Chapter 32
Across
- 3. authorized the development of comprehensive federal and state regulations to limit emissions from both stationary (industrial) sources and mobile sources.
- 4. the introduction of harmful materials into the environment
- 7. the use of nuclear reactions to produce electricity.
- 9. chemical compounds that are used to kill pests, including insects, rodents, fungi and unwanted plants (weeds).
- 10. a person who is concerned with or advocates the protection of the environment.
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- 1. regulates commercial nuclear power plants and other uses of nuclear materials, such as in nuclear medicine, through licensing, inspection
- 2. American marine biologist, writer, and conservationist whose influential book Silent Spring and other writings are credited with advancing the global environmental movement
- 5. Unit 2 reactor on the Susquehanna River in Londonderry Township, Pennsylvania, near the Pennsylvania capital of Harrisburg. It began at 4 a.m. on March 28, 1979, and released radioactive gases and radioactive iodine into the environment.
- 6. a severe nuclear reactor accident that results in core damage from overheating.
- 8. annual event on April 22 to demonstrate support for environmental protection.
- 10. independent executive agency of the United States federal government tasked with environmental protection matters.