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37 Cards in this Set
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Atomic Energy Act |
General regulatory structure for construction and use of nuclear power plants and nuclear weapons facilities. |
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Clean Air Act |
Sets goals and standards for the quality and purity of air in the United States. Tests are taken periodically by law. |
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Clean Water Act |
Establishes and maintains goals and standards for U.S. water quality and purity. |
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Coastal Zone Management Act |
Federal funding to participating coastal states and territories for the implementation of measures that conserve coastal areas. |
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Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act |
Requires the cleanup of sites contaminated with toxic waste. Common name: "Superfund" |
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Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act |
Requires companies to disclose information about toxic chemicals they release into the air and water and dispose of on land. |
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Endangered Species Act |
Protect and recover endangered and threatened species of fish, wildlife, and plants in the U.S. and beyond |
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Energy Policy Act |
Goals, mandates, and amended utility laws to increase clean energy use and improve overall energy efficient in the U.S. |
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Energy Policy and Conservation Act |
Established a reserve of up to 1 billion barrels of petroleum |
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Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (1938) |
Regulating contaminants in food, including pesticides. |
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Federal Land Policy and Management Act |
Protection of the scenic, scientific, historic, and ecologic values of federal lands and for public involvement in their management |
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Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act |
Controls the sale, distribution, and application of pesticides. |
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Fishery Conservation and Management Act |
Established a 200-mile fishery conservation zone |
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Fish and Wildlife Conservation Act |
Authorizes financial and technical assistance to the states for the development, revision, and implementation of conservation plans for non-game fish and wildlife |
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Food, Drug, and Cosmetics Acts (1954, 1958) |
EPA to set tolerances, or maximum residue limits, for pesticide residues on foods. |
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Food Quality Protection Act |
Ensure that levels of pesticide residues in food meet strict standards for public health protection |
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Fisheries Conservation and Management Act |
Governs the management and control of U.S. marine fish populations. Intended to maintain and restore healthy levels of fish stocks and prevent over harvesting. Magnuson Stevens Act |
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Homestead Act of 1862 |
Gave an applicant ownership of land, typically called a "homestead", at little or no cost |
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Lacey Act of 1900 |
Lacey Act protects both plants and wildlife by creating civil and criminal penalties for a wide array of violations. Prohibits trade in wildlife, fish, and plants have been illegally take, transported or sold |
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Marine Mammal Protection Act |
Seeks to protect whales, dolphins, sea lions, seals, manatees and other speciesof marine mammals, many of which remain threatened or endangered. The law requires wildlife agencies to review anyactivity -- for example, the use of underwater explosives or high-intensity active sonar -- that has the potential to "harass"or kill these animals in the wild. |
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Marine Plastic Pollution Research and Control Act of 1987 |
The discharge of plastics, including synthetic ropes, fishingnets, plastic bags, and biodegradable plastics, into the water is prohibited. |
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National Environmental Policy Act |
Requires federal agencies conduct thorough assessments of the environmental impacts of all major activities undertaken or funded by the federal government |
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Ocean Dumping Ban Act of 1988 |
Banned ocean dumping of municipal sewage sludge of industrial waste |
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Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 |
Required the secretary of energy to issue guidelines for selection of sites for construction of two permanent, underground nuclear waste repositories |
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Oil Pollution Act |
Streamlines federal response to oil spills by requiring oil storage facilities and vessels to prepare spill-response plans and provide for their rapid implementation |
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Pollution Prevention Act of 1990 |
Pollution should be prevented or reduced at the source whenever feasible; pollution that cannot be prevented should be recycled in an environmentally safe manner |
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Proposition 65 |
Known as Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act. Designed to provide public warnings about the risk of exposure to toxic chemicals and to eliminate toxins from drinking water supplies |
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Resource Conservation and Recovery Act |
Seeks to prevent the creation of toxic waste dumps by setting standards for the management of hazardous waste |
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Safe Drinking Water Act |
Establishes drinking water standards for tap water safety and requires rules for groundwater proaction from underground injection |
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Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act |
Ensure that coal mining activity is conducted with sufficient protections of the public and the environment and provides for the restoration of abandoned mining areas to beneficial use |
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Taylor Grazing Act |
Signed by President Roosevelt. Stop injury to the public grazing lands by preventing overgrazing and soil deterioration |
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Toxic Substances Control Act |
Authorizes the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate the manufacture, distribution, import, and processing of certain toxic chemicals |
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Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty |
Prohibit all testing of nuclear weapons in all environments: underground, underwater, in the atmosphere, and in space |
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Kyoto Protocol |
International agreement setting binding limits on emissions of greenhouse gases from industrialized countries |
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Montreal Protocol |
Agreement signed by more than 150 countries to limit the production of substances harmful to the stratospheric ozone layer such as CFCs |
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Non-Proliferation Treaty |
Multilateral treaty signed in 1968 which aims to control the spread of nuclear weapons |
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United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change |
International agreement for dealing with climate change adopted at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio in 1992 |