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| 7125171632 | Clean Air Act | is the comprehensive federal law that regulates air emissions from stationary and mobile sources. | 0 | |
| 7125171633 | Clean Water Acts | establishes the basic structure for regulating discharges of pollutants into the waters of the United States and regulating quality standards for surface waters | 1 | |
| 7125171634 | Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation Liability Act | provides a Federal "Superfund" to clean up uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous-waste sites as well as accidents, spills, and other emergency releases of pollutants and contaminants into the environment. | 2 | |
| 7125171635 | Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species Act | is an international agreement between governments. Its aim is to ensure that international trade in specimens of wild animals and plants does not threaten their survival. | 3 | |
| 7125171636 | Endangered Species Act | provides a program for the conservation of threatened and endangered plants and animals and the habitats in which they are found. | 4 | |
| 7125171637 | Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act | authorizes EPA to set tolerances, or maximum residue limits, for pesticide residues on foods. Once a tolerance is established, the residue level in the tolerance is the trigger for enforcement actions. That is, if residues are found above that level, the commodity will be subject to seizure. | 5 | |
| 7125171638 | Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act | provides for federal regulation of pesticide distribution, sale, and use. All pesticides distributed or sold in the United States must be registered (licensed) by EPA. Before EPA may register a pesticide under FIFRA, the applicant must show, among other things, that using the pesticide according to specifications "will not generally cause unreasonable adverse effects on the environment.'' | 6 | |
| 7125171639 | Federal Water Pollution Control Act | was what the Clean water Act was initially referred to as. is the principle law governing pollution control and water quality of the Nation's waterways. The object of the CWA is to restore and maintain the chemical, physical and biological integrity of the Nation's waters | 7 | |
| 7125171640 | Fish and Wildlife Conservation Act | approved September 29, 1980, authorizes financial and technical assistance to the States for the development, revision, and implementation of conservation plans and programs for nongame fish and wildlife. | 8 | |
| 7125171641 | Kyoto Protocol | is an international agreement struck by 159 nations attending the Third Conference of Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (held in December of 1997 in Kyoto, Japan) to reduce worldwide emissions of greenhouse gases. | 9 | |
| 7125171642 | Law of the Sea Convention | is the international agreement that resulted from the third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS III), which took place between 1973 and 1982. The Law of the Sea Convention defines the rights and responsibilities of nations with respect to their use of the world's oceans, establishing guidelines for businesses, the environment, and the management of marine natural resources. | 10 | |
| 7125171643 | Marine Plastic Pollution Research and Control Act | applies to ship-generated garbage, and it aims to reduce the amount of garbage—both plastics and other persistent wastes—that ships dump into the oceans. It also prohibits all ships from dumping plastics into the sea. | 11 | |
| 7125171644 | Montreal Protocol | is the international treaty governing the protection of stratospheric ozone. The Montreal Protocol on Substances That Deplete the Ozone Layer and its amendments control the phaseout of ODS production and use. Under the Montreal Protocol, several international organizations report on the science of ozone depletion, implement projects to help move away from ODS, and provide a forum for policy discussions. | 12 | |
| 7125171645 | National Environmental Policy Act | requires federal agencies to assess the environmental effects of their proposed actions prior to making decisions.Using the NEPA process, agencies evaluate the environmental and related social and economic effects of their proposed actions. Agencies also provide opportunities for public review and comment on those evaluations. | 13 | |
| 7125171646 | Nuclear Waste Policy Act | supports the use of deep geologic repositories for the safe storage and/or disposal of radioactive waste. The Act establishes procedures to evaluate and select sites for geologic repositories and for the interaction of state and federal governments. | 14 | |
| 7125171647 | Ocean Dumping Ban Act | prohibits all municipal sewage sludge and industrial waste dumping into the ocean after December 31, 1991. | 15 | |
| 7125171648 | Oil Pollution Act | streamlined and strengthened EPA's ability to prevent and respond to catastrophic oil spills. A trust fund financed by a tax on oil is available to clean up spills when the responsible party is incapable or unwilling to do so. | 16 | |
| 7125171649 | Pollution Prevention Act | focused industry, government, and public attention on reducing the amount of pollution through cost-effective changes in production, operation, and raw materials use. Opportunities for source reduction are often not realized because of existing regulations, and the industrial resources required for compliance, focus on treatment and disposal. | 17 | |
| 7125171650 | Resource Conservation and Recovery Act | was enacted by Congress in 1976 to address the huge volumes of municipal and industrial solid waste generated nationwide. This Act provides broad guidelines for the establishment of a national waste management program. | 18 | |
| 7125171651 | Safe Drinking Water Act | is the main federal law that ensures the quality of Americans' drinking water.Under SDWA, EPA sets standards for drinking water quality and oversees the states, localities, and water suppliers who implement those standards. | 19 | |
| 7125171652 | Soil and Water Protection Act | provides the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) broad strategic assessment and planning authority for the conservation, protection, and enhancement of soil, water, and related natural resources. | 20 | |
| 7125171653 | Solid Waste Disposal Act | was the first federal law that required environmentally sound methods for disposal of household, municipal, commercial, and industrial waste | 21 | |
| 7125171654 | Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act | is the primary federal law that regulates the environmental effects of coal mining in the United States. SMCRA created two programs: one for regulating active coal mines and a second for reclaiming abandoned mine lands. | 22 | |
| 7125171655 | Toxic Substances Control Act | provides EPA with authority to require reporting, record-keeping and testing requirements, and restrictions relating to chemical substances and/or mixtures. Certain substances are generally excluded from TSCA, including, among others, food, drugs, cosmetics and pesticides. | 23 |
