Environmental Protection Agency Crossword

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  1. 3. Laws guiding the EPA in protecting public health and nature.
  2. 4. Wisconsin senator credited with creating Earth Day.
  3. 5. Chemicals used to control pests that are overseen by the EPA.
  4. 10. Ten EPA offices located in different federal regions.
  5. 12. Research facilities used by the EPA across the country.
  6. 13. Rules written and enforced by the EPA based on laws passed by Congress.
  7. 15. Main EPA offices located in Washington DC.
  8. 16. Scientific work conducted to help protect human health and the environment.
  9. 18. Resource the EPA works to ensure is safe.
  10. 19. Hazard the EPA helps protect the public from.
  11. 20. Conservation leader who helped promote environmental protection.
  12. 21. Practice encouraged by the EPA to reduce resource use.
  13. 23. President who established the Environmental Protection Agency in 1970.
  14. 24. The natural world that the EPA works to protect.
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  1. 1. Author of Silent Spring who raised awareness of environmental pollution.
  2. 2. Efforts promoted by the EPA to reduce environmental damage.
  3. 6. Leader of the EPA appointed by the president and approved by Congress.
  4. 7. Environmental disasters the EPA helps respond to.
  5. 8. President who supported early conservation efforts.
  6. 9. Energy efficiency program launched by the EPA.
  7. 11. Protection and careful management of natural resources.
  8. 14. Federal agency responsible for protecting human health and the environment.
  9. 17. Contamination of air, water, or land that the EPA works to reduce.
  10. 22. Environmental awareness day first celebrated April 22, 1970.