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EPA. Nixon signed NEPA into law on January 1, 1970. The law established the CEQ in the Executive Office of the President. NEPA required that a detailed statement

legislation (including the 1970 Clean Air Act and 1972 Clean Water Act). The public outrage in reaction to the Santa Barbara oil spill in early 1969 occurred

Act of 1970 started out as H.R. 4148 in the U.S. House of Representatives Public Works Committee in April 1970. It was taken up by the U.S. Senate Public

200 years of service in its role as successor to the U.S. Survey of the Coast. NOAA was officially formed in 1970. In 2021, NOAA had 11,833 civilian employees

an element of NOAA. The remainder of the USFWS remained in place in the Department of the Interior in 1970 as the foundation of the USFWS as it is known

organization with the word "environment" in its title, ESSA was the first such organization chartered to study the global natural environment as whole, bringing

"Father of the Department of Agriculture." In 1849, the Patent Office was transferred to the newly created Department of the Interior. In the ensuing years

to advance the president's agenda on the environment, natural resources, and energy. The United States Congress established the CEQ within the Executive

should stay intact as the bluff falls from underneath its seaward end.") In 2016, the NMFS caused the death of the L95 killer whale of the critically endangered

federal agency in 2015 In 2012, the DOT awarded $742.5 million in funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to 11 transit projects. The awardees

over the end of Prohibition. In 1936, Roosevelt won a landslide reelection. He was unable to expand the Supreme Court in 1937, the same year the conservative

agency. The agency was renamed the United States Coast Survey in 1836 and the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey in 1878. On October 3, 1970, when the

1875. In 1876, Congress formed the office of Special Agent in the Department of Agriculture to assess the quality and conditions of forests in the United

from the Nixon administration's involvement in Watergate eroded his support in Congress and the country. The scandal began with a break-in at the Democratic

put out the fire in the glovebox. After putting out the original source, there was an explosion in the ventilation system. The fire burned the filters

Department of Transportation. The FHWA took over the functions of the Bureau of Public Roads the following year. The FHWA's role in the Federal-aid Highway Program

or to the associate attorney general (in the case of the Antitrust, Civil, Civil Rights, Environment & Natural Resources, and Tax Divisions and the Office

agency. The compromise bill also gave the Department of Labor the power to litigate on the enforcement agency's behalf (as in the Democratic bill). In November

general in the discharge of their responsibilities. The secretary of state, the secretary of the treasury, the secretary of defense, and the attorney general

appears on the obverse of the ten-dollar bill, while the Treasury Building in Washington, D.C. is depicted on the reverse. The history of the Department