Important Laws | Random | History |
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Superfund
What is the law created by Congress to clan up hazardous waste sites? |
Interest groups, Congress, and Bureaucracy
What are the three points of the iron triangle? |
Nixon
Which President the signed the Endangered Species Act? |
Water Pollution Control Act
What is the law intended to to clean up the nation's lakes and rivers? |
Biodiversity will decrease
Will biodiversity increase or decrease if the climate continues to rise? |
Nixon
Which President signed the EPA into action? |
The Clean Air Act of 1970
What is the law that charges the responsibility with the responsibility of reducing automobile emissions? |
Conservatives/Republicans
What group typically argues that there is not enough evidence to support that global warming is "real" |
Reagan (asshole)
Which President took the solar panels off the White House? |
Endangered Species Act of 1973
What is the act that requires the federal government to protect actively each of the hundreds of species listed as endangered? |
Liberals/Democrats
What group typically is more willing to support evidence of climate change and support environmental legislation |
John Muir
Which influential environmentalist was good friends and partners with President Theodore Roosevelt? |
The Clean Water Act
What law requires that you must get a discharge pollutants? |
Carbon Dioxide
What is the greenhouse gas (emitted from fossil fuel burning) that is of most concern? |
The 1970s
What decade was most environmental legislation passed in? |