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National Park Service Act
Established the NPS and gathered the fourteen national parks and twenty-one national monuments together. (Land) -
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Government Interaction with the Environment
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Soil Conservation Act
Established the Soil Conservation Service, an agency that deals with soil erosion problems. (Land) -
Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, Rodenticide Act
Provides federal control of pesticide distribution, sale, and use. (Land) -
Clean Air Act
Designed to protect public health from different types of air pollution caused by a diverse array of pollution sources. (Air) -
Fish and Wildlife Act
Establishes a right of every citizen and resident to fish but to a limit. Also for commercial fishing. (Wildlife) -
Price-Anderson Act
The nuclear power industry is responsible for the first $10 billion of damages resulting from a spill or other accident, while the federal government is responsible for any losses exceeding that amount. (Air) -
Wilderness Act
It created the legal definition of wilderness in the United States, and protected some 9 million acres of federal land. (Land) -
Water Resources Planning Act
Established to maintain a continuing assessment of the adequacy of water supplies in each region of the U.S. -
Water Quality Act
the act strengthened the federal water quality regulations by providing changes in permitting and adds substantial penalties for permit violations -
Land and Water Conservation Act
Made to make sure that land is preserved for future and present generations (Land) -
Freedom of Information Act
A law that gives you the right to access information from the federal government -
Species Conservation Act
programs that aim to conserve, restore, and in some cases propagate certain species of indigenous fish and wildlife determined to be in danger of extinction -
National Trails System Act
The Act and its subsequent amendments authorized a national system of trails and defined four categories of national trails -
National Environmental Policy Act
Requires federal agencies to integrate environmental values into their decision making processes -
Marine Mammal Protection Act
prohibits, with certain exceptions, the "take" of marine mammals in U.S. waters and by U.S. citizens on the high seas, and the importation of marine mammals and marine mammal products into the U.S -
Clean Water Act
Restore and maintain the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the nation's waters -
Endangered Species Act
Provided for the conservation of ecosystems upon which threatened and endangered species of fish, wildlife, and plants depend. -
Renewable Resources Planning Act
Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to conduct an assessment of the Nation's renewable resources every 10 years -
Safe Drinking Water Act
Ensures the quality of Americans' drinking water -
Safe Water Drinking Act
Requires many actions to protect drinking water and its sources: rivers, lakes, reservoirs, springs, and ground water wells -
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species
An international agreement between governments. Its aim is to ensure that international trade in specimens of wild animals and plants does not threaten their survival. -
Federal Land Policy and Management Act
Provides us with the tools we need to cooperatively and creatively manage the public lands in the west -
Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act
RPA reports on the status and trends of the Nation’s renewable resources on all forest and rangelands -
National Forest Management Act
Requires that the Forest Service prepare and revise at fifteen-year intervals a Land and Resource Management Plan (LRMP) for each national forest. -
Resouce Conservation and Recovery Act
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Soil and Water Conservation Act
Requires USDA to periodically prepare a national plan for soil and water conservation on private lands. -
Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act
Regulates the environmental effects of coal mining in the United States. -
Energy Tax Act
The objective of this law was shift from oil and gas supply toward energy conservation. -
Arctic Conservation Act
Conservation law providing protection and management of Antarctic resources -
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, Liability Act
This law created a tax on the chemical and petroleum industries and provided Federal authority to respond directly to releases or threatened releases of hazardous substances that may endanger public health or the environment. -
Low Level Radioactive Policy Act
Three principles:
(1) state responsibility for providing LLW disposal capacity; (2) encouragement of interstate compacts for the exercise of this responsibility; and (3) the right of regional compacts to prohibit disposal at their regional facilities of LLW generated in non-compact states -
Fish and Wildlife Conservation Act
Federal legislation providing protection and management of non-game fish and wildlife. -
Nuclear Waste Policy Act
Supports the use of deep geologic repositories for the safe storage and disposal of radioactive waste. -
International Environmental Protection Act
Authorizes the President to assist other countries in wildlife and plant protection efforts in order to preserve biological diversity -
Food Security Act
An act to extend and revise agricultural price support and related programs -
Emergency Wetlands Resouces 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
Marked an end to almost a century of sewage sludge and industrial waste dumping into the ocean -
Madrid Protocol
It provides a cost-effective and efficient way for trademark holders to ensure protection for their marks in multiple countries through the filing of one application with a single office, in one language, with one set of fees, in one currency. -
Lacey Act
Conservation law of animals in the United States -
Environmental Education Act
Requires EPA to provide national leadership to increase environmental literacy -
Pollution Prevention Act
Reduces the amount of any hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant entering any waste stream or otherwise released into the environment. -
Waste Reduction Act
Enables more companies to recycle their waste instead of sending it to landfill -
California Desert Protection Act
Established the Death Valley National Park, Joshua Tree National Parks and the Mojave National Preserve in the California desert -
Food Quality Protection Act
Designed to ensure that levels of pesticide residues in food meet strict standards for public health protection. -
Kyoto Protocol
a protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, aimed at fighting global warming.