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This law authorizes and governs prospecting and mining for economic minerals, such as gold, platinum, and silver on public lands.
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This act allowed the President to set aside forest reserves from the land in the public domain.
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This act banned trafficking in illegal wildlife. One of the earliest laws in the United States. Prohibits transport of illegally harvested game animals across state lines.
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This act established that archaeological sites on public lands are important public resources.
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This act was set up to set the basic system of pesticide regulation to protect the people that produce it and use it, as well as the environment.
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This act established the National Park Service to protect national park lands, which is a part of the United States Department of the Interior.
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This act implemented the convention for the protection of migratory birds between the United States and Great Britain.
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This act provides the authority for the involvement of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in evaluating impacts to fish and wildlife from proposed water resource development projects.
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This act is also called the "Duck Stamp Act" and requires each waterfowl hunter that is at least 16 years old to have a valid Federal hunting stamp.
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This act is a federal law that provides for the regulation of grazing on public lands, except for Alaska, to improve rangeland conditions and regulate their use.
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This act was aimed at fighting soil erosion and preserve natural resources such as soil.
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This law gave authority to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to oversee the safety of foods, drugs, and cosmetics.
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This act authorized the Public Health Services to create programs to eliminate the pollution of interstate waters and improve the sanitary condition of surface and underground water. It would later be amended in the Clean Water Act in 1972.
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This organization keeps a list of threatened species, which is called the Red List.
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This act is a U.S. federal law that has been renewed many times since its first passing. It governs liability-related issues for all non-military nuclear industries that were built in the United States before 2026.
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This treaty set limits on activities that can occur on the continent of Antarctica and restricts military activity and prohibits the storage of nuclear waste of nuclear devices.
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This act created the National Wilderness Preservation System and created the legal definition of wilderness, which protected its natural conditions.
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This act was actually a fund program established to provide funds and grants to all governments for the acquisition of land and water, for the benefit for every American.
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This act provides plans to formulate and evaluate water related land resource projects and to maintain a continuing assessment of adequacy of water supplies in the U.S.
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This act is the federal law in the U.S. governing the disposal of solid waste and hazardous waste.
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This act is a federal law that regulates air emissions from stationary and mobile sources. It was designed to control air pollution on a national level.
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This act protects rivers with due to aesthetic, recreational, wildlife, historical, or cultural reasons.
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Environmental Assessments and Environmental Impact Statements must be done before any project affecting federal lands can be started.
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This act established a major research program to develop new ways of dealing with solid waste. It would eventually lead to the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act in 1976.
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This act ensures that employers provide workers with an environment free from dangers to their safety and/or health.
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Agreement about environmental principles and the anthropogenic effects on the environment. Considered the need for a common outlook in the preservation and enhancement of the human environment.
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This was an amended act from the Water Pollution Control Act in 1948. The amendments added were the establishment of the basic structure for regulate pollutant discharges into the water and giving the EPA authority to implement pollution control programs.
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This act prohibits the killing of all marine mammals in the United States and prohibits the import and export of any marine mammal body parts.
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This act establishes more sanctuaries in the US to protect the habitat of marine animals and plants from pollution and development.
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This act gives permission to the CPSC to develop safety standards and recalls for products that are risks for injury or death to consumers. It also allows them to ban those certain products.
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An international agreement between 175 countries that controls the international trade of threatened plants and animals.
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This was an agreement among 175 countries to regulate species that may become endangered because of international trade.
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This act provided for the conservation of species that are endangered or threatened and the conservation of the ecosystems in which they depend. Authorizes the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to determine which species can be listen as threatened or endangered. Prohibits the harming and trading of these species. Authorizes government to purchase habitat that is critical to the species.
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This act mandates periodic assessments of forests and rangelands in the US, directs that the assessment be conducted by the US Forest Service and consider a wide range of renewable resources, and rate the forest on how well it's doing.
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This act was established to protect the quality of drinking water in the United States. The EPA sets standards for the drinking water in order to protect the drinking water supplies.
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This act allows the EPA to screen chemicals for toxicity, track industrial chemicals produced and imported into the US, and screens chemicals and can report those that seem hazardous.
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This act set the first regulations for the generation, transportation, and disposal of hazardous waste. There was a tracking system that tracked hazardous waste from manufacture to disposal.
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This act requires coal strip mines to reclaim the land and regulates the environmental impacts of coal mining in the U.S.
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This act was a legislative response to the energy crisis in 1973. It included the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act. Energy Tax Act, National Energy Conservation Policy Act, Power Plant and Industrial Fuel Use Act, and Natural Gas Policy Act.
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This act requires the US Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management to develop management guidelines for public lands.
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This act stated that all states must have facilities to handle low-level radioactive wastes.
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This act established Superfund, which is a program that pays for the cleanup of sites that are contaminated with hazardous substances and pollutants.
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This act states that the US government must develop a high nuclear waste by 2015.
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This agreement sets rules for the use of the world's ocean use, navigation rights, research, protection of marine environment, and restricts overfishing.
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Requires information to be shared about chemical facilities and the use of chemicals.
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This act aims to reduce the amount of garbage ships dump into the ocean. It also prohibits the dumping of all plastics by ships into the sea.
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This law is an international agreement to reduce production and consumption of ozone-depleting substances.
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This act bans ocean dumping of sewage sludge and industrial waste.
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This act required the U.S. to create a national policy to have pollution prevented or reduced at the source.
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This act requires companies to make a plan to prevent spills that may occur.
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This act established provisions that expand the federal government's ability, and provide the money and resources, to respond to oil spills.
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This convention established a treaty to protect biodiversity. The three main goals were sustainable use, conservation, and equitably share the benefits that emerge from the commercial use of the resources.
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Provides federal support for renewable energy technology, establishes commercial building codes, and establishes efficiency standards for heating and cooling equipment.
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Universal education by 2015, reduction of infant and child mortality, reduction of maternal mortality, access to reproductive and sexual health services including family planning.
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This act set pesticide limits in food and all ingredients must be screened for estrogen and endocrine effects.
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This act gave guidelines and directives for administration and management of all areas in the National Wildlife Refuge system.
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This international agreement was with binding targets for industrialized countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. It requires the emissions to be monitored and recorded in log and places more significant burden on developed nations.
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This act requires that 1/3 of the national forest system's total acreage to be off-limits to all road building and logging.
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This law was an addition to the Antarctic Treaty. It required assessments of possible environmental effects of any activities and required the development of plans outlining responses to environmental emergencies and prohibits mining. It also prohibits the introduction of non-native species.
