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Delaney Clause of Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (US)
This law makes the FDA ban any food additive that can be considered a carcinogen. Trough amendments this law has specified that extensive test should be done on possible carcinogens to ensure they pose no health risk, and if they do that they get banned. -
Clean Air Act (US)
The Clean Air Act established the National Ambient air quality standard. This act deals with reducing air pollutants. For major sources of air pollution a maximum degree of reduction is required. Overall, this act ensures that the amount or type of pollution is not a public health risk. -
Clean Water Act (US)
The Clean Water Act sets standards for water quality, and regulates where, when, and how much pollutants can be dumped into a body of water. -
Kyoto protocol (INT)
the Kyoto Protocol involves 192 parties all of which have committed to reducing their greenhouse gas emissions. Industrialized countries set a reduction target which will help to reduce greenhouse gas in the atmosphere, therefore improving global warming. -
Endangered Species Act (US)
The Endangered Species Act focuses on protecting threatened and endangered species of plants, and animals; as well as their habitats. This act puts limits on hunting/fishing certain animals, or prohibits human intervention on lands they call home. -
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species
CITES works to maintain legal, safe, and sustainable international trading of species. This treaty focuses on sustaining healthy population numbers of a species. There are 3 categories: appendix 1, appendix 2, and appendix 3. -
Safe Drinking Water Act
This law focuses on the strict enforcement of drinking water standards to protect human health. To limit containment levels of lead and other harmful water pollutants, measures must be taken as enforced by this legislation. Community supplies have to provide residents with a report stating the local drinking water quality as ordered by this act. -
Resource conservation and Recovery Act (US)
This act states that the EPA control hazardous waste from cradle to grave. The goal of this law is to monitor underground storage tanks, human health reactions to hazardous waste, and manage the substances. -
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, Liability Act (US)
CERCLA or the superfund act grants the president the power to respond to the release of or the threatened release of dangerous substances . This act deals with the clean up of hazardous sites, and holds those responsible for endangering the environment with hazardous waste. -
Montreal protocol (INT)
The Montreal Protocol protects the stratospheric ozone layer which helps to protect humans from harmful UV rays. This treaty called for a complete end to ozone depleting substances like CFCs, HCFC, halons, etc. This action allows the ozone layer to repair itself.