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Rachel Carson has done some very amazing things for the environment like she helped pass the Clean Air and Clean Water act. But those are only some of the few things she has done.

Rachel has accomplished many things in her lifetime. She has helped pass the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, and the Endangered Species Act. She won the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and she formed the Environmental Protection Agency to enforce controls on land use. Her book __Silent Spring__ changed the way we view our environment and it also brought results such as, DDT and other related chemicals are banned almost completely in the US, Canada and other places too.
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She has done many different jobs in her lifetime. She joined the US Department of Fish and Wild Life in 1936 and she worked as an aquatic biologist until 1952. She even wrote a radio show called “Romance under the Waters.” She also wrote books about the sea, nature, and the dangers of pesticides. She also was a teacher at the University of Maryland.
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Rachel Carson graduated from Pennsylvania College for Women in 1929. She earned her Master’s degree on zoology from John Hopkins the year her dad died.
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She wrote many books about nature and the dangers of pesticides. The first book she wrote was in 1941 called “//Under the Sea Wind.” and// it was about ocean life. She wrote “//The Sea Around Us”// in 1951 and ”//The edge of the sea”// in 1955 both about aquatic life. The last book she wrote was //“The Silent Spring”// in 1962, two years before she died. It was her most famous book because of the things it did for the environment and the world.
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Rachel Carson was passionate about the environment and worked hard to educate the world on how to protect it. She was born in Springdale, Pennsylvania on May 27, 1907, and she died of cancer on April 14, 1964 in Silver spring, Maryland when she was only 57. She was never married and her father died the year she got her Master’s Degree. Her mother introduced her to nature when she was very young. She was the youngest of 3 children.
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