together to establish the Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) in response to the growing public demand for cleaner
water, air and land. Prior the establishment of 【S1】______
the EPA, the federal government is not structured to make 【S2】______
a coordinated attack on the pollutants that harm human health
and degrade the environment. The EPA was assigning the task 【S3】______
of repairing the damage already done to the natural environ
ment and to establish new criteria to guide Americans in making
a cleaner environment a reality.
Bom in the awake of elevated concern about environmental 【S4】______
mental pollution, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
opened its doors in downtown Washington, D.C., on December 2,
1970. EPA was established to consolidate in one agency the variety 【S5】______
of federal research, monitoring, standard-setting and
enforcement activity to ensure environmental protection. 【S6】______
EPA's mission is to protect human health and to safeguard
the naturally environment-air, water, and land-upon 【S7】______
which life depend. For more than 30 years, the EPA 【S8】______
has been working for a cleaner, healthier environment for the
American people.
From regulating auto emissions to ban the use of 【S9】______
DDT; from cleaning up toxic waste to protecting the ozone
layer; from increasing recycling to revitalizing inner-city brown-
fields, EPA's achievements have resulted in cleaner alr, purer
water, and well protected land. 【S10】______
【S1】