Laws!
What is the law created by Congress to clean up hazardous waste?
Superfund (creation of superfund sites)
What are the three points of the iron triangle
Which President signed the Endangered Species Act?
Nixon
What is the law intended to clean up lakes and rivers?
Water Pollution Control Act
Will biodiversity increase or decrease if the climate continues to rise?
Decrease
Which President signed the EPA into law?
Nixon
What is the law regarding the reduction of auto emissions?
The Clean Air Act of 1970
In 2019, what Great Lake did Ohio voters grant legal rights to?
Lake Erie (this bill was deemed unconstitutionally vague by federal courts less than a year later)
Which President removed the solar panels from the White House
Reagan
The act requiring the federal government's protection of endangered species
Endangered Species Act of 1973
What 1962 book is largely credited with launching the modern environmental movement?
Rachel Carson's Silent Spring
Which influential environmentalist was buddies with Theodore Roosevelt
John Muir
Act establishing minimum (primarily health-related) standards to protect tap water
Safe Drinking Water Act
What country granted the Law of the Rights of Mother Earth, granting nature the same legal rights to life, regeneration, and water as humans
Bolivia
In which decade was the most environmental legislation passed?
the 70s