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200
roman laws
Roman Senate passes a law to protect water stored during their dry periods so it can be released to clean the street and sewer. -
500
water mamagent
Cloaca Maxima (big sewer) is built in Rome by Etruscan dynasty of Tarquins. As Rome grows, a networks of sewers and aqueducts are built. -
570
ancient civilivation bc 570 AD
dident care or even think about what they where doing to the enviroment and had no in house plumbimg systems dumped raw wast in the streets where food was sold -
May 3, 1306
coal burning
Edward I forbids coal burning in London when Parliament is in session. Like many attempts to regulate coal burning, it has little effect. -
May 3, 1560
indusreialization
Rapid industrialization in England leads to heavy deforestation and increasing substitution of coal for wood. -
middle ages
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cleaning water
Sanitation and pure drinking water was a part of his lifelong concern for the improvement of Philadelphia in small matters -
enlightenment
are starting to see what they are doing the invirment -
sewers
Beginnings of first modern municipal sewers in London, but water supply is still frequently contaminated -
tracking
John Snow, a London physician traced a part of the cholera epidemic to a contaminated -
tracking rain
Norway tracks first signs of acid rain on its western coast -
Industrial revolution
efects of what they where doing is showing and they start to do stuff to stop this -
Progressive Era
they really see whats going on and they start doing stuff -
new things
Inventor Aubrey Eneas founds Solar Motor Company of Boston to build solar-powered motors to replace steam engines powered by coal or wood -
cleaning up
Sewage clean up in London so some of the fish species return. Cleaning up and getting rid of sewage in areas so fish can live there without be contaminated and dying -
the 20s
trying to blance clean and polution and cleaning up -
crappy laws
US supreme court allows New Jersey to dump sewage into New York harbor -
the bad
Smog so thick that lanterns were needed during the daylight for a week in St. Louis -
making animal laws
Congress passed Bald eagle Preservation act. Protecting animals in our environment going extinct. -
forming groups
Los Angeles air pollution control district formed. -
WWII And The Fifties
doing work and teying to use new things to improve our poultion out put -
the 70s
making new groops to stop poultion and more dangrous things are being dumped and spilt -
new acts
clean air act requires of all ambient air quality standards -
new laws
us department of energy is created by jimmy carter -
more ocean protection
plastic pollution research forbids ocean dumping of plastic -
80
more laws and acts are passed to protect the earth -
ocean waste
international treaty bans all ocean dumping of waste -
90s
really doing work and making more effort to clean up the planet -
groops that clean
epa makes environmental equality work group -
getting clean
epa air pollution report says sulfur dioxide emissions declined by 40 between 1970 and 1990 the report also claims smog carbon monoxide and ozone levels are down since the Clean Air Act in 1970 -
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the now
things that we did in the past are killing us now -
glacires melting
A science magazine publishes some Nasa satellite pictures of over 2,00 glaciers melting -
kids are suffering
scientists publish a study showing that kids in high air pollution areas like california have damaged lungs and their lungs are underperforming more than kids in lower pollution areas. -
the future
new things that are going to help! -
cars
new cars that run on electrisy and can put out less emisions and better gas millage -
new new new
new renewable resorces such as ocean currents and wind others
