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Environmental Law: Government and Public Policy Towards the Environment

Environmental Science

The Clean Air Act is an excellent example of this following the publication of Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring. The Clean Air Act : The oldest and best known of all environmental laws here in the US is the Clean Air Act. Title III of the Act created EPCRA (see above).

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When Democrats and Republicans united to repair the Earth

Environment, Law, and History

The central takeaway of this book is that though Democrats controlled Congress throughout these years, “all environmental laws passed from 1964 to 1976 commanded huge bipartisan support” (p.

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Special Policy News #6: The Transition

ESA

USFWS: The agency is proposing downlisting the status of the Hawaiian stilt ( Himantopus mexicanus knudseni , also known as ae`o) from endangered to threatened under the Endangered Species Act. Fish and Wildlife Service first listed the species under the Endangered Species Act in 1975.

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