Water regulations
Regulates and enforces all discharge into water sources and wetland destruction/construction.
Clean Water Act
Agreement among 150 nations requiring greenhouse gas emission reduction.
Kyoto Protocol
Act that requires all states to have facilities to handle low level radioactive wastes.
Low Level Radioactive Policy Act
Act that established the soil conservation service, which deals with soil erosion problems, carries out soil surveys, and does research on soil salinity.
Soil Conservation Act
Act that protects species that are considered to be threatened or endangered.
Endangered Species Act
Act that creates programs for eliminating or reducing the pollution of interstate waters and tributaries and improving the sanitary condition of surface and underground waters.
Federal Water Pollution Control Act
Banned the production of aerosols and initiated the phase out of all CFC's.
Montreal Protocol
Act that established a site to identify for, and construct, an underground repository for spent nuclear reactor fuel and high-level radioactive waste from federal defense programs.
Nuclear Waste Policy Act
Act that provides for a continuing appraisal of US soil, water, and related resources, including fish and wildlife habitats, and a soil and water conservation program to assist landowners.
Soil and Water Conservation Act
Act that authorized the president to assist countries in protecting and maintaining wildlife habitats.
International Environmental Protection Act
Act that states "A company cannot ship oil into the United States until it presents a plan to prevent spills that may occur.
Oil Pollution Act
EPA is given the ability to track the 75,000 industrial chemicals currently produced or imported into the United States
Toxic Substances Control Act
Act that makes it unlawful for any person to dump or transport for the purpose of dumping sewage, sludge, or industrial waste into ocean waters.
Act that set minimal standards for all waste disposal facilities and for hazardous wastes.
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
Act that prohibits the "take" of marine mammals in U.S. waters and by U.S. citizens on the high seas
Marine Mammals Protection Act
Act that allows the EPA to set the standards for drinking water quality and oversees all of the states, localities, and water suppliers who implement these standards.
Safe Drinking Water Act
Act that requires facilities to reduce pollution at its source. Reduction can be in volume or toxicity.
Pollution Prevention Act
Act that promotes shredding and separation of waste and burning of remaining materials to produce stream or generate electricity; promotes recycling.
Solid Waste Disposal Act
Act that Mandates the use of annual catch limits and accountability measures to end overfishing.
Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act
Act that requires purchase of a stamp by waterfowl hunters.
Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp Act
Regulates and enforces all discharge into water sources and wetland destruction/construction.
Established primary and secondary air quality standards. Required states to develop implementation plans. Sets limits and goals to reduce mobile source air pollution and ambient air quality standards.
Clean Air Act
Governs the transportation of hazardous materials and wastes.
Hazardous Material Transportation Act
Act that authorizes the president to draw from the petroleum reserve as well as established a permanent home-heating oil reserve in the Northeast.
Energy Policy and Conservation Act
Act that regulates the dumping of wastes into oceans and coastal waters
Marine Plastic Pollution Research and Control Act