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200 B.C- Greek physician Galen observes copper mines and notes the danger of acid mist.
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2011- Renewable energy could power 80% of the world.
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460-377 B.C- Greek physicians Hippocrats notes the effect of food occupations and climax in causing diseases.
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Bubonic Plague hit's hard.
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1257- Queen Eleanor of Provence is forced to leave Nottingham Castle due to heavy coal smoke fouls the air.
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1347-1350- Bubonic plague kills on third of 75% of Europe and Asia’s population.
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1366- City of Paris forces butchers to dispose animal waste outside city limits.
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1388- Parliament passes an act forbidding throwing of filth and garbage into ditches, rivers, and any other body of water.
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1560-1600- John Evelyn writes “Fumifugiun, Or The Inconvenience Of The Era And Smoke Of London Dissipated” to propose remedies for air pollution problem.
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1666- Japan’s shot gun warns damage of erosion, flooding due to deforestation.
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Sea Coal is being loaded on ships.
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1700- 600m ships are engaged to haul “sea coal” from new castles to London.
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1709- England uses coal instead of wood for manufacturing iron.
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1721-1728- Rabies epidemic sweeps across eastern Europe.
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1723- Lead in alcohol causes serious stomach pains.
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1741- Founding hospital of London established.
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1750- Thypus epidimic sweeps through London killing thousands including Lord Mayor.
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1760-First experiments on use of coal-gas for lighting by coal mine owner.
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1762-1769- Philadelphia committee led by Ben Franklin attemps to regurlate waste disposal and water pollution.
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1775- English scientist Percival Pott finds that coal is an unusually high incidence for chimney sweeps to get cancer.
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1789- Ben Franklin leaves money in his will to build fresh water pipelines.
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First gas light invented in this era
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1812- First gas lights introduced in London.
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1816- First Parliamentary commissions to investigate child labor.
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1842- English engineers lay out swear system.
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1845- Griscom’s Ney York City sanitary report re-issued.
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1848- Chlora epidemic kills 62,000 Britons.
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1853- Dr.Elizabeth Blackwell, first US woman to be allowed to earn medical degree.
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1854- Tetrathyl lead is first added to gas as an octan booster.
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1854- New York council rules all homes have to hook up to the sewer system.
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1860- Promoting solar energy.
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1861- Civil War in US creates enormous environmental problems.
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The first solar water heater
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1891- forest reserve act passes congress over 17.5 million acre’s set aside by 1893.
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1891- Baltimore inventor Clarence Kemp patients first commercial climax solar water heater.
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1892- Europe’s last great cholera breakout.
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1892- 1,000 Londoners die in smog incident.
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1893- Illinois is first to pass a law limiting workday to 8 hours for a woman.
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1895- Illinois State Supreme Court strikes down law about women only working 8 hours a day.
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1895- Sewage cleanup in London means the return of some fish species to Thames River.
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1898- Coal Smoke Abatement society formed to pressure government agencies to enforce pollution laws to England.
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1900- Water buffalo population drops to fewer then 40 animals from an estimated 30 million a century beforehand.
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1904- Child lead poisoning first linked to lead-based paints.
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1905- Massachusetts requires all adults be vaccinated against smallpox.
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1906- 100,000 Acers of Alaskan coal land withdrawn from public use.
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The dust bowl
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1921- US Supreme Court allows New Jersey to dump sewage into New York harbor.
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1921- Thomas Midgley of General Mothers demonstrate car powered by 30% alcohol-gasoline blend at Indianapolis SAE meeting.
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1923- Leaded gasoline goes on sale.
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1924- Oil pollution Act finally passed.
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1930- Meuse River Valley killer smog kills 63, leaving 6,00 ill.
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1993- Dust Bowl storm begins in the Midwest.
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1937- Leaking natural gas from nearby oilfield kills 295 student and teachers.
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"Killer Fog"
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1941- Between 25,000 and 60,000 rooftop solar water heaters are being used.
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1944 War Production Board reports industrial accidents killed 37,600 workers and injured 210,000 permanently and 4.5 million temporary.
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1945- US drops atomic numbs on Japanese cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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1948- 600 deaths in London In a “killer fog”.
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1948- Smog accident kills 20 people, and 600 hospitalized.
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1952- 4,000 people died in the worst of London’s “killer fogs”.
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1952- Chalk River nuclear test reactor explodes none killed but thousands are exposed to radioactive waste.
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1954- Heavy smog conditions shut down industry and schools in Los Angeles.
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You had to have leaded gas at a gastation
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1972- First regional treaty to regulate dumping of radioactive wastes.
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1972- EPA announces all gasoline stations required it carry “non-Leaded” gasoline.
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1972- Arab oil embargo panic US and European consumers- Prices quadrupled.
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1976- National Academy of Science report on CFS gases warn of damage to ozone layer.
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Bhopal Explosion took many lives. Young and old.
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1985- Bhopal disaster killed 2,000 and another 8,000 died from chronic effects.
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1985- Methyl icocyanate leaks from union carbide plant hospitalizing 134 people.
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1986- a cloud of carbon dioxide gas boils out of Lake Nyos, killing 1,700 people.
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1988- NASA reports ozone layer eroding much faster then predicted.
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1988- Beaches close along the US East Coast due to contaminated medical waste.
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Sodium leaks into a body of water from a cooling system for a factory.
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1990- United Nations report on climax change.
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1994- Women who lived near large chemical plants on Long Island run greater risk of having/getting breast cancer.
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1996- Lead poisoning is linked to anti-social behavior.
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1996- EPA air pollution report that sulfur dioxide emissions declined by 40% between 1970-1990.
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1998- Nearly 3,000 tons of Taiwanese toxic waste were dumped in a field in southern Cambodia.
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1999- Earths population exceeds six billion.
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Lead and murcury miners have a very dangerous work place. They can die easly by diseases or disaster's at the work site.
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100 A.D- Workers in lead and mercury mines and smelters are known to suffer diseases from the metals.
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2000- European Union bans leaded gasoline as public health hazard.
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2000- Over 300 bullion gallons of thick black coal slurry sludge is released when a dam collapsed. This was one of the most serious US environmental disasters east of the Mississippi River.
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2001- World Trade Center, Pentagon, and Flight 93.
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2001- National Research Council suggests that climate change may arrive very quickly.
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2001- Invasion of Iraq by US and British forces leads to oilfield burning and other war-related environmental problems.
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2003- Electric power failure affects 50 million people from New York to Ontario.
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2010- Nuclear reactor meltdown explosion and spent full fires at the Fukushima power complex.
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Black October Massacar
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80 A.D- Roman senate passes law to protect water stored for the dry periods.
