Acronyms
Water Based Laws
Prevention of Pollution
Protecting le Animals
I Speak For The Trees
100
ODA
What is the Ocean Dumping Act?
100
This act regulates the transportation and dumping of any material into ocean waters.
What is Ocean Dumping Act?
100
This act is designed to control air pollution on a national level. It is one of the United States' first and most influential modern environmental laws, and one of the most comprehensive air quality laws in the world.
What is the Clean Air Acts?
100
This act provides for the conservation of species that are endangered or threatened throughout all or a significant portion of their range, and the conservation of the ecosystems on which they depend.
What is the Endangered Species Act?
100
What book/movie does this section's quote originate from?
What is The Lorax?
200
TSCA
What is the Toxic Substance Control Act?
200
This act authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to designate and protect areas of the marine environment with special national significance due to their conservation, recreational, ecological, historical, scientific, cultural, archaeological, educational or aesthetic qualities as national marine sanctuaries.
What is the Marine Sanctuary Act?
200
This act was a United States federal law that allowed the government to pay farmers to reduce production so as to conserve soil and prevent erosion.
What is the Soil Conservation Act?
200
This law was one of the first laws ever written that establishes the broad national framework for protecting our environment.
What is the National Environmental Policy Act?
200
What branch of government does the Department of the Interior, Department of Agriculture, and Department of Energy belong to?
What is the Executive Branch?
300
PPA
What is the Pollution Prevention Act?
300
This act establishes the basic structure for regulating discharges of pollutants into the waters of the United States and regulating quality standards for surface waters.
What is the Clean Water Act?
300
This act provides EPA with authority to require reporting, record-keeping and testing requirements, and restrictions relating to chemical substances and/or mixtures.
What is the Toxic Substance Control Act?
300
This act is a United States federal law that established the National Park Service, an agency of the United States Department of the Interior, that is key to establishing multiple National Parks.
What is the National Park Service Act?
300
This act was a legislative response by the U.S. Congress to the 1973 energy crisis. The package was a major step in the legislation of the energy field, both the supply and the demand side.
What is the National Energy Act?
400
FIFRA
What is the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act?
400
This act protects all marine mammals, including cetaceans (whales, dolphins, and porpoises), pinnipeds (seals and sea lions), sirenians (manatees and dugongs), sea otters, and polar bears within the waters of the United States.
What is the Marine Mammal Protection Act?
400
This act focused on industry, government, and public attention on reducing the amount of pollution through cost-effective changes in production, operation, and raw materials use. Opportunities for source reduction are often not realized because
What is the Pollution Prevention Act?
400
This act makes it illegal for anyone to take, possess, import, export, transport, sell, purchase, barter, or offer for sale, purchase, or barter, any migratory bird, or the parts, nests, or eggs of such a bird except under the terms of a valid permit issued pursuant to Federal regulations.
What is Migratory Bird Treaty Act?
400
This name is the secondary name to the National Park Service Act.
What is the Organic Act?
500
CITES
What is the Wilderness Act and Endangered Species Act?
500
This act authorized the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service 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.
What is the Federal Water Pollution Control Act?
500
This act is a United States federal law designed to clean up sites contaminated with hazardous substances and pollutants.
What is CERCLA? (Superfund Act)
500
This act prevented the taking, including transportation, importing or possession, of fur seals and sea otters. Exceptions are authorized for Indians, Aleuts, and Eskimos who dwell on the coasts of the North Pacific Ocean, who are permitted to take fur seals and dispose of their skins.
What is the Fur Seal Act 1966?
500
This act bans trafficking in illegal wildlife. In 2008, the Act was amended to include plants and plant products such as timber and paper. This landmark legislation is the world's first ban on trade in illegally sourced wood products.
What is the Lacey Act?
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