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Waste and Toxic Laws
Land and Air Law
Water and a surprise
In the Wild
Grab Bag
100
Established a site to identify for, and construct, an underground repository for spend nuclear reactor fuel and high-level radioactive waste from federal defense programs
What is Nuclear Waste Policy Act (NWPA)
100
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
What is the Clean Air Act (CAA)
100
Established liability for oil spills and funds to clean-up oil spills
What is the Oil Pollution Act (OPA)
100
Protects species that are considered to be threatened or endangered. Includes migratory birds and their habitats
What is the Endangered Species Act (ESA)
100
Assures the safety, wholesomeness and truthful packaging and labeling of food, drugs, cosmetics and medical devices
What is the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (FDA)
200
Management of nonhazardous and hazardous solid waste including landfills and storage tanks. Set minimal standards for all waste disposal facilities and for hazardous wastes
What is the Resource Conservation and Recovery act (RCRA)
200
Authorized the Council on Environmental Quality as the oversight board for general conditions; directs federal agencies to take environmental consequences into account in decision making
What is the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
200
Regulates and enforces all discharge into water sources and wetland destruction/construction
What is the Clean Water Act (CWA)
200
Allowed congress to set aside federally owned land for preservation
What is the Wilderness Act (WA)
200
Governs the sale and use of pesticide products within the United States.
What is the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act
300
Established federal authority for emergency response and clean-up of hazardous substances that have been spilled, improperly disposed, or released into the environment
What is the Superfund of CERCLA
300
Requires restoration of abandoned mines
What is the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act (SMCRA)
300
Established to protect the quality of drinking water in the US and established groundwater protection.
What is the Safe Water Drinking Act (SWDA)
300
Control the exploitation of endangered species through international legislation. Bans hunting, capturing and selling of threatened species and bans the import of ivory
What is the Convention of International Trade in Endangered Species (CITIES)
300
Establishes, issues, and enforces national workplace safety regulations
The Occupational Safety and Health Act
400
Requires reporting of toxic releases: encourages response for chemical releases
What is the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-know Act (EPCRA)
400
Banned the production of aerosols and initiated the phase out of all CFCs
What is the Montreal protocol
400
Establishes a legal order for the seas and oceans that will facilitate international communication, and promote the peaceful uses of the seas and oceans, the equitable and efficient utilization of their resources, the conservation of their living resources, and the study, protection and preservation of the marine environment.
What is the Convention on the Law of the Sea
400
Aids in the restoration of game and other wild birds in parts of the U.S. where the birds have become scarce/extinct and to regulate the introduction of American or foreign birds in habitat where they have not previously existed
What is Lacey Act
400
The first global environmental conference that focused on coordinating international policy regarding the environment
What is the Stockholm Declaration (Declaration of the Conference on the Human Environment)
500
Provides the EPA with authority to require reporting, record-keeping and testing requirements, and restrictions relating to chemical substances and/or mixtures. Certain substances are generally excluded, including, among others, food, drugs, cosmetics and pesticides.
What is the Toxic Substances Control Act
500
Agreement among 150 nations requiring greenhouse gas emission reduction
What is the Kyoto protocol
500
This amends both FIFRA and the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), establishes a new safety standard for pesticide residues in food and emphasizes protecting the health of infants and children
What is the Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA)
500
Intended to stop injury to the public grazing lands by preventing overgrazing and soil deterioration; to provide for their orderly use, improvement, and development; and to stabilize the livestock industry dependent upon the public range
What is Taylor Grazing Act
500
This provides support for commodity crops, horticulture and livestock, conservation, nutrition, trade and food aid, agricultural research, farm credit, rural development, energy, forestry, and other related programs. It also included tax-related provisions to offset some new spending initiatives in the rest of the bill
What is the Food Security Act (Farm Bill)