Across
- 3. A public assistance program designed to provide health care for poor Americans
- 4. A fund created by Congress in 1980 to clean up hazardous waste sites that is funded by taxes on chemical products
- 5. The law that charged the Department of Transportation with the responsibility to reduce automobile emissions
- 6. An agency of the federal government created in 1970 and charged with administering all the government's environmental legislation
- 9. This law requires the federal government to protect actively each of the hundreds of species listed as endangered
- 10. Organization contracted by individuals or insurance companies to provide health care for a yearly fee
Down
- 1. A law intended to clean up the nation's rivers and lakes, requiring municipal, industrial, and other polluters to use pollution control technology and secure permits from the EPA for discharging waste products into waters
- 2. A compulsory insurance program for all Americans that would have the government finance citizens' medical care
- 7. 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.
- 8. 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