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Romans were the first to build aquaducts to carry out human waste from the city
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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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There was no environmental laws, no concerns about the air or water quality. People Threw human waste into the same streets where they sold their food.
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Realization about diesases. Some regulations being made, but not much still being done.
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1388 -- Parliament passes an act forbidding littering in ditches, rivers, and any water source.
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1721-1728 -- In Eastern Europe during these years there is a rabies epidemic.
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They were cleaning up their mess. Finding new medicatal things.
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1775 -- English scientist Percival Pott finds that coal is causing cancer among chimney sweeps.
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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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Getting stuff done, inventing and making life better.
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1892 -- Europe's last great cholera outbreak. In one widely noted incident, the disease takes a heavy toll in Hamburg, Germany but spares neighboring Altona. The difference is that Altona has a water purification system.
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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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1900 -- Water pollution lawsuit begins in Supreme Court. The state of Missoui sues the state of Illinois and the City of Chicago's sewer system for polluting the Mississippi. Eventually, US Supreme Court allows the Chicago city sewer department to maintain a canal draining city sewage into the Des Plaines River and, eventually, the Mississippi River.
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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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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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1947 -- Los Angeles set a control on air pollution. the first air pollution control bureau in the nation.
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There was a lot of pollution.
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1955 -- Congress passes Air Pollution Control Act.
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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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1981-- Nuclear Waste Policy Act. They made it to where there was certain areas to dump waste.
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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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Environmental Justice Act of 1992
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2001 -- July 6 -- Environmental Working Group Announces that some drinking water in California is contaminated with Perchlorate, a chemical that affects child development and can possibly cause thyroid cancer.
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2011 -- June 6 -- US Supreme Court does not review General Electric v EPA, a challenge to the CERCLA law about the liability for cleanup of toxic wastes. The decision to make them clean it up is left with EPA.
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Discovering new inventions to make life easier and better.
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2500 BC -- Mohenjo Darro civilization reaches high for clean public health.