; or (C) the expertise of the public health, physical activity, nutrition and health care (including child health), urban planning, and transportation research communities in the United States and abroad. 1007. Environment and public health restoration (a) Findings (1) General findings The Congress finds as follows: (A) As human beings, we share our environment with a wide variety of habitats and ecosystems that nurture and sustain a diversity of species. (B) The abundance of natural resources in our environment forms the basis for our economy and has greatly contributed to human development throughout history. (C) The accelerated pace of human development over the last several hundred years has significantly impacted our natural environment and its resources, the health and diversity of plant and animal wildlife, the availability of critical habitats, the quality of our air and our water, and our global climate. (D) The intervention of the Federal Government is necessary to minimize and mitigate human impact on the environment for the benefit of public health, to maintain air quality and water quality, to sustain the diversity of plants and animals, to combat global climate change, and to protect the environment. (E) Laws and regulations in the United States have been created and promulgated to minimize and mitigate human impact on the environment for the benefit of public health, to maintain air quality and water quality, to sustain wildlife, and to protect the environment. (F) Such laws include the Antiquities Act of 1906 ( 16 U.S.C. 431 et seq.) initiated by President Theodore Roosevelt to create the national park system, the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 ( 42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), the Clean Air Act ( 42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.), the Federal Water Pollution Control Act ( 33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.), the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 ( 42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq.), the Endangered Species Act of 1973 ( Public Law 93–205 ), and the National Forest Management Act of