Legislation & year
This protects the quality of drinking water in the US.
What is the Safe Drinking Water Act of 1974
This protects human health and environment by writing and enforcing regulations.
These are the primary greenhouse gases (5)
Regulates pollutant discharges into navigable waters, sets quality standards for surface waters, and funds sewage treatment infrastructure.
Clean Water Act, 1972
The factor that is changed in a scientific experiment.
Regulates emissions from stationary (industrial) and mobile sources
Clean Air Act, 1970
This is part of the US Dept. of the interior and manages fish, wildlife, and natural resources.
What is the US Fish & Wildlife Service
This greenhouse gas does NOT significantly contribute to global climate change
water vapor
Regulates international trade of animals and plants through a mandatory, standardized permit and certificate system
Convention of International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) 1975
The outcome or response due to the changing of another variable.
Dependent variable
This is the program for the conservation of threatened and endangered plants and animals.
What is the endangered species At of 1973
This is part of the USDA and protects national forests and national grasslands.
US Forest service
This greenhouse gas has a global warming potential of 1
Carbon dioxide
International treaty designed to protect the stratospheric ozone layer by phasing out the production and consumption of ozone-depleting substances (ODS), such as chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs).
Montreal Protocol, 1987
The extent to which the results can be reproduced when the research is repeated under the same conditions.
Reliability
This stops any known cancer-causing agents to be deliberately added to food.
What is the Delaney Cause of Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1958
This gathers information research and assesses environmental problems.
United Nations Environment Program.
This greenhouse gas has the highest GWP
CFCs
Treaty under the UNFCCC that committed industrialized nations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, addressing global warming
Kyoto Protocol, 1997
The extent to which the results really measure what they are supposed to measure.
Validity
This gives the EPA authority to control waste management, from generation to disposal, to protect human health and the environment, conserve resources, and reduce waste through recycling and source reduction.
What is the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976.
U.S. Department of agriculture
The second largest amount of GHG, which traps more heat than CO2
Methane
"Superfund," authorizes the EPA to clean up abandoned or uncontrolled hazardous waste sites and respond to emergency releases.
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) - 1980
A good hypothesis must be ________ and __________.
Testable and falsifiable