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Yellowstone National Park Protection Act

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TheYellowstone National Park Protection Actwas alawpassed by the 42nd US Congress and signed into law byPresident Ulysses S. Granton March 1, 1872, creatingYellowstone National Park.^[1]Yellowstone was the first national park in the US and is considered to be the first national park in the world.^[2]

Yellowstone National Park Protection Act

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Yellowstone National Park Protection Act

References

^"Act Establishing Yellowstone National Park (1872)".National Archives.February 8, 2022.Archivedfrom the original on May 23, 2022.RetrievedMay 23,2022.
^"Birth of a National Park".National Park Service.February 5, 2020.Archivedfrom the original on May 19, 2022.RetrievedMay 23,2022.

Ulysses S. Grant

18th President of the United States(1869–1877)

Military career

First inauguration
Second inauguration
Scandals
- Grantism
Pardons
Cabinet
Judicial appointments
State of the Union addresses
- 1869
- 1870
- 1871
- 1872
- 1873
- 1874
- 1875
- 1876

Foreign policy	Treaty of Washington AlabamaClaims Korean Expedition Annexation of Santo Domingo
Economic policy	Public Credit Act of 1869 Copyright Act of 1870 Currency Act of 1870 Funding Act of 1870 General Mining Act of 1872 Timber Culture Act Specie Payment Resumption Act Desert Land Act
Government reforms	Judiciary Act of 1869 U.S. Department of Justice District of Columbia Organic Act of 1871 Civil Service Commission Yellowstone National Park Protection Act Yellowstone National Park Post Office Act Electoral Commission Act
Social policy	Reconstruction Amnesty Act Native American policy "Peace Policy" Modoc War Great Sioux War Indian Appropriations Act of 1871 Enforcement Acts Enforcement Act of 1870 Second Enforcement Act Ku Klux Klan Act Naturalization Act of 1870 Comstock Act Poland Act Civil Rights Act of 1875 Page Act of 1875

Post-presidency

Books

Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

Life

Elections

Bibliography

Memorials	Grant Memorial Presidential library Grant Park General Grantship General Grant tree grove Grant Cottage State Historic Site The Peacemakers U.S. Capitol statue Brooklyn relief Chicago statue Ohio Statehouse statue Philadelphia statue San Francisco bust U.S. Postage stamps Currency $50 bill 1922 Grant Memorial coinage Grant High School U.S. Grant Hotel
Cultural depictions	Ulysses S. Grant(2002 documentary) Grant(2020 miniseries)

← Andrew Johnson
Rutherford B. Hayes →

Category

United States environmental law

Supreme Court
decisions

Missouri v. Holland(1920)
Sierra Club v. Morton(1972)
Vermont Yankee v. NRDC(1978)
Hughes v. Oklahoma(1979)
Lujan v. National Wildlife Federation(1990)
Friends of the Earth v. Laidlaw Environmental Services(2000)
BP P.L.C. v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore(2021)

NEPAcases	United States v. SCRAP(1973) Metropolitan Edison Co. v. People Against Nuclear Energy(1983) Baltimore Gas & Electric Co. v. Natural Resources Defense Council(1983) Department of Transportation v. Public Citizen(2004) Norton v. Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance(2004) Winter v. Natural Resources Defense Council(2008) Monsanto Co. v. Geertson Seed Farms(2010)
CAAcases	Train v. Natural Resources Defense Council(1975) Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council(1984) Whitman v. American Trucking Associations(2001) Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation v. EPA(2004) Department of Transportation v. Public Citizen(2004) Massachusetts v. EPA(2007) Environmental Defense v. Duke Energy Corp.(2007) American Electric Power Co. v. Connecticut(2011) Utility Air Regulatory Group v. EPA(2014) Michigan v. EPA(2015) HollyFrontier Cheyenne Refining v. Renewable Fuels Association(2021) West Virginia v. EPA(2022)
RCRAcases	City of Philadelphia v. New Jersey(1978) Southern Union Co. v. United States(2012)
ESAcases	Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill(1978) Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife(1992) Babbitt v. Sweet Home Chapter of Communities for a Great Oregon(1995) National Association of Home Builders v. Defenders of Wildlife(2007) Weyerhaeuser Company v. United States Fish and Wildlife Service(2018) United States Fish and Wildlife Service v. Sierra Club(2021)
CWAcases	United States v. Riverside Bayview(1985) SWANCC v. Army Corps of Engineers(2001) South Florida Water Management District v. Miccosukee Tribe(2004) S. D. Warren Co. v. Maine Board of Environmental Protection(2006) Rapanos v. United States(2006) National Association of Home Builders v. Defenders of Wildlife(2007) Entergy Corp. v. Riverkeeper Inc.(2009) Coeur Alaska, Inc. v. Southeast Alaska Conservation Council(2009) Sackett v. EPA I(2012) Los Angeles County Flood Control District v. Natural Resources Defense Council(2013) Army Corps of Engineers v. Hawkes Co.(2016) National Association of Manufacturers v. Department of Defense(2018) County of Maui v. Hawaii Wildlife Fund(2020) Sackett v. EPA II(2023)
CERCLAcases	United States v. Bestfoods(1998) Guam v. United States(2021)

Major
federal legislation,
treaties,
and lower court
decisions

Yellowstone National Park Protection Act(1872)
Forest Service Organic Administration Act(1897)
Rivers and Harbors Act(1899)
- Refuse Act
Lacey Act(1900)
Weeks Act(1911)
North Pacific Fur Seal Convention of 1911(1911)
Weeks–McLean Act(1913)
Migratory Bird Treaty Act(1918)
Clarke–McNary Act(1924)
Oil Pollution Act(1924)
McSweeney-McNary Act(1928)
Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act(1934)
Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act(1954)
Air Pollution Control Act(1955)
Fish and Wildlife Act(1956)
Oil Pollution Act(1961)
Clean Air Act(1963, 1970, 1977, 1990)
- Acid Rain Program
Scenic Hudson Preservation Conference v. Federal Power Commission(2nd Cir. Court of Appeals, 1965)
Solid Waste Disposal Act(1965)
Endangered Species Act(1969)
Environmental Quality Improvement Act(1970)
National Environmental Policy Act(1970)
Clean Water Act(1972, 1977, 1987, 2014)
Coastal Zone Management Act(1972)
- Coastal Zone Management Program
Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act(1972)
Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act(1972)
Noise Control Act(1972)
Endangered Species Act(1973)
Oil Pollution Act(1973)
Safe Drinking Water Act(1974, 1986, 1996)
Water Resources Development Act(1974,1976,1986,1988,1990,1992,1996,1999,2000,2007,2014, 2016, 2022)
Federal Noxious Weed Act(1975)
Hazardous Materials Transportation Act(1975)
Magnuson–Stevens Act(1976)
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act(1976)
Toxic Substances Control Act(1976)
Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act(1977)
Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act(1978)
CERCLA (Superfund)(1980)
Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act(1986)
Emergency Wetlands Resources Act(1986)
Global Change Research Act(1990)
National Environmental Education Act(1990)
Oil Pollution Act(1990)
Alien Species Prevention and Enforcement Act of 1992
Food Quality Protection Act(1996)
Energy Policy Act(2005)
Energy Independence and Security Act(2007)
Coalition for Responsible Regulation, Inc. v. EPA(D.C. Cir. Court of Appeals, 2012)
Lautenberg Chemical Safety Act(2016)
America's Water Infrastructure Act(2018)
Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act(2021)
Louisiana v. Biden(5th Cir. Court of Appeals, 2022)
CHIPS and Science Act(2022)
Inflation Reduction Act(2022)

Federal agencies

Regulations
and concepts

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United States federal public land legislation