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Refuse act
limits debris in navigable streams -
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Time Span federal gov gave funding for research in air pollution
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ESEA -elementary secondary education act
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Educationg Act
Fought intesnly by southern democrats thought it would mean deseg withheld federal $. inorder to pass- bribe legislator with a sectiong that gives private schools book $ -
Motor Vehicle Air Pollution Control Act
first federal program to diretly reuglate air pollution and set autobile emmision standards -
Clean Water Restoration Act
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Clean Air Act Amendments Implemented
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national environmental policy act
nixon created advisory group
a) environmental impact statements - address positive and negative impacts, positve and negative alternatives, etc. Had to be filed by federal agencies for public projects affecting environment
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Water Pollution Control Amendments
goal was to place emphasis on discharge control not water quality. -by 1985 goal to end all discharge pollutants into waterways
-by 1983- water safe for fish shellfish humans aniamls
-goal by 1977 was to have the best practicable control technology to eliminate contaiminants
-by 1983 best available technology -
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water pollution control act amendments
goal by 1983 was to make water safter for: shellfish, fish, humans, animals -
Kyoto Protocol
China and India signed it because they're exempt from it – forces them to reduce emissions -
No Child Left Behind
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No child left behind signed
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Bush Admin Energy Bill
Costs over $50 billiom im the next decade and the 2007 energy bill costs more- almost all of it is unecessary or a give away to buisness and consumers, often for the wrong type of nergy- what is necessary should be called energy policy -
No Child left behind is again called ESEA