Air/Creatures
Water
Land
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Int'l
100
This Act regulates hazardous air pollutant emissions from various sources, and other airborne toxicants. This Act has also helped reduce acid rain.
What is the Clean Air Acts ('62, '65, '70, '77, '90)?
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

Enacted to end ozone layer damage by restricting the production of chemicals that deplete it. More than 190 countries have signed and evidence shows the thinning of the ozone layer has dramatically slowed.

What is the Montreal Protocol of 1987?

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 CERLA/Superfund Act?
200

The treaty and related protocols that followed that require Antarctica be used for peaceful purposes and scientific research only.

What is the Antarctic Treaty System of 1959?

300
This Act oversees the safety of food, drugs, and cosmetics released to people, and limits pesticides used on plants.
What is the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) of 1938?
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 makes sure that companies like BP are held responsible.
What is the Oil Pollution Act of 1990?
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 Kyoto Protocol of 1997?

400
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?
400

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President that established the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

Who is Richard Nixon?

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 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)?
400
This conference created a framework for environmental action between the nations, especially regarding marine pollution.
What is the Declaration of the Conference on the Human Environment of 1972 (Stockholm Declaration)?
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
This convention established an international agreement regarding state boundaries and international zones offshore.
What is the Convention on the Law of the Sea of 1982?
500

This Act encouraged western migration by providing settlers with 160 acres of land in exchange for a nominal filing fee.

What is the Homestead Act of 1862?

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 agreement sets out a global framework to avoid dangerous climate change by limiting global warming to well below 2°C and pursuing efforts to limit it to 1.5°C.

What is the Paris Agreement of 2016?

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