In 1997, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and Chinese scientists found that occupational exposure to benzene is associated…
Dec. 5, 1996, marked the first time that all home buyers and tenants have the right to know…
On Jan. 29, 1996, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Carol M. Browner took the last steps concluding a…
In 1996, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found evidence of tobacco smoke exposure in…
On Sept. 27, 1995, a series of proposed reforms to reduce regulatory burden on pharmaceutical manufacturers were announced….
On Aug. 22, 1995, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approved the commercial production and distribution of the Bt…
On Jun. 10, 1993, the U.S. Congress signed the National Institutes of Health Revitalization Act, P.L. 103-43. The…
In 1992, the Center for Research on Occupational and Environmental Toxicology (CROET) building opened on the Oregon Health…
On Jun. 27, 1991, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approved two pesticides containing genetically engineered bacteria, marking…
On Apr. 22, 1990, the second Earth Day was celebrated by more than 225 million people. The first…
In 1990, the first tests and applications of microbials to combat oil spills were used with the Exxon…
In 1990, the Safe Water System (SWS) was developed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…
On Mar. 24, 1989, the oil tanker Exxon Valdez ran aground in Prince William Sound, Alaska, spilling 11…
In 1988, scientists at the University of Georgia’s Savannah River Ecology Laboratory find 10 times more genetic diversity…
On May 26, 1987, vandals uprooted approximately 3,000 potato plants being studied with ice-minus bacterium on a half-acre…
On Apr. 29, 1987, University of California, Berkeley plant pathologist Steven Lindow field-tested genetically altered Pseudomonas syringae (known…
On Apr. 24, 1987, Advanced Genetic Sciences (AGS) sprayed Frostban on an acre of strawberry plants in Brentwood,…
On Mar. 4, 1985, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee M. Thomas announced final standards to cut…
In 1985, Federal courts ruled that private companies don’t need National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) permission for field…
On May 23, 1984, U.S. Surgeon General reported that there was “very solid” evidence linking cigarette smoke to…
In 1984, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that if you genetically engineer any microbe intended for…
On Feb. 7, 1983, Rita M. Lavelle, head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Superfund program to clean…
In 1983, the National Institute of Health’s (NIH) Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee unanimously approved Lindow test. Stephen Lindow,…
On Jan. 21, 1982, C. Everett Koop was appointed U.S. Surgeon General by President Ronald Reagan. In 1984,…
In 1982, the WISEST (Women in Scholarship, Engineering, Science & Technology) began at the University of Alberta when…
In 1982, Steven Lindow from the University of California, Berkeley, was the first to ask permission to deliberately…
In July 1981, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services assigned implementation of the Superfund Act to…
On Dec. 11, 1980, the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), commonly known as Superfund, was…
On May 30, 1980, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a report of health…
In 1980, faculty members in the Stanford University’s Department of Pharmacology publicly expressed their opposition to the proposed…