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100
This Act regulates hazardous air pollutant emissions from various sources, and other airborne toxicants. This Act has also helped reduce acid rain.
What is the Clean Air Acts ('62, '65, '70, '77, '90)?
100
This Act protects recreational and scenic rivers. It helps preserve the natural erosion of the rivers.
What is the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act of 1968?
100
This Act regulates overgrazing so as to protect the soil from erosion and deterioration. This act requires farmers and ranchers to get permits for allotments of public land.
What is the Taylor Grazing Act or 1934?
100
This Act oversees the disposal of solid and toxic waste. (Cradle-to-grave)
What is the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) (1975)?
100
This Act promotes energy efficiency and gives tax credits to homeowners who improve the efficiency of their houses, but also subsidizes oil companies and encourages fossil fuel production.
What is the Energy Policy Act of 1992?
200

This international protocol outlined an agreement to lower Greenhouse Emissions between many nations

What is the Kyoto Protocol?

200
This Act oversees water pollution and toxicants in water sources.
What is the Clean Water Act?
200

This act protects endangered species

What is the Endangered Species Act?

200
This Act oversees the cleanup of closed/abandoned hazardous waste cities.
What is the CERLA/Superfund Act?
200
This Act ensures that industrial decisions factor in environmental consequences. Ex: how will building an airport affect the air?
What is the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)?
300

International agreement to phase out CFC's and replace them with HCFCs

What is the Montreal Protocol?

300
This Act ensures the quality of drinking water and protects water and its sources (but not private wells).
What is the Safe Drinking Act of 1974, '89, '96?
300
This Act created a legal definition of "wilderness" so that some areas of land could be protected from human and industrial development.
What is the Wilderness Act of 1968?
300
This Act makes sure that companies like BP are held responsible.
What is the Oil Pollution Act of 1990?
300
This convention on climate change drafted an international treaty regarding reducing gas, pollution, etc., and held developing countries more accountable to their actions.
What is the Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol of 1997?
400
This Act protects humans (namely infants and children) from sickness from pesticide ingestion (among other things). This Act makes sure pesticides are labeled correctly and reevaluates pesticide use every 10 years.
What is the Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA) of 1996?
400
This convention established an international agreement regarding state boundaries and international zones offshore.
What is the Convention on the Law of the Sea of 1982?
400
This convention was focused on the trade of wild animals and plants and how not to harm them on their journey. Its goal was to protect the survival of endangered animals/plants.
What is the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) of 1973?
400
This Act reduces and prevents pollution through change in use or source reduction.
What is the Pollution Prevention Act of 1990?
400
This Act is the third title under the Superfund Act and encourages emergency planning within the community, business, and government. It also warns communities of potential environmental hazards like the release of toxic chemicals into the air.
What is the Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act (EPCRA) of 1986?
500

This Act is part of Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act; banned cancer-causing additives in food

What is the Delaney Clause?

500
This conference created a framework for environmental action between the nations, especially regarding marine pollution.
What is the Declaration of the Conference on the Human Environment of 1972 (Stockholm Declaration)?
500
This Act oversees environmental damage due to forms of coal mining (like strip mining), reclaims abandoned mines, and requires companies wishing to mine to obtain permits and create cleanup plans.
What is the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977?
500
This Act regulates the commercial use of chemicals and other toxic substances. It deems them safe to use or not based on human and environmental factors.
What is the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) or 1976?
500
This Act regulates the use of nuclear technology, nuclear testing, and the creation of nuclear weapons.
What is the Atomic Energy Act (AEA) of 1946/1954?