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
- 1970 - Earth Day is founded by Denis Hays, and Gaylord Nelson
- 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
- 2000- European Union bans leaded gasoline as a public health hazard.
