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Delaney Clause of Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act
This law requires the FDA to ban foods with additives which are found to cause cancer.Within the law additive ingredients include food dyes, flavors, preservatives, and more. -
Clean Air Act
This law defines EPAs responsibilities for protecting and improving that nations air quality and the stratospheric ozone layer. Primary standards provide public health protection, including the heath of sensitive population such as asthmatics, children, and the elderly. -
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species
This agreement was signed by 184 parties in 1973. The treaty was designed to insure that international trade in animals and plants does not threaten their survival in the wild. This was a global agreement among governments to regulate or ban International trade in species under threat. -
Endangered Species Act
This law aspires to prevent extinction, recover imperiled plants and animals, and protect the ecosystem on which they depend. ESA also helps provide clean air, water, and protects natural resources. The end result is healthier communities in the future. -
Safe Drinking Water Act
This law authorizes the EPA to establish minimum standards to protect tap water and require all owners or operators of public water systems to comply with these primary standards. This also creates and criminal and civil penalties for tampering with public water systems. -
Clean Water Act
The CWA is the principal law governing pollution control and water quality of the Nations waterways. The object of the CWA is to restore and maintain the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the Nations waters. -
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
This law gives the EPA the authority to control hazardous waste from cradle to grave. This includes the generation, transportation, treatment, and storage of hazardous waste.RCRA also set forth framework for the management of non-hazardous solid waste. -
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, Liability Act
Also known as the "super fund" provides a federal clean up to dispose of abandoned hazardous waste sites as well as accidents, oil spills, and other releases of pollutants. This law also helps identify the parties responsible for payments to ensure that taxpayers do not bear the cost of remediation. -
Montreal Protocol
A global agreement to protect the stratospheric ozone layer by phasing out the production and consumption of ozone-depleting substances. This was designed to stop the production and import of ozone depleting substances and reduce their concentration in the atmosphere. -
Kyoto Protocol
This treaty operationalize the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change by committing industrialized countries and economies in transition to limit and reduce greenhouse gases. This sets binding targets for 37 countries and the European community for reducing green house gas emissions by 37%.