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Water
Environment
Air
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Species
100
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

Federal law that regulates air emissions from area, stationary, and mobile sources.

What is the Clean Air Act

100

established prohibitions and requirements concerning closed and abandoned hazardous waste sites

what is The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA)?

100
EPA makes a list of endagered species and threatened species
What is the Endangered Species Act
200

regulates and protects the quality of water in rivers, lakes, and other bodies of water. It sets standards for wastewater treatment, controls pollution from industries, and aims to maintain the integrity of aquatic ecosystems.

What is the Clean Water Act?

200

This  is one greatest environmental success stories to date

What is the Montreal Protocol? 

200

What is the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) also known as? 

what is the "“Cradle-to-Grave Act"?

200

Lists species that cannot be commercially traded as live specimens or wildlife products

What is the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES)?

300
Mandates spill cleanup procedures
What is Oil Pollution Act?
300

 an international agreement that aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and combat climate change.

What is The Kyoto Protocol?

300

sets specific regulations concerning the manufacture, transport, storage, use, and disposal of a host of hazardous chemicals. Its major provision requires extensive documentation at every step to ensure the hazardous wastes are disposed of properly.

What is the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)?

300

These are the 2 main goals of the Endangered Species Act. 

What is to prevent the extinction of imperiled plant and animal life, and secondly, to recover and maintain those populations by removing or lessening threats to their survival

400
This is the type of pollution source that the clean water act focuses on controlling 

what are point sources of pollution (water pollution that can be traced back to a single, identifiable discharge point, such as a pipe or drain)?

400

prohibits the approval of any food additive found to cause cancer in humans or animals. It ensures that no carcinogenic substances are intentionally added to processed foods.

What is the Delaney Clause (a provision within the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act)? 

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

an international treaty designed to protect the ozone layer by phasing out the production of numerous substances that are responsible for ozone depletion

What is the Montreal Protocol?