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founded Sierra Club in 1892; fought unsuccessfully to prevent the damming of the Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park
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prohibits interstate transport of wild animals dead or alive without federal permit
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wrote A Sand County Almanac published a year after his death in 1948; promoted a "Land Ethic" in which humans are ethically responsible for serving as the protectors of nature
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published Silent Spring in 1962; documented the environmental damage done by DDT and other pesticides. Which heightened public awareness at the start of the modern environmental movement
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protects rivers with due to aesthetic, recreational, wildlife, historical, or cultural reasons
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published "The Tragedy of the Commons" in the journal Science in 1968; argued that rational people will exploit shared resources (commons)
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environmental impact statements must be done before any project affecting federal lands can be started
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set emission standards for cars, and limits for release of air pollutants
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set maxium permissible amounts of water pollitants that can be discharged into waterways. Aim: to make surface waters swimmable and fishable.
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prohibits taking marine mammals in the U.S. waters and by U.S. citizens, and the importing marine mammals and marine mammals products into the U.S.
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identifies threatened and endangered species in the US, and puts their protection ahead of economic considerations
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controls hazardous waste with a cadle to grave system
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requires coal strip mines to reclaim the land
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the "superfund" act, designed to identify and clean up abandoned hazardous waste dumpsite
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all states must have facilities to handle low-level radioactive wastes
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US government must develop a high level nuclear waste site by 2015
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bans ocean dumping of sewage and industrial waste
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set pesticides limits in foods, and all active and inactive ingredients must be screened for estrogenic/endocrine effects
