1. Environmental Laws 1940-1965 Jason P

2. Why you should care

3. 1940 - U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service created to study the decline of fish

4. 1947 - FIFRA Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, prevents the abuse of things that kill pests

5. 1956 - Water Pollution Control Act Water Pollution Control Act gives grants to states to create water treatment plants

6. 1957 - Price-Anderson Act The Price-Anderson Act governs liability for non military nuclear facilities in the US - Basically says the nuclear facilities are not liable for incidents

7. 1962 – Rachel Carson and Silent Spring Carson alerts the public to the harmful effects of pesticides

8. 1965 – Land and Water Conservation Act Gave the man funds and the right to acquire lakes and land

9. References Wikipedia – www.wikipedia.org (all the information that I got from here was checked up on)www.wikipedia.org FWS – www.fws.govwww.fws.gov EPA - www.epa.govwww.epa.gov