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| 1974 (September 22) || General || Organization || The {{w|Central Pollution Control Board}} is formed in India.<ref>{{cite web |title=Central Pollution Control Board |url=http://cpcb.nic.in/Introduction/ |website=cpcb.nic.in |accessdate=29 April 2019}}</ref> || {{w|India}}
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| 1976 || || || {{w|Seveso disaster}} || Italy
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| 1979 (November 13) || {{w|Air pollution}} || Treaty || The {{w|Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution}} opens for signature. It would enter into force on March 16, 1983.<ref>{{cite web |title=Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution |url=https://treaties.un.org/Pages/ViewDetails.aspx?src=TREATY&mtdsg_no=XXVII-1&chapter=27&clang=_en |website=treaties.un.org |accessdate=18 May 2019}}</ref> ||
| 1999 || {{w|Plastic pollution}}, {{w|water pollution}} || Research || In samples taken from the {{w|North Pacific Gyre}} by the Algalita Marine Research Foundation, the mass of plastic is found to exceed that of {{w|zooplankton}} by a factor of six.<ref name=Weisman>{{cite book |author=Weisman, Alan |title=The World Without Us |year=2007 |publisher=St. Martin's Thomas Dunne Books |isbn=978-0-312-34729-1}}</ref><ref name=AlgalitaVid>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVwuPSLx2Xc |title=Plastics and Marine Debris |accessdate=1 July 2008 |year=2006 |publisher=Algalita Marine Research Foundation |deadurl=no |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100714181845/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVwuPSLx2Xc |archivedate=14 July 2010 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> ||
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| 2000 || {{w|Water póllution}} || || {{w|Martin County sludge spill}} || {{w|United States}}
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| 2001 (May 22) || General || Treaty || The {{w|Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants}} is signed as an international environmental treaty with the purpose to eliminate or restrict the production and use of {{w|persistent organic pollutants}}. It would become effective on 17 May 2004.<ref>{{cite web |title=Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants |url=https://treaties.un.org/pages/ViewDetails.aspx?src=TREATY&mtdsg_no=XXVII-15&chapter=27 |website=treaties.un.org |accessdate=18 May 2019}}</ref> || {{w|Sweden}}
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