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Roman Senate passes a law to protect water stored during their dry periods so it can be released to clean the street and sewer.
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Cloaca Maxima (big sewer) is built in Rome by Etruscan dynasty of Tarquins. As Rome grows, a networks of sewers and aqueducts are built.
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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
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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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Rapid industrialization in England leads to heavy deforestation and increasing substitution of coal for wood.
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Sanitation and pure drinking water was a part of his lifelong concern for the improvement of Philadelphia in small matters
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are starting to see what they are doing the invirment
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Beginnings of first modern municipal sewers in London, but water supply is still frequently contaminated
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John Snow, a London physician traced a part of the cholera epidemic to a contaminated
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Norway tracks first signs of acid rain on its western coast
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efects of what they where doing is showing and they start to do stuff to stop this
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they really see whats going on and they start doing stuff
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Inventor Aubrey Eneas founds Solar Motor Company of Boston to build solar-powered motors to replace steam engines powered by coal or wood
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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
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trying to blance clean and polution and cleaning up
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US supreme court allows New Jersey to dump sewage into New York harbor
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Smog so thick that lanterns were needed during the daylight for a week in St. Louis
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Congress passed Bald eagle Preservation act. Protecting animals in our environment going extinct.
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Los Angeles air pollution control district formed.
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doing work and teying to use new things to improve our poultion out put
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making new groops to stop poultion and more dangrous things are being dumped and spilt
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clean air act requires of all ambient air quality standards
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us department of energy is created by jimmy carter
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plastic pollution research forbids ocean dumping of plastic
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more laws and acts are passed to protect the earth
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international treaty bans all ocean dumping of waste
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really doing work and making more effort to clean up the planet
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epa makes environmental equality work group
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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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things that we did in the past are killing us now
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A science magazine publishes some Nasa satellite pictures of over 2,00 glaciers melting
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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.
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new things that are going to help!
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new cars that run on electrisy and can put out less emisions and better gas millage
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new renewable resorces such as ocean currents and wind others
