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Definition: Environmental Protection Agency |
Environmental Protection AgencyNoun1. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Agriculture | An independent federal government agency established in 1970 and charged with coordinating effective governmental action concerning the environment, including setting standards, promulgating and enforcing regulations, and initiating and implementing environmental programs. Two areas of jurisdiction that most directly affect agricultural production are the registration of pesticides and implementation of the Clean Water Act. (EPA). (references) |
Economics | (USA) An independent agency in the executive branch whose mandate is to control and abate pollution in the areas of air, water, solid waste, pesticides, radiation, and toxic substances. (EPA). (references) |
Energy | A federal agency created in1970 to permit coordinated governmental action for protection of the environmentby systematic abatement and control of pollution through integration or research,monitoring, standards setting and enforcement activities. (EPA). (references) |
Environment | The federal agency responsible for regulating air quality. See also EPA web site. (references) |
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Synonym: Environmental Protection AgencySynonym: EPA (n). (additional references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Clean air is a product of the United States Environmental Protection Agency.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Health | A. The federal agency responsible for pesticide evaluation is the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). (references) | |
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has been charged with estimating the effects on health associated with changes in stratospheric ozone levels. (references) | ||
DEET can be used safely on children and adults but should be applied according to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) guidelines to reduce the possibility of toxicity. (references) | ||
Business | The government body giving licenses is the Naturvardsverket, the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency. (references) | |
The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency is the central administrative agency for environment protection and nature conservancy. (references) | ||
To build a destruction plant, approval from the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency must be obtained as well as for the export of waste from Sweden to other countries. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Taiwan | During the year, the ship's master and the chief engineer of the Greek cargo vessel M/V Amorgos were prevented from leaving the island for 8 months while the Environmental Protection Agency negotiated with the shipping company's agent on compensation for damages caused by an oil spill when the ship ran aground off the coast of southern Taiwan on January 14. They were allowed to depart the island in August. (references) |
Economic History | Pakistan | The Pakistan Environmental Protection Agency (PEPA) is responsible for enforcing the laws related to the protection of the environment. (references) |
Ireland | Potential investors are also required to examine the environmental impact of the proposed project and to meet with Irish Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officials. (references) | |
Human Rights | Guatemala | There was little progress in the investigation of the February 2000 murders of Erwin Haroldo Ochoa Lopez and Julio Armando Vasquez, two environmentalists working for the National Council for Protected Areas, a governmental environmental protection agency. (references) |
Political Economy | Guyana | To oversee the protection of these natural resources, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officially opened operations on June 5, 1996. The Agency mandate is to develop regulations which should have a comprehensive impact on business in Guyana. (references) |
Trade | Thailand | The United States-Asia Environmental Partnership (US-AEP) is a public-private, inter-agency program that promotes environmentally sound economic growth in Asia by mobilizing American technologies, services and experience . The partnership is led and funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and includes the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Department of Commerce, nongovernmental organizations, environmental technology associations, grant-making bodies, and private contractors responsible for the following US-AEP programs: the Environmental Exchange Program, Clean Technology and Environmental Management, Technology Transfer and The Policy Group. (references) |
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Rush Limbaugh | Richard Nixon conceived the Environmental Protection Agency, folks. |
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George Bush | 1989-1993 | As just one sign of how serious we are, we will elevate the Environmental Protection Agency to Cabinet rank. |
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Expression using "Environmental Protection Agency": United States Environmental Protection Agency. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
environmental protection agency | 708 |
us environmental protection agency | 46 |
environmental protection agency job | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "Environmental Protection Agency"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | Environmental Protection Agency. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | Environmental Protection Agency, Bureau voor Milieubescherming. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Environmental Protection Agency. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | Οργανισμός ροστασίας εριβάλλοντος. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | environmentalay otectionpray agencyay agência de proteção ambiental. (various references) común de protección ambiental. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 6E 76 69 72 6F 6E 6D 65 6E 74 61 6C 50 72 6F 74 65 63 74 69 6F 6E 41 67 65 6E 63 79 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01101110 01110110 01101001 01110010 01101111 01101110 01101101 01100101 01101110 01110100 01100001 01101100 00100000 01010000 01110010 01101111 01110100 01100101 01100011 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 00100000 01000001 01100111 01100101 01101110 01100011 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E n v i r o n m e n t a l   P r o t e c t i o n   A g e n c y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 006E 0076 0069 0072 006F 006E 006D 0065 006E 0074 0061 006C 0050 0072 006F 0074 0065 0063 0074 0069 006F 006E 0041 0067 0065 006E 0063 0079 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)398088758481807971808667782508481867169867581802357371806991 |
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