Environmental Policy

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Environmental Policy
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Environmental Policy

• Theodore Roosevelt
• Preserved 240 million acres
• National Forest
• National Wildlife Refuge Systems
• Interior Department Gale Norton
• EPA Nixon, 1970
• Mike Leavitt
• Carter most prolific, Bush the least.
• Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
• Standards of Protection

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Environmental IssuesAir

• Air Pollution Control Act of 1955
• Clean Air Act, 1970

• Air Pollution in Texas
• Urban Sprawl

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Environmental Issues

• Clean Water Act, 1972
• http//www.epa.gov/watertrain/cwa/

• Endangered Species Act, 1973
• Why is this Act so controversial?