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This book was a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings.
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John Muir was a Scottish-American naturalist, author, and early advocate of preservation of wilderness in the United States
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The Sierra Club is one of the oldest, largest, and most influential grassroots environmental organizations in the United States.
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The Lacey Act of 1900 is a conservation law in the United States that prohibits trade in wildlife, fish, and plants that have been illegally taken, possessed, transported or sold.
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National Wildlife Refuge is a designation for certain protected areas of the United States managed by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service.
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The United States Forest Service is an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture that administers harvesting and development of the nation's 155 national forests and 20 national grasslands.
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Gifford Pinchot was an American forester and politician. Pinchot also served as the first Chief of the United States Forest Service.
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The National Audubon Society is an American, non-profit, environmental organization dedicated to conservation.
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This law gives the President of the United States the authority to, by executive order, restrict the use of particular public land owned by the federal government.
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The Taylor Grazing Act of 1934 is a United States federal law that provides for the regulation of grazing on the public lands (excluding Alaska) to improve rangeland conditions and regulate their use.
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This act requires each waterfowl hunter 16 years of age or older to possess a valid Federal hunting stamp.
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The United States Fish and Wildlife Service is a federal government agency within the U.S. Department of the Interior dedicated to the management of fish, wildlife, and natural habitats.
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Silent Spring is an environmental science book written by Rachel Carson and published by Houghton Mifflin on September 27, 1962.
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It created the legal definition of wilderness in the United States, and protected 9.1 million acres (36,000 km²) of federal land.
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Among other things, the commission recommended that the nation protect wild rivers and scenic rivers from development that would substantially change their wild or scenic nature.
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The river is famous for being "the river that caught fire," helping to spur the environmental movement in the late 1960s.
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The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) requires federal agencies to integrate environmental values into their decision making processes by considering the environmental impacts of their proposed actions and reasonable alternatives to those actions.
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The Clean Air Act is a United States federal law designed to control air pollution on a national level.
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It. was designed to protect critically imperiled species from extinction as a "consequence of economic growth and development untempered by adequate concern and conservation.
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The objective of FIFRA is to provide federal control of pesticide distribution, sale, and use.
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OPEC is an international organization and economic cartel whose mission is to coordinate the policies of the oil-producing countries.
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They suggested that long-lived organic halogen compounds, such as CFCs, might behave in a similar fashion as Crutzen had proposed for nitrous oxide.
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RCRA is the principal federal law in the United States governing the disposal of solid waste and hazardous waste.
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CWA is the primary federal law in the United States governing water pollution.
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SMCRA is the primary federal law that regulates the environmental effects of coal mining in the United States.
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Love Canal was a neighborhood in Niagara Falls, New York, located in the LaSalle section of the city.
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The Three Mile Island accident was a partial nuclear meltdown that occurred on March 28, 1979 in one of the two Three Mile Island nuclear reactors in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States.
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The Bhopal disaster, also referred to as the Bhopal gas tragedy, was a gas leak incident in India, considered the world's worst industrial disaster.
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The Chernobyl disaster was a catastrophic nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine, which was under the direct jurisdiction of the central authorities of the Soviet Union.
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This law created a tax on the chemical and petroleum industries and provided broad Federal authority to respond directly to releases or threatened releases of hazardous substances that may endanger public health or the environment.
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Montreal Protocol is an international treaty designed to protect the ozone layer by phasing out the production of numerous substances that are responsible for ozone depletion.
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The Exxon Valdez oil spill occurred in Prince William Sound, Alaska, on March 24, 1989, when Exxon Valdez, an oil tanker bound for Long Beach, California, struck Prince William Sound's Bligh Reef.
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It was passed by Congress and set goals, created mandates, and amended utility laws to increase clean energy use and improve overall energy efficiency in the United States.
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established the Death Valley and Joshua Tree National Parks and the Mojave National Preserve in the California desert.
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