copper miners and notes the danger of acid mists. Galen, Hippocrites and other physicians take individual medicine to new levels of understanding. Around the same time, poet and physician Nicander condemns "deadly white lead" used as a paint and cosmetic. -
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80 A.D.- The Roman Senate passes a law to protect water stored during dry periods so it can be released for street and sewer cleaning -
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100 AD- Occupational disease is well known in ancient Rome. Workers in lead mercury mines and smelters are known to suffer from the metals, according to Rome’s famous engineer Vitruvius. -
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100 AD - 400 AD decline of Roman Empire may have been partly due to lead poisoning, according to modern hi storian and toxicologist Jerome Nriagu. They would get lead poisoning from the cups they drink out of. -
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Ancient Civilizations B.C. - 570 A.D.
In the Ancient Civilzations they just started to make laws to protect people. A example is when the Romen Senate passed a law to protect water stored during dry periods so it can be released for the street and sewer cleaning. -
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Middle Ages: 1000 - 1600s
1306 - Edward I forbids coal burning in London when Parliament is in session. Like many attempts to regulate coal burning, it has little effect. -
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Middle Ages: 1000 - 1600s
1388 - Parliament passes an act forbidding the throwing of filth and garbage into ditches, rivers and waters. City of Cambridge also passes the first urban sanitary laws in England. -
May 4, 1560
Middle Ages: 1000 - 1600s
1560-1600 - Rapid industrialization in England leads to heavy deforestation and increasing substitution of coal for wood. -
Middle Ages: 1000 - 1600s
1589 - Water closet invented by Sir John Harrington in England but indifference to filth and lack of sewage meant that the invention was ignored until 1778, when Joseph Bramah began marketing a patented closet. -
The Middle Ages 1000 - 1600s
Coal was just beginning to come around and nobody knew how to keep the smoke in control and it cover all the streets and large ares. People just threw garbage and trash in the rivers and streets which created lots of filth for people. -
Middle Ages: 1000 - 1600s
1603 -- James I succeeds Elizabeth I and orders coal burned in his London household, but rather than smokey bituminous coal from Lancashire, Durham and Cornwall, he orders importation of hard, cleaner-burning anthracite from Scotland.
Evelyn writes in 1684 that smoke was so severe "hardly could one see across the street, and this filling the lungs with its gross particles exceedingly obstructed the breast, so as one would scarce breathe." -
The Enlightenment Era: 1700 - 1811
1709 - Abraham Darby of Coalbrookdale, England uses coal instead of wood for manufacturing iron. British coal production around this time is 3 million tons per year, or five times more than the rest of the world combined. -
The Enlightenment Era: 1700 - 1811
1739 -- Benjamin Franklin and neighbors petition Pennsylvania Assembly to stop waste dumping and remove tanneries from Philadelphia's commercial district. Foul smell, lower property values, disease and interference with fire fighting are cited. The industries complain that their rights are being violated, but Franklin argues for "public rights." Franklin and the environmentalists win a symbolic battle but the dumping goes on. -
The Enlightenment Era: 1700 - 1811
1760 -- First experiments on use of coal-gas for lighting by coal mine owner George Dixon in Newcastle, England. -
The Enlightenment Era: 1700 - 1811
1775 -- English scientist Percival Pott finds that coal is causing an unusually high incidence of cancer among chimney sweeps. -
The Enlightenment Era: 1700 - 1811
1792 -- William Murdock (chief engineer with Boulton & Watt) first uses coal gas to light a, small room in Redruth, Cornwall; He improved the gas by passing it through water. This experiment is usually noted as the beginning of the manufactured gas industry, which created vast pools of toxic coal tar in thousands of European and American towns and cities. Although the industry took off in the 1830s, its environmental legacy is only beginning to be understood. -
The Enlightenment Era: 1700 - 1811
1804 -- Smoke in Pittsburgh -- Pittsburgh official Presley Neville wrote "the general dissatisfaction which prevails and the frequent complaints which are exhibited, in consequence of the Coal Smoke from many buildings in the Borough, particularly from smithies and blacksmith shops..." The smoke affected the "comfort, health and... peace and harmony" of the new city. As in most other cities, the remedy of the age was to build higher chimneys. -
The Enlightenment Era 1700 - 1811
In the Enlightenment Era it was really smokey you could not see that far because of smoke and smog that was causing deaths from bad sight. They started to take action to prevent the smoke a example is in 1709 Abraham Darby started to use coal instead of wood to prevent as much smoke -
Industrial Revolution: 1810 - 1890
1812 - First gas lights introduced in London by the Gas Light & Coke Co, chartered despite opposition by Boulton & Watt steam manufacturer. This "town gas" or manufactured gas would be used in every major US and European city, but residual coal tar would remain an environmental problem well into the 21st century. Coal tar is not disposed of correctly and can destroy the environment. -
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1831 - House of Commons Factory Commission- Is people that looked at workers in factories and investigated in there working condition and made sure it was clean and workable. -
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1833 - Report of the Board of Health (focus: Cholera Outbreak) The Cholera Outbreak was a disease it started in the 1817s and spread very fast -
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1842 - The Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population of Great Britian- It is how they find if you have a disease or what you died from. -
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1842 - Royal Commission on Employment of Children in the Mines- Protected children and women from working in the mines at a age of ten. -
Industrial Revolution: 1810 - 1890
1847 - Towns Improvement Clauses Act (UK) encourages paving, drainage, cleansing and lighting and also gives large towns the power to appoint full time medical officers. Subsequent City Sewers Act of 1848 led to London appointment of Sir John Simon (1816-1904). - This was the start of the good hygiene that everyone can be concerned with and can give the people the basic needs for living. -
Industrial Revolution: 1810 - 1890
1850 - U.S. Steamboat Inspection Service founded; among the first attempts to regulate technology on behalf of public safety. - This gives the people a more efficient way to travel, but also can hurt the atmosphere and marine life with the fumes and and whatever leaks out the engine. -
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1872 - American Public Health Association- It helps prevent risk from disease and also helps cure serious injuries. -
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1875 - British Public Health Act- This deals with housing water pollution, disease and other problems. -
Industrial Revolution: 1810 - 1890
1881 - Samuel P. Langley leads expedition to Mt. Whitney in S. Calif. To research solar heat and absorption by Earth's atmosphere. Observes that as air grows thinner, temperature falls. Important for greenhouse theory. Langley's solar hot box measured air temperature inside an inner box to estimate the amount of solar energy hitting the earth. - This cannot be accurate enough to help us plan for future problems with the solar energy and the atmosphere. -
Industrial Revolution: 1810 - 1890
1881 - French Engineer Jacques D'Arsonval envisions an electric generator that uses the temperature difference between the ocean's depths and its surface. His student, Georges Claude, tested the Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion system in Cuba. The way that the generator is being powered can give on fumes or release some liquids that will spread through the water and polluted sea and ocean creatures and even drinking water for some people. -
The Industrial Revolution 1810 - 1890
New technology were being created. New ways for cleaning, transportation, cleaner air, and technology. This was the year for a big future and the beginning of a dark end. -
1890 - 1920 The Progressive Era
1892 -- 1,000 Londoners died in smog incident. -
1890 - 1920 The Progressive Era
1895 -- Sewage cleanup in London means the return of some fish species (grilse, whitebait, flounder, eel, smelt) to the Thames River. -
1890 - 1920 The Progressive Era
1898 -- Coal Smoke Abatement Society formed to pressure government agencies to enforce pollution laws in England. -
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The Progressive Era 1890 - 1920
In the Peogressive era they started to make laws to clean sewage pollution and air pollution. In 1895 they had a sewage sleanup in Landon. Also in 1898 they had a pollution law made in England to prevent air pollution. -
1920-1940 - The Roaring Twenties & The Depression
1920 - US Water Power Act authorizes federal hydroelectric projects. -
1920-1940 - The Roaring Twenties & The Depression
1922 - August 11 - National Coast Anti Pollution League formed by state and municipal officials at Atlantic City, New Jersey to stop oil dumping. Elected as president is Gifford Pinchot, also now running for governor of Pennsylvania and formerly Teddy Roosevelt¹s leading conservation expert. -
1920-1940 - The Roaring Twenties & The Depression
1924 - Oil Pollution Act finally passed in weakened form, prohibiting discharge from any vessel within the three-mile limit, except by accident. A stronger act would have prohibited discharges from oil refineries. -
1920-1940 - The Roaring Twenties & The Depression
1926 - Public Health Act (UK) expands Alkali Acts of 1863 and 1906 to control any chemical process considered to cause serious pollution. A public inquiry is to be held before each extension and the authority of an order laid before Parliament for any extension. Also extended in 1958. -
The Roaring Twenties & The Depression 1920 - 1940
This is the years that the laws of coaling get tight. No oil dumping unless by accident, strict emission from coal factories, and better controlling of any chemical production. These were getting bad in the areas so they needed to get it all under control before serious problems happen to the United States population. -
1890 - 1920 The Progressive Era
Factory Act amendments (UK) Special Rules for medical examination of workers are applied to dangerous industries. The Act was amended many times by recommendation of medical committees to deal with specific industrial dangers, especially in 1939, 1959 and 1961. -
World War II and the Post War Years
1947 -- Los Angeles Air Pollution Control District formed; first air pollution control bureau in the nation. This Air pollution control bureau was supposed to stop any pollution from smog well prevent it. -
World War II and the Post War Years
1948 -- Federal Water Pollution Control Act; beginning of active House and Senate Public Works Committee interest in water pollution. It was meant to help keep cleaner water and make for better health -
World War II and the Post War Years
1956 -- British Parliament passes Clean Air Act this helps keep the air clean so less people die from smog or pollution. -
WWII and The Fifties 1940 - 1960
During the WWII and the Fifties the first Air pollution control bureau was made. It's purpose was to prevent smog and air pollution. They also had a water pollution act pass because there was a high amount of pollution found in river and drinking water. -
1970-1980
1974 -- Congress passes Safe Drinking Water Act to be administered by EPA. -
1970-1980
1977 -- Federal Clean Air Act Amendments require review of all National Ambient Air Quality Standards by 1980. Congress also adds additional protection for Class I National Park and Wilderness air quality. -
1970-1980
1977 -- Congress passes: - Soil and Water Conservation Act, - Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act. It makes sure the soil and water is where it needs to be and it suitable for people. -
The Seventies 1970 - 1980
Mining and soil and water conservation act was made. These were to make sure that when mining the siol is put where i can still be suitable for people. The Water was to be cleaned and suitable to be transfered to people for hydration. Acts of helping the environment (plants, animals, etc.). -
1980-1989
1986 -- Safe Drinking Water Act amended to set standards for 83 contaminants and ban use of lead pipes and solder in new drinking water systems. Meanwhile (June 4) drinking water is temporarily shut off on 16 floors of the World Trade Center after unacceptable levels of lead were found in samples. -
1980-1989
1987 -- Plastic Pollution Research and Control Act passes US Congress, forbidding ocean dumping of plastic materials. -
1980-1989
1988 -- International treaty bans all ocean dumping of wastes. These help prevent water pollution make for better and cleaner water. -
The Eighties 1980 - 1989
In the Eighties we started to pass more and more Water Acts to clean are water and make better water pollution. There is a lot of health problems that are caused from polluted water so in the eighties they tried to prevent it. -
1990-2000
1990 - Clean Air Act amendments strengthen rules on SOx and NOx emissions from electric power plants helping reduce acid rain. -
1990-2000
1991 - UN Antarctic treaty prohibits mining, limits pollution and protects animal species. -
1990-2000
1992 - “Environmental Justice Act of 1992”: This tells all factories or facilities that are emitting chemicals are following all laws and regulations for fear of destroying the humans’ and environments’ life. -
The 21st Century - Now
2000 - Jan 1 - European Union bans leaded gasoline as a public health hazard. -
The 21st Century - Now
June 13 - American Electric Power, on the the largest electric utilities in the US, claims that Clean Air regulations passed in 2007 will force it to close two dozen coal fired power plants and lay off hundreds of workers. -
The 21st Century 2000 - Now
Now we are still having some water pollution but are air is a lot clean then anyother country. So I think that we made a lot of progress with the air pollution. But are water is still a bit dirty and we need to stop putting are waste in the rivers. -
Future
Stop poisoning the air, the water and the topsoil. -
World War II and the Post War Years
1956 -- Congress passes Water Pollution Control Act. -
The 21st Century - Now
Feb. 22 - United Nations renewable energy agency kicks off "sustainable energy for all" program in 2012. The program is particularly targeted to the developing world, where one person in five lacks access to modern electricity, and nearly three billion people rely on wood, coal, charcoal or animal waste for cooking and heating. -
The 21st Century - Now
March 30 - President Obama signs the largest wilderness protection bill in 15 years, protecting two million acres in nine states. -
Future
Reduce and stabilize our population. -
Future
Stop preparing for war and start dealing with your real problems -
Future
70 percent of earth’s surface is water, without water there would be no life on earth. -
Future
one single 100 watt floating plant can generate 800 million KW of electrical energy that can be used instead of coal and oil or gas. -
Future
Stop thinking your grandchildren will be OK no matter how wasteful or destructive you may be, since they can go to a nice new planet on a spaceship. That is really mean, and stupid. -
Future
Mushrooms grow the faster then any other organism -
Future
Mushrooms grow the faster then any other organism -
Future
Stop thinking science can fix anything if you give it a trillion dollars. -
Future
fungi was the first organism on the earth. -
Future
Fungi will get bigger while time goes on. -
The 21st Century - Now
August 3 - The US EPA recommends new limits on the use of thousands of pesticides due to their ill effects on human health following a congressionally mandated 10-year review of more than 230 chemicals. The first to be banned is lindane, a toxic insecticide used for agricultural purposes.
