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What is Earth Day all about?
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What Wisconsin senator is credited with promoting Earth Day as a national event?
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Bernie Sanders
Gaylord Nelson
Strom Thurmond
Hubert Humphrey
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What environmental laws were passed under the Nixon administration, in part due to the Earth Day movement of April 22, 1970?
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Endangered Species Act
The Clean Air Act
The Clean Water Act
All of the above
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What 1962 Rachel Carson book about the effects of pesticides is often cited as the beginning of the modern environmental movement in the U.S.?
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The Sea Around Us
Silent Spring
The Sense of Wonder
The Edge of the Sea
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What government regulatory agency was established on December 2, 1970?
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The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
US Department of Energy (US DOE)
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ)
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The Earth Day Network, the organizers of the original Earth Day, considers that what issue represents the biggest challenge to the future?
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Plastics in the ocean
Habitat loss and extinction
Overpopulation
Climate action
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