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What is the law created by Congress to clean up hazardous waste?

Superfund (creation of superfund sites)

100

What are the three points of the iron triangle

Special interest Groups, Congressional Committees, and Federal Bureaucracy 
100

Which President signed the Endangered Species Act?

Nixon

200

What is the law intended to clean up lakes and rivers?

Water Pollution Control Act

200

Will biodiversity increase or decrease if the climate continues to rise?

Decrease

200

Which President signed the EPA into law?

Nixon

300

What is the law regarding the reduction of auto emissions?

The Clean Air Act of 1970

300

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)

300

Which President removed the solar panels from the White House

Reagan


400

The act requiring the federal government's protection of endangered species

Endangered Species Act of 1973

400

What 1962 book is largely credited with launching the modern environmental movement?

Rachel Carson's Silent Spring

400

Which influential environmentalist was buddies with Theodore Roosevelt

John Muir

500

Act establishing minimum (primarily health-related) standards to protect tap water

Safe Drinking Water Act

500

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

500

In which decade was the most environmental legislation passed?

the 70s