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early advocate for wildlife conservation
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a book about wilderness, described the importance of nature
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The Sierra Club is one of the oldest, largest, and most influential grassroots environmental organizations in the United States
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is a conservation law in the United States that prohibits trade in wildlife, fish, and plants that have been illegally taken, possessed, transported or sold.
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Pinchot served as the first Chief of the United States Forest Service
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protection of gulls, terns, egrets, herons, and other waterbirds high on its conservation priority list.
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resulted from concerns about protecting mostly prehistoric Indian ruins and artifacts
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was the first federal effort to regulate grazing on federal public lands.
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authorized the annual issuance of what is popularly known as the Duck Stamp.
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It protects both plants and wildlife by making penalties for those who violate
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Silent Spring is an environmental science book written by Rachel Carson
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was written by Howard Zahniser of The Wilderness Society. It created the legal definition of wilderness in the United States
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When Congress passed the Endangered Species Act (ESA) in 1973, it recognized that our rich natural heritage is of “esthetic, ecological, educational, recreational, and scientific value to our Nation and its people.” It further expressed concern that many of our nation’s native plants and animals were in danger of becoming extinct.
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The objective of FIFRA is to provide federal control of pesticide distribution, sale, and use.
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The 1973 oil crisis started in October 1973 when the members of Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries or the OAPEC (consisting of the Arab members of OPEC, plus Egypt, Syria and Tunisia) proclaimed an oil embargo. By the end of the embargo in March 1974,[1] the price of oil had risen from $3 per barrel to nearly $12.
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Ozone depletion describes two distinct but related phenomena observed since the late 1970s: a steady decline of about 4% per decade in the total volume of ozone in Earth's stratosphere (the ozone layer), and a much larger springtime decrease in stratospheric ozone over Earth's polar regions
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is a United States federal law that funded irrigation projects for the arid lands of 20 states in the American West.
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The comprehensive national law that regulates air emmisions from stationary and mobile sources
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site had formerly been used to bury 21,000 tons of toxic waste by Hooker Chemical Company
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The Three Mile Island Unit 2 (TMI-2) reactor, near Middletown, Pa., partially melted down on March 28, 1979. This was the most serious accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant operating history
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The Bhopal disaster, also referred to as the Bhopal gas tragedy, was a gas leak incident in India, considered the world's worst industrial disaster.
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The Chernobyl disaster was a catastrophic nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine, which was under the direct jurisdiction of the central authorities of the Soviet Union.
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is the federal government's program to clean up the nation's uncontrolled hazardous waste sites.
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The Exxon Valdez oil spill occurred in Prince William Sound, Alaska, on March 24
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The Energy Policy Act of 1992 established regulations requiring certain federal, state, and alternative fuel provider fleets to build an inventory of alternative fuel
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a federal law, signed by President Bill Clinton, and passed by the United States Congress on October 8, 1994, that established the Death Valley
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remains the strongest tool to protect river ecosystems in the country. Some of the nation's premier rivers are protected
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