Laws, Agencies, and Treaties, Joey and Josh

  • Lacey Act

    Lacey Act

    Bans trafficking in fish, wildlife, or, or plants that are illegally taken
  • World Bank

    World Bank

    Provides loans and grants to low income countries to pursue capital projects
  • Environmental Protection Agency

    Environmental Protection Agency

    Agency tasked with handling environmental issues within the US
  • Delaney clause of food, drug, and cosmetic act

    Delaney clause of food, drug, and cosmetic act

    prohibits the addition to the human food supply of any chemical that has caused cancer
  • Clean air act

    Clean air act

    Defines EPA's responsibilities for protecting/improving the nations air quality and stratospheric ozone layer
  • National environmental policy act

    National environmental policy act

    To ensure federal agencies consider the environmental impacts of their actions
  • World Health Organization

    World Health Organization

    Specialized agency of the UN responsible for international public health
  • Occupational safety and health administration

    Occupational safety and health administration

    Regulator agency that originally had federal powers to examine/inspect workplaces
  • United Nations Environment Programme

    United Nations Environment Programme

    Responsible for coordinating responses to environmental issues within the united nations
  • Clean air act

    Clean air act

    Establishes basic structure for regulating pollutant discharges
  • Endangered Species Act

    Endangered Species Act

    Allows petition to have species listed as endangered or threatened
  • Safe drinking water act

    Safe drinking water act

    Maintains chemical, biological, and physical integrity of navigable waters
  • Convention on international trade in endangered species

    Convention on international trade in endangered species

    Multilateral treaty to protect endangered plants and animals
  • Resource conservation and recovery act

    Resource conservation and recovery act

    Gives EPA authority to control hazardous waste from cradle to grave
  • Surface mining and reclamation act

    Surface mining and reclamation act

    Provides policy/regulation of mining operations to minimize environmental impacts
  • Department of Energy

    Department of Energy

    Cabinet level department concerned with matter of federal energy policy and handling nuclear material
  • comprehensive environmental response, compensation, liability act

    comprehensive environmental response, compensation, liability act

    Provides federal superfund to clean up abandoned hazardous waste sites and environmental emergencies
  • Montreal Protocol

    Montreal Protocol

    Protect stratospheric ozone layer by phasing out production of chemicals that hurt ozone
  • Kyoto Protocol

    Kyoto Protocol

    Commits to transition to limit and reduce greenhouse gases emissions