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jazziefee

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Which president successfully championed the creation of the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and a much broadened regulatory role for the federal government in reducing environmental pollution?
 
  a. Lyndon Johnson
  b. Richard Nixon
  c. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
  d. George W. Bush

Question 2

The seminal Clean Air Act of 1970 did which of the following?
 
  a. Charged the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with setting air quality standards that would apply nationwide
  b. Created a national pollution tax to be assessed against all industrial polluters
  c. Established a large contingent of federal pollution monitors, who were charged with monitoring and enforcing compliance with the law's provisions
  d. All of the above


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ergserg

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Reply #1 on: Jul 9, 2018
Answer to Question 1

b

Answer to Question 2

a


jazziefee

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Reply #2 on: Jul 9, 2018
Correct answers!


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Reply #3 on: Jul 9, 2018
Great! Please up vote :D


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