Biodiversity
Water
Land
Waste/Toxicity
Energy/General
100

protects all marine mammals by prohibiting, with certain exceptions, the taking of marine mammals in U.S. waters and by U.S. citizens on the high seas, and the importation of marine mammals and marine mammal products into the United States.

Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972

100
This Act protects recreational and scenic rivers. It helps preserve the natural erosion of the rivers.
What is the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act of 1968?
100
This Act regulates overgrazing so as to protect the soil from erosion and deterioration. This act requires farmers and ranchers to get permits for allotments of public land.
What is the Taylor Grazing Act or 1934?
100
This Act oversees the disposal of solid and toxic waste. (Cradle-to-grave)
What is the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) (1975)?
100
This Act promotes energy efficiency and gives tax credits to homeowners who improve the efficiency of their houses, but also subsidizes oil companies and encourages fossil fuel production.
What is the Energy Policy Act of 1992?
200
This Act protects game & other birds, and reintroduces them where they are extinct or scarce.
What is the Lacey Act of 1900?
200
This Act oversees water pollution and toxicants in water sources.
What is the Clean Water Act?
200
This Act regulates how insecticides, fungicides, and rodent controls are applied to crops and plants.
What is FIFRA (Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodent Control Act)?
200
This Act oversees the cleanup of closed/abandoned hazardous waste cities.
What is the CERCLA/Superfund Act?
200
This Act ensures that industrial decisions factor in environmental consequences. Ex: how will building an airport affect the air?
What is the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)?
300

This act  identifies threatened and endangered species in the United States, and puts their protection ahead of economic considerations.

Endangered Species Act of 1973

300
This Act ensures the quality of drinking water and protects water and its sources (but not private wells).
What is the Safe Drinking Act of 1974, '89, '96?
300
This Act created a legal definition of "wilderness" so that some areas of land could be protected from human and industrial development.
What is the Wilderness Act of 1968?
300

This Act protects humans (namely infants and children) from sickness from pesticide ingestion (among other things). This Act makes sure pesticides are labeled correctly and reevaluates pesticide use every 10 years.

What is the Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA) of 1996?

300
This convention on climate change drafted an international treaty regarding reducing gas, pollution, etc., and held developing countries more accountable to their actions.
What is the Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol of 1997?
400

 this treaty originated at the Stockholm convention. It is an international agreement to phase out 12 organic persistent pollutants, also known as the “dirty dozen,” such as DDT and PCBs.

Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) Treaty

(international treaty not ratified by the United States as of 2009):

400
This is also called the Marine Protection, Research and Sanctuaries Act and is tasked with regulating the disposal of dredged material or fish waste among other things.
What is the Ocean Dumping Act of 1972?
400
This Act oversees environmental damage due to forms of coal mining (like strip mining), reclaims abandoned mines, and requires companies wishing to mine to obtain permits and create cleanup plans.
What is the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977?
400

This Act reduces and prevents pollution through change in use or source reduction.


This Act makes sure that companies like BP are held responsible.



What is the Pollution Prevention Act of 1990?


What is the Oil Pollution Act of 1990? (Called "Oil Spill Prevention and Liability Act" on the sheet)

400
This act established the Office of Environmental Education within the EPA
What is the Environmental Education Act of 1990?
500
This convention was focused on the trade of wild animals and plants and how not to harm them on their journey. Its goal was to protect the survival of endangered animals/plants.
What is the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) of 1973?
500
The 1972 amendments to this act changed its name somewhat formally to the Clean Water Act.
What is the Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1948?
500
This Act delegates what public lands will be used for and protects land from deforestation and disruption.
What is the Classification & Multiple Use Act of 1964?
500
This Act regulates the commercial use of chemicals and other toxic substances. It deems them safe to use or not based on human and environmental factors.
What is the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) or 1976?
500
This Act regulates the use of nuclear technology, nuclear testing, and the creation of nuclear weapons. (not on your list - but a good one to know!)
What is the Atomic Energy Act (AEA) of 1946/1954?
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