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Shows the relative effect of various doses of a drug or chemical on an organism as determined by experiments.
What is a dose-response curve?
100
Sets acceptable levels of air pollution?
What is the Clear Air Act (1963, 70, 77,90)
100
Primary law governing disposal of hazardous waste.
What is the Resource Conservation & Recovery Act (RCRA) (1976)?
100
Compulsory checks on substances before permitting widespread use?
What is Toxic Substances Control Act (1976)
100
Lists 900 species that can't be commercially traded.
What is Convention on INternational Trade & Endangered Soecies (1975) (CITES)
200
The study of the spread of diseases.
What is Epidemiology?
200
Sets standards for allowable levels of water pollution.
What is the Clean Water Act?
200
Sets drinking water standards - water treatment & sources of water also.
What is The Safe Drinking WAter Act (SDWA) (1974)
200
Acceptable levels of water pollution
What is Water Pollution Control Act (1948)?
200
20 countries negotiate regulations on ozone - depleting substances
What is Vienna Convention (1985)
300
An estimate of the risk posed by an action or substance
What is risk assessment?
300
Protects econsystems, resources, & species from harm; endangered & threatened species.
What is the Endangered Species Act (1973)?
300
Protection & conservation & enforcement of soil, water & natural resources.
What is Soil, Water & Conservation Act (1977)
300
Protects lands, preservation areas, national parks, restricts uses.
What is The Wilderness Act (1964)
300
Controls production of chemicals that harm the ozone layer; freezes production of CFCs strengthened by Copenhagen Protocol
What is Montreal Protocol?
400
Federal agencies must research effects of all proposed activities before implementing.
What is National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) (1969/70)?
400
Makes polluters pay for cleanup.
What is The Superfund Law (1980) (Also known as CERCLA)
400
In war, prohibits the use of asphxiating, poisonous or other gases, bacteriological methods of warefare.
What is Geneva Protocol?
400
Created a framework for reducing emission of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere?
What is the Kyoto Protocol? (1998)
500
Created to enforce the Clean Air Act. Regulates pesticides?
What is the EPA (1970)
500
Established to regulate 6 major pollutants.
What is the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS)?
500
Requires reclamation of land once mined for coal; mining companies replant vegetation.
What is Surface Mining Control & Reclamation Act (1977)
500
Created UN Environment Prog (UNEP) - negotiates, implements monitors treaties.
What is UN Conference on the Human Environment (1972) Stockholm
500
Climate change agreement dealing with greenhouse gas emissions
What is Paris Climate Agreement (2017)
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