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    The Air Pollution Control Act of 1955 (Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 84–159, ch. 360, 69 Stat. 322) was the first U.S. federal law to address...
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    The Clean Air Act (CAA) is the United States' primary federal air quality law, intended to reduce and control air pollution nationwide. Initially enacted...
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  • the State of California enacted the Air Pollution Control Act that authorized the creation of Air Pollution Control Districts (APCD) or Air Quality Management...
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    measures to reduce air pollution. Primary among them was mandated movement toward smokeless fuels, especially in high-population "smoke control areas" to reduce...
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  • Pollution and Abatement Act of 1972 is a statute of the United States initiating a federal program of regulating noise pollution with the intent of protecting...
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    some of the early pollution and climate change research, as well as early climate change legislation including the Air Pollution Control Act of 1955. "The...
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    Berlin Declaration (1945) (category Allied occupation of Germany)
    condominium of the four Allied Representative Powers on behalf of the Allied Governments overall, an authority later constituted into the Allied Control Council...
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    of Pollution) Cess Act, 1977 The Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980 The Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981 Air (Prevention and Control of...
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    the United States is the U.S. Clean Air Act. The law was initially enacted as the Air Pollution Control Act of 1955. Amendments in 1967 and 1970 (the framework...
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    form when completely rewritten in 1972 in an act entitled the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972. Major changes have subsequently been...
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  • Control District created; first air pollution agency in the US. 1948 – Federal Water Pollution Control Act 1955 – National Air Pollution Control Act 1959...
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    Mobile source air pollution includes any air pollution emitted by motor vehicles, airplanes, locomotives, and other engines and equipment that can be moved...
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  • of 'their' party, after all. Good Americans belong to the Republican Party, it would seem. Voting for Eisenhower is presented here as a patriotic act...
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  • of the Air Pollution Control Act of 1955, encouraging the federal government via the United States Public Health Service under the then-Department of...
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  • Anne Eisenhower (category Debutantes of the International Debutante Ball)
    Eduardo Mendoza de la Torre, the ex Vice Minister of Justice in Colombia and later a Vice President of Avianca Airlines, who was the only man to have ever...
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    presidential library and museum of Dwight David Eisenhower, the 34th president of the United States (1953–1961), located in his hometown of Abilene, Kansas. The...
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    Kay Summersby (category Recipients of the Legion of Merit)
    23 November 1908 – 20 January 1975), known as Kay Summersby, was a member of the British Mechanised Transport Corps during World War II, who served as...
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    Oil Pollution Act of 1924 is a United States federal statute establishing regulations for coastal navigable waters with regards to intentional fossil fuel...
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    the Energy Future Coalition, the US Chamber of Commerce's new Institute for 21st Century Energy, and the Air Force Academy's Eisenhower Center for Space...
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    the federal Clean Air Act and the state Air Pollution Control Act (1954) are the most significant pieces of air pollution control legislation. These...
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    Commonwealth advance. On 22 February, once clear of the Reichswald, and with the towns of Kleve and Goch in their control, the offensive was renewed as Operation...
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    President's Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition (category Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health)
    people of all ages, backgrounds, and abilities to lead active, healthy lives." It is part of the Office of Public Health and Science, an agency of the United...
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    common air pollution problem. Air pollution Air quality index Asthma Atmospheric dispersion modeling Contamination control Clean Air Act (1990) Portable...
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    Earl D. Eisenhower (category University of Washington College of Engineering alumni)
    American electrical engineer and legislator, as well as the younger brother of U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Born in Abilene, Kansas, his brothers...
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  • European Advisory Commission (category Politics of World War II)
    Partition of Germany into three occupied zones, each controlled by one power. Creation of the Allied Control Council (ACC) The ACC could only act in consensus...
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  • are multiple laws known as the Flood Control Act (FCA). Typically, they are enacted to control irrigation because of floods or other natural disasters and...
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    The Oil Pollution Act of 1973 or Oil Pollution Act Amendments of 1973, 33 U.S.C. Chapter 20 §§ 1001-1011, was a United States federal law which amended...
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    Mary Jean Eisenhower (category 1955 births)
    (born December 21, 1955) is an American humanitarian. She is the chairman emeritus (and former president and chief executive officer) of People to People...
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  • Thumbnail for Alkali Act 1863
    Act became the main legislative control of industrial pollution in the UK. It was finally repealed and replaced by the Environmental Protection Act 1990...
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  • The Atoms for Peace Award was established in 1955 through a grant of $1,000,000 by the Ford Motor Company Fund. An independent nonprofit corporation was...
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