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1960 - 1969
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| 1960s |
Last of the manufactured gas plants cease operation in U.S. Nationalized coal in Great Britain rises in price and forces retirement of small or inefficient gas works and consolidation into regional gas works. Natural gas dominates over manufactured gas in UK. Frequent corporate histories, some centennial in nature, of American gas companies. |
| 1960 |
Last originally-lit gas street lights at Cabot, Florida are extinguished as the gas plant closes. |
| 1961 |
Koppers Corporation closes its Texarkana, Texas wood treatment plant, established in 1910. U.S. Public Health Service Symposium on Groundwater Contamination. Proceedings of The National Conference on Water Pollution. National Water Research Symposium. Federal Highway Administration issues Status of Knowledge of Ground Water Contaminants. |
| 1962 |
U.S. Steel Corporation has 30 coke-oven batteries and 90,000 employees in U.S. |
| 1963 |
A Study of Pollution - Water: Staff Report to Committee on Public Works, Senate, 89th Congress California State Water Quality Control Board Issues Water Quality Criteria, 2nd, ed. |
| 1964 |
London Gas Council issues The Physical Properties of Town Gas and Its Combustion Products, by Wilfrid Francis. |
| 1965 |
Britain's North Sea gas deposits discovered. |
| 1966 |
U.S. Steel Corporation has nine coke-oven batteries and 20,000 employees in U.S. |
| 1967 |
Motor Fuels, a book by Wm. A. Gruse clarifies the essential differences between coal-tar residuals and petroleum hydrocarbons. |
| 1968 |
First liquefied natural gas (LNG) imported into U.S., at Boston; conversion for peak shaving. |
| 1969 |
Annual Meeting of Institute of Gas Technology focuses on coal gasification as replacement of depleting natural gas reserves; Launches massive U.S. Dept. Energy program which results in numerous present-day coal-tar contamination sites. |
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