| A | B |
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| Included miniumum auto emissions standards across the nation, and other rules for improving air and water quality | Clean Air Act (1963) |
| Tough restrictions on the amount of pollutants that could come out of automobile tail pipes. | Auto emission standards |
| A new part of the federal bureaucracy that was created by Nixon in response to the protest politics of the 60's and 70's | Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) |
| An act of legislation passed by Congress to increase the number of laws protecting water quality and the environment for years to come afterward | Water Quality Improvement Act (1970) |
| forbids buying or selling a bird, fish animal or plant that the government regards as "endangered," or engaging in any economic activity that would harm an endangered species. | Endangered Species Act |
| gases, such as carbon dioxide, produced by people when they burn fossil fuels get trapped in the atmosphere and cause the earth's temperature to rise | global warming |
| United States pledged to lower emissions of greenhouse gases by 7 percent below 1990 levels | Kyoto Protocol |
| clouds of pollution, mainly around large metropolitan areas, that are caused by car exhaust, and smokestack pollution | smog |
| acidic precipitation that falls ontoo the land and is caused mainly by burning fuels like coal. | acid rain |
| a report required by federal law that assesses the possible effect of a project on the environment if the project is subsidized in whole or in part by federal funds. | environmental impact statement |
| Through her book, Silent Spring (1962), she set off a public outcry about the harm to wildlife caused by the indiscriminate use of DDT, a common pesticide. | Rachel Carlson |
| A common pesticide used by farmers, that was very harmful to animals. It was banned by the EPA in 1972. | DDT |
| A law that gave the government the power to sue any person or company that had dumped toxic waste, and taxed chemical and petroleum industires and put the proceeds, along with general tax revenues, into a trust fund to pay for cleaning up abandoned hazardous waste sites. | Superfund |
| A strategy to improve air and water quality, involving the setting of detailed pollution standards and rules. | command-and-control strategy |
| An environmental rule that a company in an area with polluted air can offset its own pollution by reducing pollution from another source in the area. For example, a new company could buy an existing company and tear it down so that it may have a plant. | Offset |
| The total amount of air pollution that can come from a given factory. The factory may choose how to control its pollution, and which parts of the factory to control. | bubble standard |
| A reduction in pollution below that required by law that can be used to cover a future expansion or sold to another company whose pollution emissions are above the legal requirements. | Pollution allowances |
