The Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 empowers the _________ to establish authorities charged with the mandate of preventing environmental pollution in all its forms.

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- The Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 is a central legislation enacted by Parliament to provide for the protection and improvement of the environment.
- The Act vests powers in the Central Government to take measures for environmental protection. Specifically, $Section\ 3$ empowers the Central Government to take such steps as it considers necessary for the purpose of protecting and improving the quality of the environment and preventing, controlling and abating environmental pollution.
- These powers include issuing directions and establishing authorities or delegating functions to authorities charged with preventing environmental pollution in all its forms. Thus the body empowered under the Act to establish such authorities is the Central Government.

Therefore the correct option is (2) Central Government, i.e. option (b).

FINAL_ANSWER: b

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