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Natonal Park Service Act
Established the National Park Service in the United States. -
Soil Conservation Act
Allowed the government to pay farmers to reduce production so as to "conserve soil" and prevent erosion. -
Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, Rodenticide Act
In the late 1940s, the federal government responded to the conflicting potentials for good and evil of pesticides by enacting one of the earliest and long-lasting regulatory laws. -
Clean Air Act
An act to provide research and technical assistance relating to air pollution control, left states principally in charge of prevention and control of air pollution at the source, declared that air pollution was a danger to public health and welfare, but preserved the "primary responsibilities and rights of the states and local government in controlling air pollution -
Fish and Wildlife Act
This Act established a national policy for promoting both the protection and intelligent use of fish and wildlife resources, creating the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service within the Department of the Interior -
Price-Anderson Act
To partially indemnify the nuclear industry against liability claims arising from nuclear incidents while still ensuring compensation coverage for the general public. -
Wilderness Act
Designated all previously existing Wild Areas, Canoe Areas, and Wilderness Areas as Wilderness -
Land and Water Conservation Act
This federal program provides matching grants to states and through the states to local governments for the acquisition and development of public outdoor recreation areas and facilities. -
Water Quality Act
Stipulated states to provide water quality standards for interstate waters. -
Water Resources Planning Act
This act established water resources council composed of cabinet representatives to come up with adequate plans to handle the water demands throughout the U.S. -
Species Conservation Act
Allowed foranimals native to the United States to be listed as endangered -
Freedom of Information Act
is a federal freedom of information law that allows for the full or partial disclosure of previously unreleased information and documents controlled by the United States government. -
National Trails System Act
Created a series of National trails "to promote the preservation of, public access to, travel within, and enjoyment and appreciation of the open-air, outdoor areas and historic resources of the Nation." -
National Environment Policy Act
Established a U.S. national policy promoting the enhancement of the environment and also established the President's Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ). -
Clean Water Act
Establishes the basic structure for regulating discharges of pollutants into the waters of the United States and regulating quality standards for surface waters. -
Marine Mammal Protection Act
First act of Congress to call specifically for an ecosystem approach to natural resource management and conservation -
Endangered Species Act
Designed to protect critically imperiled species from extinction as a "consequence of economic growth and development untempered by adequate concern and conservation." -
Renewable Resources Planning Act
Reports on the status and trends of the Nation’s renewable resources on all forest and rangelands. -
Convention on International Trade in Endagered Species
Ensures that international trade in plants and animals does not threaten their survival in the wild. -
Safe Dinking Water Act
Establishes national drinking water safety standards and addressing inconsistencies in monitoring the nation's water supply caused by differing state standards. -
National Forest Management Act
To reform the Forest Service and ensure that the agency give due consideration to wildlife, water quality, and recreation as well as the logging, road building, grazing, and other activities associated with resource extraction. -
Federal Land Policy and Management Act
The Federal Land Policy Management Act of 1976 (FLPMA) is the principal law governing how the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) manages public lands -
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
To protect human health and the environment from the potential hazards of waste disposal, to conserve energy and natural resources, to reduce the amount of waste generated, and to ensure that wastes are managed in an environmentally sound manner. -
Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act
The law requires the assessment, planning,
and monitoring of national forest resources with a periodic display for Congress that will allow that body to select and direct the goods and services to be produced from the nation’s forests. -
Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act
The primary federal law that regulates the environmental effects of coal mining in the United States. -
Soil and Water Conservation Act
Requires USDA to periodically prepare a national plan for soil and water conservation on private lands based on an inventory and appraisal of existing resource conditions and trends. -
Energy Tax Act
Intended to induce homeowners to invest in energy conservation and solar devices. -
Low Level Radioactive Policy Act
Requires each state to take responsibility for providing, either by itself or in cooperation with other states, for the disposal of the low-level radioactive waste that is generated within its borders. - See more at: http://www.whiteshaverlaw.com/news/environmental-law/the-low-level-radioactive-waste-policy-act/#sthash.zt08pAZz.dpuf -
fish and wildlife conservation act
This act authorizes financial and technical assistance to the States for the development, revision, and implementation of conservation plans and programs for nongame fish and wildlife -
Comprehensive Enivromenal Response, Compensation and Liability Act
Created a tax on the chemical and petroleum industries and provided broad Federal authority to respond directly to releases or threatened releases of hazardous substances that may endanger public health or the environment. -
Nuclear Waste Policy Act
Establishes both the Federal government's responsibility to provide a place for the permanent disposal of high-level radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel, and the generators' responsibility to bear the costs of permanent disposal. -
International Environmental Protection Act
This act amended the natural resource provisions of the 1961 Foreign Assistance Act by authorizing the President to assist other countries in wildlife and plant protection efforts in order to preserve biological diversity. -
Food security act
By passing the act, Congress recognized the value of taking erodible cropland out of production in the United States. -
Emergency Wetlands Resources Act
Authorized the purchase of wetlands from Land and Water Conservation Fund monies, removing a prior prohibition on such acquisitions. -
Montreal Protocol
An international treaty designed to protect the ozone layer by phasing out the production of numerous substances believed to be responsible for ozone depletion. -
Ocean Dumping Ban Act
Prohibits all municipal sewage sludge and industrial waste dumping into the ocean after December 31, 1991. -
Madrid Protocol
An international treaty that allows a trademark owner to seek registration in any of the countries that have joined the Madrid Protocol by filing a single application, called an “international application.” -
Environmental Education Act
Established a program within the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to increase public understanding of the environment. -
Pollution Prevention Act
Focused industry, government, and public attention on reducing the amount of pollution through cost-effective changes in production, operation, and raw materials use. -
Waste Reduction Act
To reduce and prevent the production and disposal of waste in the province consistent with the principles of sustainable development. -
Lacy Act
The Lacey Act protects both plants and wildlife by creating civil and criminal penalties for a wide array of violations. It prohibits trade in wildlife, fish, and plants that have been illegally taken, transported or sold. The law is still in effect, although it has been amended several times -
Califonia Desert Protection Act
Appropriate public lands in the California desert must be included within the National Park System and the National Wilderness Preservation System in order to preserve the unrivaled scenic, geologic and wildlife values of these lands. -
Food Quality Potection Act
Thsi act amends prior pesticide legislation to establish a more consistent, protective regulatory scheme, based on sound science. -
Kyoto protocol
The Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is an international treaty that sets binding obligations on industrialized countries to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases.
