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John was a Conservationist and founded the Sierra Club
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A book written over course of two years and two months, describing his expiernces he had while living near Walden pond.
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Provided familys with 160 acers of land as long as they "improved" it.
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The oldest group in america who promoted forrest conservtion.
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It allows the President to create forrest preserves
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the oldest and largest environmental organization in america
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This act puts protection on plants and wildlife and also pohibits trade of plants and wildlife that was taken illegally.
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A group that is in charge of 155 national forret and 20 national grassland
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This was created to protect all types of water birds, and establish reserves for them
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Greatly known for the Managment of the forrest reserves
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Known by many as the Father of the Wilderness, he wrote "A Sand Country Alamanac"
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It protects all historic and prehistoric sites and prohibits the destructions of the land unless a permit is required. it also allows the President to declare land as a national landmark.
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It was a work relief program for unemployed men, ages 18-25
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The Soil Conservation Service provides assistance to farmers and other private landowners and managers.
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This is an act that provides the regulation of grazing on public lands to improve rangeland conditions and regulate their use
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This was created to stop te over hunting of birds, anybody over the age of 16 must purchase a stamp in order to hunt.
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An angency created to protect and manage wildlife, fish, and natural habbitats.
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She is known for her outanding work wit chimpanzees, also created the jane goodall institute
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A book written about the pesticides and how they are affecting the enviorment, especially birds.
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The wildneress ACt created the leagall defintion of wilderness and protected over 9 acers of federal land
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This act was created to ensure that we control our air polution, and it also created a research team.
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An addmendment was added that required the U.S. Department of Health to create and enforce auto emixssion standards
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created to protect the rivers nartural beauty, and also its recreatinal value for future genrations to expiernce it.
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Richard Nixon created a 37 point message about the American enviorment, describing what all had to be done to save it
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One of the most poluted rivers at the time, catching fire causing a lot fo damage along the river
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This act was the first act that made the goverment give proper onsideration to the enviorment when making a major law that could affect the enviorment.
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This agencyw as created for research, monitoring, standard-setting and enforcement activities to make sure we have good environmental protection.
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The clean Air act of 1970 has four major componets. The National Ambient Air Quality Standards targeted major polluting chemicals, such standards were intended to protect human health as well as the environment. Next was the EPA was to create standards for compainies as to how much pollution they were allowed to emit. Thirdly, the Act specified standards for controlling auto emissions with the hope of reducing various gases. Lastly, the goverment encourage states to make plans to reduce the gas.
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It was created to oversee the sales and use of pesticides with emphasis on the preservation of human health and protection of the environment
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This act makes it illegal to seel oil to allies of israel in the Yom Kippur with esyria, jordan, and egypt.
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It was added that you were allowed to get expiemental permits for agirculture research activities.
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This act was created to control the disposal of solid and hazardous waste
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This added more addmendments to the act, dealing withthe states that did not make plans to reduce the gasses and auto emmisions from their state.
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This act was for regulating the discharge of pollutants from a point source to waters in the United States.
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This act regulated the enviormental effects of mining coal, and forced people to abandon over a million coal mines
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This is where Niagara Falls and Bergholtz river meets, and when people found out it was being used to dump toxic waste it began to bring a lot of attention.
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This was when a partial nuclear meltdown happened in one of the two nuclear reactors in te plant causing some radioactive gases and iodine to slip into the enviorment.
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This protected over 100 million acres of land in Alaska
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This law created a tax on the chemical and petroleum industries and provided some enforcement of releasesof hazardous substances that may endanger public health or the environment
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A pesticide plant leaks and causes a toxic gass cloud to float over Bhopal and kill 2,000 people
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A reactor in a nuclear plant malfunctioned and released 5% of its core into the atmosphere
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This was ammended by the SARA, which made several iportant changes to the prgogram
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This was put in place to protect the ozone layer by not allowing harmful substances deplete our ozone
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This was when an oil tanker wrecked on a reef in Alaska spilling over 11 millions gallons of Oil
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The last addition to this act was to focus on the acid rain, toxic pollutants, deadlines for non compliant ares, and the three layers of the ozone layer.
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This added the Oil act which allowed them ti respond to oil spills
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This act was to make energy more efficent and more conservtive
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This act made several new nlandmarks and national parks and said we must preserve the land as if it was a nationa park
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The UN set emmison targets to try and reduce the pollutants in the air
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