Healthcare and the Environment

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6. The increase in the earth's temperatures that, according to most scientists, is occurring as a result of the carbon dioxide that is produced when fossil fuels are burned collecting in the atmosphere and trapping energy from the sun.
9. A compulsory insurance program for all Americans that would have the government finance citizens' medical care.
10. Organization contracted by individuals or insurance companies to provide health care for a yearly fee.
11. A program added to the Social Security system in 1965 that provides hospitalization insurance for the elderly and permits older Americans to purchase inexpensive coverage for doctor fees and other medical expenses.
13. A detailing of a proposed policy's environmental effects, which agencies are required to file with the EPA every time they propose to undertake a policy that might be disruptive to the environment.
15. A law intended to clean up the nation's rivers and lakes, by enabling regulation of point sources of pollution.

2. The largest federal independent regulatory agency, created in 1970 to administer much of U.S. environmental protection policy.
3. Passed in 1969, the center-piece of federal environmental policy, which requires agencies to file environmental impact statements.
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5. A law requiring the federal government to protect all species listed as endangered.
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8. A public assistance program designed to provide health care for poor Americans and funded by both the states and the national government.
12. The law aimed at combating air pollution, by charging the EPA with protecting and improving the quality of the nation's air.
14. A fund created by Congress in 1980 to clean up hazardous waste sites. Money for the fund comes from taxing chemical products.