Clear The Air
This is the first federal legislation to actually pertain to "controlling" air pollution.
What is the Clean Air Act?
This list identifies wastes from common manufacturing and industrial processes as hazardous.
These processes occur in different industries, and are known as wastes from non-specific sources.
What is the F-list?
The Clean Water Act (CWA) is an amendment to this legislation.
What is the Federal Water Pollution Control Act?
1948
RCRA is an amendment to this act.
What is the Solid Waste Disposal Act (SDWA)?
He created the EPA and OSHA.
Who is Richard Nixon?
This group of six includes:
Particulate Matter, Ozone, Sulfur Dioxide, Nitrogen Dioxide, Carbon Monoxide and Lead.
What are "criteria pollutants?"
This list identifies wastes from specific sources of industry and manufacturing and are must fit into one of 13 categories.
What is the K-list?
These waters are subject to the ebb and flow of the tide, shoreward to the mean high water mark and/or are presently used, or have been used in the past, or may be susceptible for use to transport interstate or foreign commerce.
What is Navigable?
RCRA has been amended twice.
This first act strenghened enforcement at federal faciliites.
What is the Federal Facility Compliance Act?
1992
This president entered the United States into the Paris Agreement on Climate Change.
Who is Barack Obama?
This Particulate Matter is one quarter the size of PM 10.
What is PM 2.5?
This list identifies acutes hazardous wastes from discarded commercial chemical products.
What is the P-list?
These sources are discrete conveyances such as pipes or man-mande ditches.
What are point sources?
This is considered the least desirable method of waste disposal.
What is land disposal?
This president promulgated the Superfund Amendments and Re-authorization Act (SARA.)
Who is President Reagan?
These airborne materials are commonly produced by industry emissions that are known or suspected to cause cancer or other serious chronic health effects.
What are Hazardous Air Pollutants (HAPs or Air Toxics?)
This list identifies hazardous waste from discarded commercial chemical products.
What is the U list?
Effluent guidelines require the use of this technology.
What is best available technology (BAT?)
Underground Storage Tanks (UST) must have this percent of their combined volume underground.
What is ten (10) percent?
This president signed the 1990 Clean Air Act amendment.
Who is President Bush?
There are 189 of these.
What are Hazardous Air Pollutants (HAPs)?
This material is at the top of list for being the most recycled in the U.S.
What is steel?
This section of the CWA-SPCC prohibits the discharge of harmful quantities of oil into navigable waters of the U.S.
What is Section 311?
These four characteristics are considered by RCRA and DOT to constitute hazardous materials or hazardous waste.
What are Ignitability, Reactivity, Corrosivity &
Toxicity?
This French president is known for pushing environmental issues and vowed to "Make Our Planet Great Again"
Who is Emmanuel Macron?