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| 4823812934 | Conservation | "Controlled Use", "Scientific Management" of natural resources. "Greatest good for the greatest number of people. | 0 | |
| 4823820920 | Preservation | Remaining wilderness areas on public lands should be left untouched | 1 | |
| 4823820921 | Restoration | To bring back to former condition (Former Natural State/.Condition), active restoration seeks to reestablish a diverse, dynamic community at sited that have been degraded. | 2 | |
| 4823821248 | Remediation | Most often used with cleanup of chemical contaminants in a polluted area. | 3 | |
| 4823822569 | Mitigation | Repairing/Rehabilitating a damaged ecosystem or compensation for damage, Most often by providing a substitute or replacement area; frequently involves wetland ecosystems. | 4 | |
| 4823825452 | Reclamation | Typically used to describe chemical or physical manipulations carried out in severely degraded sites, such as open-pit mines or large-scale construction | 5 | |
| 4823870649 | Lacey Act | A conservation law prohibiting the transportation of illegally captured or prohibited animals across state lines. Today the law is primarily used to prevent the importation or spread of potentially dangerous non-native species. | 6 | |
| 4823879097 | Taylor Grazing Act | A United States federal law that regulates grazing on federal public land. | 7 | |
| 4823889956 | Kyoto Protocol | Agreement among 150 nations requiring greenhouse gas emission reduction. | 8 | |
| 4823890112 | Wilderness Act | Allowed congress to set aside federally owned land for preservation. | 9 | |
| 4823935440 | National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) | Directs federal agencies to take environmental consequences into account in decision making; requires EIP statement be prepared for every major federal project having environmental impact. | 10 | |
| 4823947184 | International Environmental Protection Act (IEPA) | Authorized the president to assist countries in protecting and maintaining wildlife habitat and provides an active role in conservation by the Agency for International Development. | 11 | |
| 4823957565 | Federal Water Pollution Control Act | Authorized the surgeon general of the Public Health Service, with others, to prepare comprehensive programs for eliminating or reducing the pollution of interstate waters and tributaries and improving the sanitary condition of surface and underground waters. | 12 | |
| 4823960514 | Montreal Protocol | Banned the production of aerosols and initiated the phase out of all CFC's. | 13 | |
| 4823965906 | Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) | Controls the exploitation of endangered species through international legislation. Bans hunting, capturing and selling of threatened species and bans the import of ivory. | 14 | |
| 4823979830 | Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) | Created to protect worker and health. Its main aim was to ensure that employers provide their workers with an environment free from dangers to their safety and health, such as exposure to toxic chemicals, excessive noise levels, mechanical dangers, heat or cold stress, or unsanitary conditions. | 15 | |
| 4823993427 | National Park Act | The act gathered into a single system the fourteen national parks and twenty-one national monuments and created a National Park Service to manage that system. Created Yosemite and Yellowstone National Parks. | 16 | |
| 4824037821 | Toxic Substances Control Act | EPA is given the ability to track the 75,000 industrial chemicals currently produced or imported into the United States. EPA repeatedly screens these chemicals and can require reporting or testing of those that may pose an environmental or human-health hazard. EPA can ban the manufacture and import of those chemicals that pose an unreasonable risk. | 17 | |
| 4824434748 | Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation Liability Act (CERCLA Superfund) | Established federal authority for emergency response and clean-up of hazardous substances that have been spilled, improperly disposed, or released into the environment | 18 | |
| 4824479593 | Clean Air Act | Established primary and secondary air quality standards. Required states to develop implementation plans. Sets limits and goals to reduce mobile source air pollution and ambient air quality standards. | 19 | |
| 4824484509 | Hazardous Material Transportation Act (HAZMAT) | Governs the transportation of hazardous materials and wastes. | 20 | |
| 4824503602 | Oil Pollution Act | "A company cannot ship oil into the United States until it presents a plan to prevent spills that may occur. It must also have a detailed containment and cleanup plan in case of an oil spill emergency." | 21 | |
| 4824512915 | Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) | Management of non-hazardous and hazardous solid waste including landfills and storage tanks. Set minimal standards for all waste disposal facilities and for hazardous wastes. | 22 | |
| 4824515541 | Madrid Protocol | Moratorium on mineral exploration for 50 years in Antarctica | 23 | |
| 4824533033 | Endangered Species Act (ESA) | Protects species that are considered to be threatened or endangered. Includes migratory birds and their habitats. | 24 | |
| 4824535794 | Soil and Water Conservation Act | Provides for a continuing appraisal of US soil, water, and related resources, including fish and wildlife habitats, and a soil and water conservation program to assist landowners. | 25 | |
| 4824538686 | Consumer Product Safety Act | Purpose is to protect the public against unreasonable risks of injury associated with consumer products. | 26 | |
| 4824542676 | Clean Water Act | Used regulatory and non-regulatory tools to protect all surface waters in the U. S. Regulates and enforces all discharge into water sources and wetland destruction/construction. | 27 | |
| 4824544866 | Pollution Prevention Act | Requires facilities to reduce pollution at its source. Reduction can be in volume or toxicity. | 28 | |
| 4824573512 | Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp Act | Requires purchase of a stamp by waterfowl hunters. Revenue generated is used to acquire wetlands. Since its inception, the program has resulted in the protection of approximately 4.5 million acres (18,000 km²) of waterfowl habitat. | 29 | |
| 4824575697 | Emergency Planning & Community Right-To-Know Act | Requires reporting of toxic releases: the Toxic Release Inventory (TRI); Encourages response for chemical releases | 30 | |
| 4824578935 | Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act | Requires restoration of abandoned mines. | 31 | |
| 4824617777 | Wild and Scenic Rivers Act | Selected rivers in the United States are preserved for possessing outstandingly, remarkable scenic, recreational, geologic, fish and wildlife, historic, cultural, or other similar values. | 32 | |
| 4824620997 | Safe Drinking Water Act | The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is allowed to set the standards for drinking water quality and oversees all of the states, localities, and water suppliers who implement these standards | 33 | |
| 4824624294 | Solid Waste Disposal Act | To find better and more efficient ways to dispose of solid waste; promotes shredding and separation of waste and burning of remaining materials to produce stream or generate electricity; promotes recycling. | 34 | |
| 4824626715 | Mining Act of 1872 | United States federal law that authorizes and governs prospecting and mining for economic minerals, such as gold, platinum, and silver, on federal public lands. | 35 | |
| 7163994196 | Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) | Requires the EPA to approve the use of all pesticides in the United States. | 36 | |
| 7163999710 | Anadromous Fish Conservation Act | Protected fish that live in the sea but grow up and breed in fresh water. | 37 | |
| 7164008248 | Magnuson Fishery Conservation and Management Act | Governed the conservation and management of ocean fishing. | 38 | |
| 7181069204 | Mineral Leasing Act | Permitted the Bureau of Land Management to grant leases for development of deposits of coal, phosphate, potash, sodium, sulphur, and other leasable minerals on public lands. | 39 | |
| 7181137275 | Ocean Dumping Act | Made it unlawful for any person to dump, or transport for the purpose of dumping, sewage, sludge, or industrial waste into ocean waters. | 40 | |
| 7181181601 | Oil Spill Prevention and Liability Act | Strengthened EPA's ability to prevent and respond to catastrophic oil spills. Established a trust fund (Financed by a tax on oil), which is available to clean up spills. | 41 | |
| 7181205285 | Nuclear Waste Policy Act | Established both the Federal government's responsibility to provide a place for the permanent disposal of high-level radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel, and the generators' responsibility to bear the costs of permanent disposal. | 42 | |
| 7273763861 | Marine Mammal Protection Act | Established a federal responsibility to conserve marine mammals. | 43 |
