To at least partially control this health menace Congress passed several regulatory measures, including the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act, the 1906/07 Meat Inspection Act, and the 1914 Harrison Narcotics Act. We may think that federal intervention in environmental issues is only a recent occurrence, Coney Island yet the federal government took its first stand on this topic during the Progressive Era with the passage of the 1899 Refuse Act which outlawed the dumping of waste materials into navigable waters, and the 1910 Insecticide Act controlling the interstate shipment of early chemical pesticides.