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| citizens used the Clean water Act to stop Bethlehem Steel from discharging to much pollutants into the Chesapeake bay. |
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| Stopping the Deleware River Pollution |
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| Used the Clean water Act to sue Texaco for realeasing tons of oil, grease, and other toxic pollutants into the Delaware river. paid a fine and had to clean it up. |
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| environmental organizations and native americans sued U.S department of energy for violation of the Nuclear waste policy Act because they said that they illegally reclassified high-level waste into a less dangerous category so that it could be disposed of more quickly and cheaply. tanks were laking and could endanger ground and surface water supplies. |
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| Drinking water protection |
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| State of Nevada and other environmental groups sued the EPA for violating the the safe drinking water act because the U.S government plans to put a depository for nuclear waste at the Yucca mountian and it could leak into groundwater supplies used for drinking and irrigation. still not decided. |
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| cleaning up mercury pollution |
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| Maine citizens and an environmental group sued a chemical plant for polluting the Penobscot Riverwith mercury that is harmful to humans and animals. this violated the resource conservation and recovery act.They must clean it up. |
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| Environmental group force the EPA to follow the Clean Air Act to come up with a plan to reduce ground-level ozone concentrations in Houston and Galveston,Texas because they exceeded the ozone standards. |
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| In Massachusetts the EPA denied the permit to build a shopping mall on wetlands because they could have used a different site so they wouldn't destroy them. They won and protected the wetlands. |
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| Protecting endangered species |
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| The endangered species act temporarily stopped the costruction of a dam on the little tennessee river because they discovered a rare fish (the snail darter) that was endangered, in only a small portion of the river so they had to protect them. They still built the dam but moved the fish to a nearby river so they would survive. |
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