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Timeline of European Environmental History - Energy transformation
London. But with the increased use of coal air pollution also increased. The proliferating coal fires emitted a lot of dense, sulfur-laden, smoke that ... a treatise on London' air pollution, he claimed that the the harmful effects of coal smoke turned drying clothes black, tarnished paintings, corrodedbuildings , water became undrinkable, and especially, human health ...
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London's Historic "Pea-Soupers" | EPA History | US EPA
Sea-coal was plentiful, but it didn't burn efficiently. A lot of its energy was spent making smoke, not heat. Coal smoke drifting through ... Anthracite coal was much cleaner but too expensive. By the 1800s, more than a million London residents were burning soft-coal, and winter "fogs" became more than a nuisance. An 1873 coal-smoke ...
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Editorial: Fluoride Versus Sulfur Oxides in Air Pollution
Furthermore, their characteristic odor, their bluish-white color, and the relative ease of demonstrating their presence in the air accounted for their identification with coal smoke. Nevertheless, some investigators (1-3) questioned the role of sulfur oxides in smoke disasters, because the officially reported ...
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Environmental History Timeline
Town gas from coal drips tar into the rivers. Vulcanized rubber plants discharge noxious chemicals directly into the streams. Coal smoke chokes the air in big cities. Chemical factories operate without thought to people downwind. Ben Franklin in his printing office Essential Reading Brimblecombe, Peter, 1988 The Big Smoke ...
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Environmental History Timeline: 1200-1750
Tutbury Castle because heavy coal smoke fouls the air, (according to Markham and Brimblecombe).. A similar account is given in Hughes: unendurable air pollution from wood smoke led Henry II's ... marketing a patented closet. (Markham). c.1590 -- Queen Elizabeth "greatly grieved and annoyed" by coal smoke in Westminster Palace. (Brimblecombe) 1593 -- Aug. 9 -- Isaac Walton born in England (dies Dec ...
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Headworks USA - HeadsUp Newsletter, August 2007 - Volume 4, Issue 08: A Brief History of London's Sewer System
Little did they know that the noxious gases indoors were far ...
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Coal Energy
They have found more effective ways of cleaning coal before it leaves the mine, and coal companies look for low-sulfur coal to mine. Power plants use "scrubbers" to clean sulfur from the smoke ...
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Smoke
Consequently, smoke pollution was worst during the winter months. Smoke and sulphur dioxide pollution would mix with fog to produce smogs. The 1926 UK Smoke Abatement Act reduced smoke ...
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British Environmental History Bibliography
Romantic Ecology: Wordsworth and the Environmental Tradition (London, 1991). Brimblecombe, Peter, The Big Smoke: a history of air pollution in London since medieval times (London: Methuen 1987 ... Changing Attitudes in England 1500-1800 (Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1984) Thorsheim, Peter, Inventing Pollution: Coal, Smoke and Culture in Britian since 1800 (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2006). Tipping, R. ...
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Kaitlyn Grigsby interview -- Ohio Citizen Action
Can you describe some of your personal experiences with the coal mining industry? Betty Gayle: Coal pays the bill in West Virginia. So everything’s ... , but it’s coal that burns hot and doesn’t have that much ashes and doesn’t put that much smoke and everything in the air, doesn’t pollute as much. I guess that’s what clean coal is. Runoff from ...
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