
Creation of Environmental Protection Agency origins4.jpg ACHIVEMENTS BEFORE & AFTER EPA:
Soil Conservation Service
Pittman-Robertson Act
Tennessee Valley Authority
Environmental Quality Council
Citizens' Adviory Committee on Environmental Quality
National Environmental Policy Act
Council of Environmental Quality
Clean Air Act of 1970
Rachel Carson- ''Silent Spring'' (1962)
Theodore Roosevelt- ''western'' conservation camping trip (1903)
Franklin Roosevelt- Soil Conservation Service, Pittman-Robertson Act, & Tennessee Valley Authority
Kennedy & Johnson- speeches & legislative programs William D. Ruckelshaus
1st administrator origins7.jpg origins5.jpg On December 2, 1970, in Washington D.C., the EPA opened it's doors. The purpose or mission of the agency, in general was:
protect human health
safeguard the natural environment
Department of Health, Education, & Welfare (HEW)
*National Air Pollution Control Administration (NAPCA)
*bureaus of Water Hygiene & Soild Waste Management
Bureau of Radiological Health
Food & Drug Administration
Interior's Water Quality Administration (FWQA) Nixon's wants for the EPA:
*establish & enforce environmental protection standards
*conduct environmetal research
*provide assistance to others combatting environmental pollution
*assist the CEQ (council on environmental quality) in developing & recommending to the President new policies for environmental protection Video 1
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