By Elizabeth Kolbert The act that designated the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge was signed into law on December 2 , 1980 by President Jimmy Carter, just a few weeks before he left office.
Kevin Lunny, Drakes Bay Oyster Company's former proprietor believed that the success of his farm could overcome the 1964 Wilderness Act that designated wilderness as a place "untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain".
However, Cole failed in his arguments to overturn a few words in the Patriot Act that broadened "Material Support of Terrorism" to encompass "expert advice and assistance" to designated "foreign terrorist organizations".
His wife, Gu Kailai, is serving a life term in prison, officially designated a commuted death sentence, for murdering a British businessman, the act that catalyzed the unraveling of the Bo family.
The U.S. Clean Air Act designates hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) as those that "may reasonably be anticipated to be carcinogenic, mutagenic" (Clean Air Act Amendments 1990), and exhibit other adverse health effects.
It wasn't until after World War II that President Truman stepped in to use the Antiquities Act to designate the 1,200 acre Effigy Mounds National Monument.
Could he act without that?
Sixteen presidents have used the Antiquities Act to designate 157 monuments.
The New Towns Act 1946 designated Crawley as the site of one of these.
