Timeline: Environmental events

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This article covers the events concerning the environment. These include events like laws, environmentalists, publications, organizations, etc.

Early events

  • 1607 - Establishment of the first English colony at Jamestown. (now Virginia)
  • 1760 - First experiments on use of coal-gas for lighting by coal mine owner George Dixon in Newcastle, England.
  • 1762 --1769 -- Philadelphia committee led by Benjamin Franklin attempts to regulate waste disposal and water pollution

18th Century

  • 1700's - Many early American settlers had a frontier attitude, which is a desire to exploit the resources of North America as quickly as possible.


19th Century

  • 1832-Arkansas Hot Springs established as a national reservation, setting a precedent for Yellowstone and eventually, a national park system.
  • 1832-George Catlin, proposes the idea of national parks encomassing major areas in which Indians and wild country could both be preserved.
  • 1845-Beginning of the Irish Famine
  • 1891-General Revision Act passed

20th Century

  • 1990 Congress amends the Clean Air Act to require further reductions in HC,CO,NOx, and particulate emissions.
  • 1968 - Paul Ehrlich publishes The Population Bomb, which describes the threats of the rapidly growing human population.

21st Century

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