March 31, 2015. Some TV networks offer blind captioning on surround sound shows to help those with impaired vision. This involves mixing the soundtrack with audio narration and vocal descriptions of the on-screen action so the blind can experience the program.
The federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was created on December 2, 1970, by executive order of President Richard Nixon to permit coordinated and effective government action on behalf of the environment..
Nixon recognized that such federal legislation needed the attention of an exclusive agency. By the summer of 1970, he submitted Reorganization Plan Number Three to Congress, which called for a single entity to govern the United States' environmental policy [ EPA ].The EPA inherited environmental charges that had been arbitrarily assigned to other governmental departments.ith the reassignment of environmental programs and the formation of a comprehensive agency to deal with them, the U.S. was well on its way to effective environmental policy. In the next section, we'll learn about some well-known EPA programs.