Relacionar Columnas America's Green PresidentsVersión en línea Test your environmental and presidential knowledge! Match each president with his environmental accomplishments. por Devin Walker 1 Barack Obama 2 Franklin Delano Roosevelt 3 Richard Nixon 4 Thomas Jefferson 5 Jimmy Carter 6 Teddy Roosevelt 7 Lyndon B. Johnson Created the Civilian Conservation Corps which plants billions of trees, built hiking trails, restored streams and constructed approximately 800 parks across the US. Signed the Paris Climate Agreement, created the Clean Power Plan and raised fuel-efficiency standards. Creation of the federal Environmental Protection Agency and signing of the Clean Air Act, Marine Mammal Protection Act, Safe Drinking Water Act of 1974 and the Endangered Species Act of 1973. Spoke of conserving trees and "never cutting down new, where we can make the old do." Also responsible for the Lewis and Clark expedition. Responsible for the creation of the Wilderness Act of 1964, the Endangered Species Preservation Act of 1966, the National Trails System Act of 1968 and the Land and Water Conservation Act of 1965. Greatly supported energy conservation. He established a national energy policy, created the Department of Energy and put solar panels on the roof of the White House. He also credited with expanding the national parks system and protecting swaths of land in Alaska. Established the US Forest Service and preserved approximately 190 million acres of forests, parks, monuments, and wildlife refuges.
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