Environmental

Clean Water Act 1972

• established the National Park Service (NPS), an agency of the U.S. Department of the Interior. 

• U.S. federal law that regulates the discharge of pollutants into the nation's surface waters, including lakes, rivers, streams, wetlands, and coastal areas. Passed in 1972 and amended in 1977 and 1987, the Clean Water Actwas originally 

• legislation that grants public access to documents or other data in the possession of a government agency or public authority, unless the information falls into a category that is specifically excluded from the terms of the legislation.

This is the federal organization that ensures that all Americans are protected against specific hazards to the environment and human health where they learn, work and live.

• Department of Energy

• Nuclear Regulatory Commission

• Environmental Protection Agency

• Energy Policy Act

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Which act was created by the US Environmental Protection Agency to authorize the National Ambient AirQuality Standards (NAAQS) to assist in the creations of law to protect the environment?

• National Environmental Policy Act

• Clean Air Act

• Energy Independence and Security Act

• Energy Policy Act

Endangered Species Act 1973 

• created the National Wilderness Preservation System and recognized wilderness as “an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain.

• Protects endangered species

• significantly amended portions of the Marine Protection, Research and Sanctuaries Act 

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This act  was created by the US Environmental Protection Agency to authorize the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) to assist in the creations of law to protect the environment. This act was also established to handle problems such as acid rain, ground-level ozone, and air toxics.

• Clean Air Act

• Clean Water Act

• Energy Policy Act

• Department of Energy

Which act protects fish, shellfish, and wildlife in rivers, lakes, streams and oceans?

• Pollution Prevention Act

• Energy Independence and Security Act

• Energy Policy Act

• Clean Water Act

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The Clean Air Act is monitored and enforced by the

• The Paris Accord

• GSA-Government Services Agency

• Virginia

• EPA-Environmental Protection Agency 

Designed to protect the ozone layer by phasing out substances responsible

• Montreal Protocol

• Kyoto Protocol

• Madrid Protocol

• Yucca Protocol

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Global warming is...

• used to describe a type of animal or plant that has become very rare and that could die out completely.

• able to be extended for another time period: able to be renewed.

• the rise of air temperatures near Earth's surface.

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Acid rain is ...

• used to describe a type of animal or plant that has become very rare and that could die out completely.

• an extremely large, powerful, and destructive storm with very strong winds that occurs especially in the western part of the Atlantic ocean.

• rain that contain dangerous chemicals because of smoke from cars and factories.

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