Environmental Laws

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  1. 3. This 1969 law requires federal agencies to assess environmental impacts.
  2. 5. The agency created to enforce environmental protection laws.
  3. 7. This 1980 law helps clean up hazardous waste sites.
  4. 8. A law designed to protect species from extinction, passed in 1973.
  5. 9. The practice of conserving resources for future generations.
  6. 10. Hetchy An area in California flooded by the O’Shaughnessy Dam.
  7. 11. The idea that shared resources are overused and depleted.
  8. 12. A naturalist who opposed the damming of Hetch Hetchy.
  9. 13. The first U.S. law aimed at air pollution, passed in 1963.
  10. 14. This 1970 law created the EPA to fight air pollution.
  11. 15. A law passed in 1974 to keep public drinking water clean.
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  1. 1. This 1972 law controls pollution in rivers, lakes, and oceans.
  2. 2. A term for a material harmful to air, water, or soil.
  3. 4. A 1976 law governing hazardous waste disposal.
  4. 5. A movement to protect nature and improve the environment.
  5. 6. A valley in Yosemite National Park flooded for water storage in 1923.