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National Parks Service Act (Land)
The National Parks Service Act of 1916 was passed in order to conserve scenery, biodiversity, ecosystems, geothermal resources, and historic objects and wildlife. -
Wilderness Act (Animals)
The wilderness act created the national wilderness preservation system. They used this tool to preserve 109 million acres of land that has not been tampered with. The wilderness act placed 54 areas into the system and those areas includes 9.1 million acres in 13 states. -
Clean Air Act (Air)
The Clean Air Act was passed in order to protect public health and welfare be making air quality standards and creating limitations on air pollution coming from both stationary sources (like factories) and mobile sources (like cars or planes). The act was separated into two major standards; Primary standards, which were focused on public health and safety, and secondary standards, which were made to focus on the environment and property damage. -
Clean Water Act (Water)
The Clean Water Act, as the name suggests, was made to improve the quality of water. This includes water quality of lakes, rivers, and coastal areas. The act had two main objectives that lead to its enactment; 1) To decrease the amount of, or eliminate pollutants into the water, and 2) to achieve water quality levels that are fishable and swimmable. -
Marine Mammal Protection Act (Animals)
The MMPA protects all marine mammals prohibits the taking of marine mammals out of
U.S. waters and prohibits the import of marine mammals and products of marine mammals in the U.S. -
Endangered Species Act (Animals)
The Endangered Species Act was passed in order to preserve natural life and the overall “natural aesthetic” that it provides. Preserving natural beauty by protecting endangered species of plant or animal alike. Its an extension of the Endangers Species Conservation Act -
Endangered Species Conservation Act (Animals)
After congress passed this act they realized recognized that our natural heritage is rich of “esthetic, ecological, educational, recreational, and scientific value of our nation and its people. They also furthered expressed a concern that many of the nations plants and animals are in danger of becoming extinct. -
Safe Water Drinking Act (Health Hazards)
The safe drinking water act. Got established to protect the water in the U.S. the law focuses on all waters or potentially designed for drinking weather above or underground sources. The (EPA) protects the freshwater and requires the owner all owners and operators of public systems to comply with the standards. -
Toxic Substance Control Act (Health Hazards)
This act gives the EPA the right to require reporting, record keeping and testing requirements, and restrictions relating to chemical substances and/ or mixtures. Certain substances are generally excluded from TCSA. -
Soil and Water Conservation Act (Land)
The Soil and Water Conservation Act allows the United States Department of Agriculture authority to plan and make strategic assessments about the protection, conservation, and enhancement of soil and water. -
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA or Superfund) (Health Hazards)
This law created to tax the chemical and petroleum industries and provided broad federal authority to respond to releases or threatened releases of hazardous substances that may endanger the public health or the environment. Over a period of 5 years $1.6 billion was collected and the tax went towards the cleanup of abandoned or uncontrolled hazardous waste sites. -
Nuclear Waste Policy (Health Hazards)
This policy priorities for the disposal of high-level radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel and to establish a program of research, development, and demonstration regarding the disposal of high-level radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel. -
Montreal Protocol (Health Hazards)
The Montreal Protocol sets a path of repair to the ever dwindling ozone. The enactment of the Montreal Protocol has resulted in the avoidance of millions of diseases, including skin cancer. It monitors and slows down the production and use of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs). -
Environmental Protection to the Antarctic (Land)
The Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty designates Antarctica as a “natural reserve, devoted to peace and science”. It establishes environmental principles that must be followed and taken into consideration whenever activities of any kind are being held. -
Kyoto Protocol (Air)
The Kyoto Protocol was made to have developed countries and developing countries tackle the needs and concerns of the high emissions from greenhouse gasses. The Kyoto Protocol funds adoption projects and programs in developing countries that are partys to the Kyoto Protocol in order to help work with slowing the emmions of six types of greenhouse gasses: Carbon dioxide (CO2); Methane (CH4); Nitrous oxide (N2O); Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs); Perfluorocarbons (PFCs); and Sulphur hexafluoride (SF6)
