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  2. United States Environmental Protection Agency - Wikipedia

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    The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is an independent agency of the United States government tasked with environmental protection matters. [2] President Richard Nixon proposed the establishment of EPA on July 9, 1970; it began operation on December 2, 1970, after Nixon signed an executive order . [ 3 ]

  3. SubTropolis - Wikipedia

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    The interior of SubTropolis. SubTropolis is a business complex located inside of a 55,000,000-square-foot (5,100,000 m 2), 1,260-acre (5.1 km 2) mine in the bluffs north of the Missouri River in Kansas City, Missouri, United States.

  4. List of Superfund sites in Missouri - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of Superfund sites in Missouri designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law. The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contaminations. [1]

  5. Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1970 - Wikipedia

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    Reorganization Plan No. 3 was a United States presidential directive establishing the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), effective December 2, 1970. [1] The order, published in the Federal Register on October 6, 1970, consolidated components from different federal agencies to form the EPA, "a strong, independent agency " that would ...

  6. Environmental history of the United States - Wikipedia

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    "Conservation" originated in the late 19th century as a movement built around the conservation of natural resources and an attempt to stave off air, water, and land pollution. By the 1970s environmentalism evolved into a much more sophisticated control regime, one that employed the Environmental Protection Agency to slow environmental degradation.

  7. Missouri American Water Partners with EPA and Community ... - AOL

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    LOUIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Missouri American Water has partnered with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to promote the fifth annual Fix a Leak Week, which runs from March 18-24. The ...

  8. Federal appeals court halts EPA effort to impose air ... - AOL

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    A federal appeals court has put on hold an Environmental Protection Agency regulation aimed at reducing air pollution in Missouri, drawing criticism from environmentalists but praise from the ...

  9. Missouri battery maker EnerSys to pay $430K fee after EPA ...

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    The United Stated Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has reached a settlement with a Missouri battery manufacturer with facilities in Springfield after alleged violations of the federal Clean ...