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Lacey Act
Laws trafficking in fish, wildlife, or plants are illegally taken, possessed, transported, or sold -
World Bank
The world bank is a finical institution that provides grants to low and middle class countries -
World Health Organization
WHO's primary goal is to direct international health within the United Nation's system and lead to its partners in health responses. -
Delaney Clause of Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act
to ban food additives which were found to cause or induce cancer in humans or animals -
National Environmental Policy Act
Requires federal agencies to assess the survival effects of their proposal action -
Environmental Protection Agency
Protects people and the environment from significant health risk, sponsors and conduct research, and develops and enforces environmental regulation -
Clean Air Act
The law that defines EPA's responsibilities for protecting and imprisoning the nation's air quality and stratospheric ozone -
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Assures safe and health for working conditions by setting and enforcing standards, and by providing training outreach, education, and assistance -
United Nations Environment Programme
The global authority that sets the environmental agenda -
Clean Water Act
Establishes the basic structures for regulating discharges of pollutants into into U.S. water -
Safe Drinking Water Act
To ensure safe drinking water for the public -
Endangered Species Act
Provides a framework to conserve and protect endangered and threatened species and their habitats both domestically and abroad -
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species
Ensure that international trade in animals and plants doesn't threaten their survival in the wild -
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
It gives the EPA the authority to control hazardous waste from cradle to grave. -
Surface Mining and Reclamation Act
Prohibits surface coal mining within the boundaries of any National Parks system -
Department of Energy
Manages the United State's nuclear infrastructure and administrators the country's energy policy -
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, Liability Act or Superfund Act
provides a "superfund" to clean up uncontrolled or abandoned waste sites as well as accidents, spills, and other emergency releases of pollutants and containments into the environment -
Montreal Protocol
A treaty designed to protect the ozone layer by phasing out the production of numerous substances responsible for ozone depletion -
Kyoto Protocol
Operationalizes the U.N. by committing industrialized countries and economics in transition to limit and reduce greenhouse gases