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Established US national park service
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Protects two species of eagle.
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Consolidated and revised substantially all existing legislation relating to the public health service.
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Establish Antarctica as a scientific preserve thus creating freedom of scientif investigation and no military advancement.
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Designed to control air pollution on a national level, requires EPA to develop and enforce regulations to protect the public from airborne contaminants.
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Initiate and carry out programs that aim to conserve, restore and propegate certain species of indegineous fish and wild life determined to be in danger of extiction.
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Inspired public concerns of pesticides and pollution of the environment and facilitated the ban of DDT.
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Animals nearing extinction were not being given suffiecient protection.
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US law that established policy of enhancing the enviornment and also estavlished the president's council on enviornmental quaility.
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Capitalizes on emergency on conciousness channeling the engergy of anti-war and putting environmental concerns front and center.
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amendments were made that greatly expanded the federal mandate erquiring comprehensive federal and state reulations.
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Agency provides federal research,monitering, and eforcement activities to ensure environmental protection
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Banned for agricultural use world wide.
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International institution that coordinates UN enviornmental activities.
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establishes the basic structure for regulating discharges of pollutants into the waters of the us regulating quality standards for surfact waters.
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designed to protect critically imperiled species from extinction.
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Provides EPA with authority to require repoting, record keeping and testing requirements, and restricitons relating to chemical substances.
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Control hazardous waste from "cradle to grave".
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Niagra Falls upstate NY- Toxic waste from previous decades bubbled up into the town which cause a nuclear meltdown.
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Pennsylvania- Worst accident in US commercial and nuclear power plant history.
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The result of a flawed reactor design that was operated with inadequately trained personnel, resulting in increased cancers.
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Oil tanker spills 11 million gallons of crude oil alogn the Alaskan coast.
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Diverse group of people that are moving the building industry forward.
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Managed the use of pesticides and mandated health base standards for pesticides used in foods.
