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Ecology and Environment Inc company history timeline

1970

On April 22, 1970 the first Earth Day was celebrated by some 20 million Americans.

1970’s James Lovelock’s idea of Gaia, that the whole earth is one living entity and will ensure its own survival even if humans destroy themselves

One week before Earth Day 1970, four men trained in engineering, physics, and biophysics formed Ecology and Environment, Inc. to work in the environmental consulting business.

1974

1974: E & E lands its first major federal contract to work on Trans-Alaskan pipeline.

Most of E & E's early business was done locally in the Buffalo area and involved waste-water and water-pollution control. It landed its first major contract in 1974 with the Department of Interior to act as its environmental monitors during the design and construction of the $8 billion, 800-mile Trans-Alaskan pipeline, the largest private construction project ever undertaken.

1978

1978 Conservation Biology established as a discipline focusing on environmental management

1979

In 1979 E & E became the environmental consultant to the Saudi Arabian Royal Commissioner for Jubail and Yanbu.

1987

In June 1987 E & E filed an initial public offering of one million Class A common shares of stock with the Securities and Exchange Commission and began trading on the American Stock Exchange.

1994

E & E's profits grew during the first two years of the Clinton Administration, but the 1994 Republican takeover of the Congress soon had a chilling effect on the environmental services industry.

1998

In January 1998 the company became involved in reviving the shellfish industry in the Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island that had both pollution and over-harvesting had damaged.

1999

In 1999 E & E acquired a controlling interest in an environmental consulting company in Chile, as well as a Colorado firm, Walsh Environmental Scientists and Engineers.

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Founded
1970
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Headquarters
Lancaster, NY
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Founders
Gerald Strobel,Ronald Frank
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