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Allows states to work with the federal government to protect U.S. costal zones from environmentally harmful overdevelopment.
What is the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972?
100
Establishes regulation of the manufacture, distribution, and import of some toxic chemicals by the EPA
What is the Toxic Substance Control Act of 1976?
100
Intended to stop injury to public grazing lands by preventing overgrazing and soil deterioration.
What is the Taylor Grazing Act of 1934?
100
Establishes a U.S. petroleum reserve of up to 1 billion barrels.
What is the Energy Policy and Conservation Act of 1975?
100
This act included a public 'right to known' requirement to inform consumers about the contents of their tap water.
What is the Safe Drinking Water Act of 1974?
200
Maintains goals and standards for U.S. water quality and purity.
What is the Clean Water Act?
200
Declares that pollution should be prevented or reduced when possible and recycled in an environmentally safe manner when feasible.
What is the Pollution Prevention Act of 1990?
200
Provides funding and assistance for development, revision, and implementation of conservation plans and programs for non-game fish and wildlife.
What is the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Act of 1980?
200
Establishes a regulatory structure for construction and use of nuclear power plants and nuclear weapons facilities.
What is the Atomic Energy Act of 1954?
200
This act requires federal agencies to conduct thorough assessments of the environmental impact of activities funded by the federal government.
What is NEPA? (The 1970 National Environmental Policy Act)
300
Requires wildlife agencies to review activities that can could potentially harm mammals such as whales, seals, and manatees.
What is the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972?
300
This act requires sites containing toxic waste to be cleaned up, and was amended retroactively to establish cleanup required and liability.
What is CERCLA or Superfund of 1980? (The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act)
300
Protects threatened and endangered species by protecting species habitats.
What is the Endangered Species Act of 1973?
300
Requires the restoration of abandoned mining areas and provides environmental protections to the public and environment.
What is the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977?
300
Gave an applicant ownership of land for little or no cost.
What is the Homestead Act of 1862?
400
Bans the dumping of industrial waste and sewage into the ocean
What is the Ocean Dumping Ban Act of 1988?
400
Requires oil storage facilities and vessels to have spill-response plans and provide rapid implementation.
What is the Oil Pollution Act of 1990?
400
Establishes a 200-mile fishery conservation zone
What is the Fish Conservation and Management Act?
400
The goal of international agreement is to limit the production of substances that harm the stratospheric ozone layer.
What is the Montreal Protocol?
400
This act developed air quality standards and efforts to control air pollution.
What is the Clean Air Act?
500
Provides public warnings about the risk of exposure to toxic chemicals and to eliminated toxins from drinking water supplies.
What is Proposition 65? (A California Law passed by voter initiative)
500
Sets limits for discharge of various forms of waste into the ocean.
What is the Marine Plastic Pollution Research and Control Act of 1987?
500
Intended to maintain and restore healthy level of fish stocks and prevent overharvesting, also known as the Magnuson Stevens Act.
What is the Fisheries Conservation and Management Act of 1976?
500
This international agreement set binding emission limits on greenhouse gases.
What is the Kyoto Protocol?
500
This act developed standards for the management of hazardous waste and included some provisions for cleanup of existing sites.
What is the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976?