Environmental Law
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| attempting to reduce or eliminate pollution in interstate waters and their tributaries. | ||
| EPA set up maximum contaminant levels (MCLs) and maximum contaminant level goals (MCLGs) on allowable levels of contaminants in public drinking water | ||
| bans discharge of pollutants into surface water | ||
| required EPA to identify air pollutants. created a system for pollution trading. phased out CFCs to protect against the hole in the ozone layer | ||
| regulating how pesticides are used | ||
| Bans testing nuclear weapons in the Earth's atmosphere, underwater, and in space | ||
| phases out all CFCs from production and consumption by 2005 | ||
| limits dumping hazardous wastes from one country to another aka toxic trading/ toxic colonialism | ||
| phase out the production of greenhouse gases. establish system for trading carbon credits | ||
| protect areas of federal land as national monuments | ||
| creates national parks for future generations | ||
| protects large areas of land from developement | ||
| endangered animals and plants cannot be harmed directly or killed | ||
| requires the Government to consider environmental consequences of any major federal action. must prepare an environmental impact statement (EIS) | ||
| catacategorizes waste as hazardous or non-hazardous. hazarous materials must be tracked from cradle-to-grave. | ||
| cleaning up hazardous waste sites and discouraging companies from creating new ones. tries to track down who is responsible for the land and takes care of cleaning it up if no one can be blamed |