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AP U.S. Government 2.4 Institutions of National Government. Under which executive department does the Environmental Protection Agency fall?
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Thank you We sneak and here's your shmoop du jour
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brought to you by the environmental protection agency advocates for
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safe plant reproductive practices All right under which executive department
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does the environmental protection agency fall All right And here
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the potential answers All right here we go President nixon
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created the environmental protection agency in nineteen seventy with the
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goal of writing laws that would protect both human health
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as well as that of the environment Let's See which
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of these executive departments holds the keys to the forests
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oceans rivers and skies Oh and that's not being eaten
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from the inside by crazy toxic sludge too That would
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be nice Right Well does the environmental protection agency fall
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under the department of the interior Well the department of
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the interior doesn't handle the interior design for the white
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house And it's actually tasked with conserving federal land for
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managing natural resource is and administering the national park system
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So they protect the land which is great but they're
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not responsible for protecting us from the people who harm
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the land and would been harm Well let's just move
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on Could the environmental protection agency be managed by the
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b department of commerce Well the department of commerce focuses
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on sustainable growth shore But for the economy not the
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environment So not be Does the fall under the sea
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department of energy Well jimmy carter created the department of
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energy in nineteen Seventy seven for two major reasons One
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to help consolidate energy policy in the wake of the
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nineteen seventy three oil crisis and two to have one
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government agency responsible for all the nuclear materials within our
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borders So they do some pretty energetic stuff over there
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but none of it gets to the nucleus of what's
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happening with the what about the the department of transportation
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Well huh Department transportation deals with trains planes and automobiles
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in the us but that's regulation of a different nature
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which means that the environmental protection agency falls under e
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none of the above Thie is an independent executive agency
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making it a freestanding group within the executive brand That
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means it's not actually a part of any other cabinet
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department So he's the correct answer Even though the isn't
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technically a cabinet department the head of the epa usually
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gets a seat in the cabinet anyway Sounds like everything's 00:02:29.34 --> [endTime] well woodworking in their favor
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