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| 6541920513 | Basel Convention | Prevents shipment of hazardous waste from developed to developing countries unless developing country gives full permission to accept the hazardous waste (International) | 0 | |
| 6541920514 | Clean Air Act | Requires EPA to establish limits of pollutants that are harmful to "human health and welfare" (USA) | 1 | |
| 6541920515 | Clean Water Act | Supports the protection and propagation of wildlife and recreation in and on the water by maintaining and restoring the chemical, physical or biological properties of natural waters; issued water quality standards limiting certain pollutants (USA) | 2 | |
| 6541920516 | Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensations & Liability Act | Superfund; forces or implements cleanup of hazardous waste sites; prioritizes sites to be cleaned; taxes industry to create fund to clean up "orphaned" sites. (USA) | 3 | |
| 6541920517 | Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species | Controls and regulates international trade of threatened plants and animals (International) | 4 | |
| 6541920518 | Endangered Species Act | Authorizes US Fish & Wildlife Service to determine which species are endangered or threatened; prohibits harming of such species; authorizes government to purchase habitat (USA) | 5 | |
| 6541920519 | Federal Insecticide, Fungicide & Rodenticide Act | Regulates effectiveness of pesticides; requires testing and registration of active ingredients of pesticides; requires re-registration and testing of older pesticides (USA) | 6 | |
| 6541920520 | Food Drug & Cosmetics Act | Establishes acceptable levels of pesticides in food; bans cancer-causing substances in processed food (USA) | 7 | |
| 6541920521 | Food Quality Protection Act | established pesticide residue levels for raw produce and processed foods; requires testing for all health risks including endocrine disruptors; requires consideration of increased risk to infants and children (USA) | 8 | |
| 6541920522 | Food Security Act (Farm Bill) | Requires farmers with highly erodible land to develop a conservation plan that includes erosion-control measures; created Conservation Reserve Program to pay farmers to stop producing crops on erodible farmland (USA) | 9 | |
| 6541920523 | Kyoto Protocol | Nations committed to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases (International) | 10 | |
| 6541920524 | Low Level Radiation Waste Policy Act | Requires all states to have facilities to handle low-level radioactive wastes (USA) | 11 | |
| 6541920525 | Madrid Protocol | Created 50-year ban on mineral exploration and development in Antarctica (International) | 12 | |
| 6541920526 | MagnusonStevens Fishery Conservation & Management Act | Regulates marine fisheries; protects essential fish habitats; sets fishing quotas and seasons, limits on types of fishing gear and number of boats (USA) | 13 | |
| 6541920527 | Montreal Protocol | Nations committed to cut CFC production and phase out use of CFCs (International) | 14 | |
| 6541920528 | National Environmental Policy Act | Mandates environmental assessment of all projects involving federal money or federal permits; requires environmental impact statement before project begins (USA) | 15 | |
| 6541920529 | Oil Pollution Act | Establishes liability for damage to natural resources resulting from oil spills; creates fun to pay for cleanup; requires double hulls on oil tankers (USA) | 16 | |
| 6541920530 | Resource Conservation & Recovery Act | Governs tracking and disposal of solid and hazardous waste; controls hazardous waste with cradle-to-grave system requirements (USA) | 17 | |
| 6541920531 | Safe Drinking Water Act | EPA is responsible for setting maximum contaminant levels for substances in both surface water and groundwater (USA) | 18 | |
| 6541920532 | Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants | Produced a list of the "dirty dozen" chemicals (including endocrine disruptors) to be banned, phased out, or reduced; another 9 chemicals were added to the list in 2009 (International) | 19 | |
| 6541920533 | Surface Mining Control & Reclamation Act | Mandates that land be minimally disturbed during the mining process and reclaimed after mining is completed. (USA) | 20 | |
| 6541920534 | UN Convention on the Law of the Sea | Restricts seabed mining in international waters (International) | 21 |
