In July of 1970, the White House and Congress workedtogethertoestablishtheEnvironmentalPro

In July of 1970, the White House and Congress worked

together to establish the Environmental Protection Agency

(EPA) in response to the growing public demand for cleaner

water, air and land. Prior the establishment of 【S1】______

the EPA, the federal government is not structured to make 【S2】______

a coordinated attack on the pollutants that harm human health

and degrade the environment. The EPA was assigning the task 【S3】______

of repairing the damage already done to the natural environ

ment and to establish new criteria to guide Americans in making

a cleaner environment a reality.

Bom in the awake of elevated concern about environmental 【S4】______

mental pollution, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

opened its doors in downtown Washington, D.C., on December 2,

1970. EPA was established to consolidate in one agency the variety 【S5】______

of federal research, monitoring, standard-setting and

enforcement activity to ensure environmental protection. 【S6】______

EPA's mission is to protect human health and to safeguard

the naturally environment-air, water, and land-upon 【S7】______

which life depend. For more than 30 years, the EPA 【S8】______

has been working for a cleaner, healthier environment for the

American people.

From regulating auto emissions to ban the use of 【S9】______

DDT; from cleaning up toxic waste to protecting the ozone

layer; from increasing recycling to revitalizing inner-city brown-

fields, EPA's achievements have resulted in cleaner alr, purer

water, and well protected land. 【S10】______

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