Eliminates ocean dumping & reduction of marine debris
What is the Ocean Dumping Act?
100
The National Environmetal Policy Act of 1969 required all agencies responsible for a major federal project that could significantly affect the quality of the environment to file what?
What is an environmental impact statement?
100
This law established a cap-and-trade program for SO2 in 1990
What is the Clean Air Act
100
What federal law specifically deals with the cleanup of abandoned hazourdous waste sites?
What is Comprehensive Environmental Responsibility Compensation and Liability Act
100
EPA makes a list of endagered species and threatened species
What is the Endangered Species Act
200
Establishes sewage treatment contruction grants.
What is the Clean Water Act?
200
What best exemplifies global collaboration for a sustainable environment?
What is the Montreal Protocol?
200
The Clean Air Act Regulates
What is mobile source limits, acid rain reduction, ozone depletion protection?
200
What is the current recommendation of Congress for the permanent storage of high-level radioactive waste in the US
What is Yucca Mountain
burial deep underground at sites remote from population centers
200
Lists species that cannot be commercially traded as live specimens or wildlife products
What is the Convention on International Trade in Endagered Species?
300
Mandates spill cleanup procedures
What is Oil Pollution Act?
300
Describe the significance of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, which was held on 1972 in Stockholm.
What is the conference provided the first global forum for dialogue on environmental problems.
300
Companies required to report toxic releases each year.
What is the Pollution Prevention Act
300
What law gave the EPA the authority to control hazardous waste from cradle to grave
What is the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
300
Governs pesticide use.
What is the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, Rodenticide Act?
400
A state highway was constructed over wetlands. The state obtained a permit to fill the existing wetlands in accordance with the povisions of the Clean Water Act of 1972, and agreed to create another wetland. This trade off approach to addressing an environmental issue is knows as...
What is mitigation?
400
Study of federal projects affecting the environment
What is the National Environmental Policy Act?
400
EPA tests products and works with companies mostly on voluntary basis.
What is Pollution Prevention Act?
400
Major areas of regulations: landfills, underground storage tanks, hazardous waste disposal, transportation manifests.
What is RCRA?
400
Protects what can be done to birds.
What is the Migratory Bird Act?
500
Established groundwater protection program.
What is the Safe Drinking Water Act?
500
Reduce production & consumption of ozone depleting substances; 1987
What is the Montreal Protocol?
500
Requires reporting of toxic releases.
What is the Energency Planning and Community Right to know Act?
500
TSCA covers these programs.
What is radon, lead in building, asbestos protection?
500
U.S. restriction on importing/exporting endangered animals; 1973