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100 AD-400 AD. The piping in Greece caused people to be poisoned. Also the way wine was made was causing people to get poisoned also.
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The world oldest major religion- begins with Vedic scripture called Aranyakas, Democratic pluralism, thus became the became the principle of Indian. Babylonian and other civilizations have extensive and intricate links between nature and the drive.
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The decree combined consideration for animal welfare with concerns about public health and sanitation, and about the emotional effect on children of witnessing slaughter. A vegan sect in southern France who were eventually exterminated by the Albigensian Crusade and the institution of the Inquisition
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600 ships are engaged in hauling “sea coal” from Newcastle to London, The dodo is extinct. Ben Franklin born January 17, England uses coal instead of wood for manufacturing iron.
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President Thomas Jefferson guided a piece of foreign diplomacy through the U.S. Senate. The purchase of Louisiana territory from France. After the Louisiana Purchase Treaty was made, Jefferson initiated an exploration of the newly purchased land and the territory beyond the "great rock mountains" in the West.
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May 14 -- Lewis and Clark expedition begins the journey up the Missouri River to explore the geography, flora and fauna of the interior of North America.
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1810, US industry turning out $115 million worth of goods; 1860, $2 billion; second only to Britain in total industrial output.
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Steam power machinery it’s important because it allowed factory to have faster work
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First gas light, Manufactured gas would be used in every major US and European city.
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Humphry Davy invents the miners lamp, so people can see at night
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American, W.A. Burt invent a typewriter, made it easier for people to get stuff down on paper other than just writing it.
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Report of the Board of Health, Drinking water was drawn from river or shallow wells, often near seeping cesspools
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Report of the Board of Health, Drinking water was drawn from river or shallow wells, often near seeping cesspools
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The Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population of Great Britian
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Sewing machine allowed people to make clothing faster for busniess
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British Public Health Act
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1,000 Londoners die in smog incident.
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The world's leading scientists gather in Paris to consider new elements with unusual powers discovered by Pierre and Marie Curie. Minerals like thorium, uranium and radium emitted a new kind of light, the Curies had found.
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US water power Act authorizes federal hydroelectric projects.
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US Water Power Act authorizes federal hydroelectric projects.
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US Mineral Leasing Act opens up rich deposits on federal lands for token rental fees.
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Thomas Midgley of General Motors demonstrates car powered b 30 percent alcohol-gasoline blend at Indianapolis SAE meeting.
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US Supreme Court allows New Jersey to dump sewage in to New York harbor in New York v. New Jersey and passaic valley sewerage commissioners.
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Between 25,000 and 60,000 rooftop solar water heaters are being used, mostly in Florida and California. In Miami 80 percent of new homes are built with solar hot water. War materials needs prevent industry expansion. (Butti & Perlin, 1980)
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Controversy over dam that would inundate Cook Forest, a state park with the last of Pensylvanias virgin forsts
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Cleveland, Ohio natural gas explosionClevelanders were made very aware of the power of a natural gas when, on a Friday afternoon on October 20, 1944, a massive natural gas explosion virtually leveled an entire neighborhood on the east side of Cleveland, killing 131 people
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US drops atomic bomb on the japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasak 1946- Nuclear reactor accidents kills scientist at Los Alamos National Labs,
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National Environmental Policy Act signed creating the Council on Environmental Quality
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Americans demonstrate for air and water cleanup and preservation of nature. Hippy niggas
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Congress passes
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Marine Protection, Research and Sanctuaies Act authorized the EPA to regulate ocean dumping of industrial waste, sewage, sludge.
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Compensation and Liability Act, directs EPA to clean up abandoned toxic waste dump
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National Security Act of 1980 mandates all gasoline be blended with a minimum of 10 percent grain of alcohol
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National Academy of Sciences calls leaded gasoline the greatest source of atmospheric lead pollution.
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Congress passes Coastal Barriers Resources Act and Nuclear Waste Policy Act
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Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (1986): companies must disclose information about toxic chemicals they release into the air and water and dispose of on land to the public.
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Clean Air Act amendment strengthen rules on SOx and NOx emissions from electric power plans helping reduces acid
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Oil Pollution Act (1990): this law streamlines federal response to oil spills by requiring oil storage facilities and vessels to prepare spill-response plans and provide for their rapid implementation.
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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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The UN General Assembly resolution
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Environmental Justice Act of 1992” introduced by Congressman John Lewis
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October 11, 2000 over 300 million of gallons of black coal slurry sludge is released when a Massey Energy Co. impoundment dam collapses near Inez, Kentucky into the Big Sandy River’s Tug Fork and its tributaries.
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July 6, 2001 Environmental Working Group reports that sources of drinking water for more than 7 million Californians and millions of others are contaminated with Perchlorate, a chemical that disrupts child development and may cause thyroid cancer.
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Aug. 28, 2003 -- EPA rejects petition from environmental groups to regulate
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DEC. 11, 2003 - George W. Bush will go down in history as America's worst environmental president.
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March 21, 2003 -- Invasion of Iraq by US and British forces leads to widespread oilfield burning and other war-related environmental problems.greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles, saying it did not have the authority under the Clean Air Act -- an assertion that contradicted the agency's position under the Clinton administration, when its officials testified before Congress that it had the necessary authority.
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