... had financing to clean up these waste sites as well as pursue the parties responsible through legal means [Kline, 109]. Near the end of the 80's the issue of air pollution began to rise to the forefront. Unlike the population of Easter Island and the Mayan civilization, the American public wanted to act well before it was too late. A 1990 survey ... amendments to the Clean Air Act, further strengthening standards, as well as to begin a multibillion-dollar cleanup of nuclear weapons facilities and power plants that had been contaminating soil and ground water for years. The time period f...

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