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Which event significantly impacted the passage of the Superfund Act in 1981?

a. Gulf Oil Spill
b. Three Mile Island
c. Love Canal
d. founding of Yellowstone

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It was the Love Canal tragedy that significantly impacted the passage of the Superfund Act in 1981, since prior to this there was no collectivized way to go about cleaning up these kinds of disasters at a federal level. 
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