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| 4800536749 | Clean Air Act | Promote clean air, sets limits and goals to air pollutants | 0 | |
| 4800537577 | Clean Water Acts | Promote clean water, regulates and enforces all discharge into water sources and wetlands | 1 | |
| 4800537578 | Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation Liability Act | Forces the cleanup of hazardous waste sites, taxing chemical and petroleum industries for the funds. Gives federal government emergency power to clean any hazardous materials that have been spilled | 2 | |
| 4800539315 | Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species | International legislation between 175 countries that bans hunting, capturing and selling of threatened species and bans the import of ivory. It maintains a list of threatened species called the red list | 3 | |
| 4800541852 | Endangered Species Act | Protect species that are considered to be threatened or endangered, including migratory birds | 4 | |
| 4800542429 | Kyoto Protocol | Agreement among 150 nations requiring greenhouse gas emission reduction. | 5 | |
| 4803054463 | Lacey Act | Prohibits the transport of illegally captured game animals (birds and mammals) across state lines | 6 | |
| 4800542430 | Montreal Protocol | Banned the production of aerosols and initiated the phase out of all CFC's. | 7 | |
| 4800543138 | Resource Conservation and Recovery Act | Tracks all solid and hazardous waste cradle-to-grave (from generation to disposal), sets limits for hazardous materials in waste | 8 | |
| 4800543139 | 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 | 9 | |
| 4800543874 | Pollution Prevention Act | Requires facilities to reduce pollution at its source. Reduction can be in volume or toxicity. | 10 | |
| 4800543875 | 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. | 11 | |
| 4800550123 | Conservation | "Scientific Management" of natural resources. | 12 | |
| 4800550124 | Preservation | To leave a wilderness area on public land untouched by human impact | 13 | |
| 4800550125 | Restoration | To reestablish a diverse, dynamic community at sited that have been degraded (back to its natural state). | 14 | |
| 4800550126 | Remediation | To clean up chemical contaminants in a polluted area. | 15 | |
| 4800550866 | Mitigation | To repair and rehabilitate a damaged ecosystem, usually by providing a replacement area (often wetlands) | 16 | |
| 4800550867 | Reclamation | To repair chemical and physical manipulations carried out in severely degraded sites, such as open-pit mines or large-scale construction | 17 | |
| 4803060166 | Clean Air Act Results | Reduced sulfur dioxide emissions from power plants using a cap-and-trade system (companies were only allowed to release certain amounts) | 18 | |
| 4803061024 | Clean Water Acts Results | More swimmable and fishable rivers across the united states | 19 | |
| 4803061734 | Superfund Results | Dozens of abandoned and heavily destroyed sites have been restored | 20 | |
| 4803062795 | Kyoto Protocol Results | USA didn't sign, so most countries don't follow it | 21 | |
| 4803063466 | Montreal Protocol Results | Almost all countries quit using CFCs, so by 2015 they should be leaving the ozone layer | 22 | |
| 4803064337 | RCRA Results | Many damaged ecosystems (brownfields) and contaminated lands have been cleaned up | 23 | |
| 4803206552 | Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act | Requires the restoration of abandoned mines | 24 | |
| 4803206553 | Food Quality Protection Act | Enforces safe levels of pesticides in foods, and all ingredients must be screened for estrogen / endocrine effects | 25 | |
| 4803207092 | Energy Policy Act | Incentivized research and use of alternative energies | 26 | |
| 4803207093 | Marine Protection Act | Controls pollution dumped into the ocean | 27 | |
| 4803207614 | Wilderness Act | Allows Congress to set aside public land for preservation | 28 |
