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18 Cards in this Set
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Surface Mining Control & Reclamation Act |
Requires coal strip mines to reclaim the land |
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Madrid Protocol |
Moratorium on mineral exploration for 50 years in Antarctica |
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Safe Drinking Water Act |
Set maximum contaminant levels for pollutants that they may have adverse effects on human health |
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Clean Water Act |
Set maximum permissible amounts of water pollutants that can be discharged into waterways...aim to make surface waters swimmable and fishable |
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Water Quality Act |
Attempt to reduce the non-point source pollution |
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Ocean Dumping Ban Act |
Bans ocean dumping of sewage, sludge, and industrial waste in the ocean |
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Clean Air Act |
Set emission standards for cars, and limits for release of air pollutants |
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Kyoto Protocol |
Controlling global warming by setting greenhouse gas emissions targets for developed countries |
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Montreal Protocol |
Phaseout of ozone depleting substances |
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Resource Conservation & Recovery Act |
Controls hazardous waste with cradle to grave system |
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Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act |
Superfund, designed to identify and clean up abandoned hazardous waste dump sites |
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Low Level Radioactivity Policy Act |
All states must have facilities to handle low level radioactive wastes |
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Nuclear Waste Policy Act |
US government must develop a high nuclear waste site by 2015 |
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Endangered Species Act |
Identifies threatened and endangered species in the US, and puts their protection ahead of economic considerations |
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Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species |
Lists species that cannot be commercially traded as live specimens or wildlife products |
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Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, Rodenticide Act |
Regulates the effectiveness of pesticides |
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Food Quality Protection Act |
Set pesticide limits in food and all active and inactive ingredients must be screened for estrogenic/endocrine effects |
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National Environmental Policy Act |
Environmental Impact Statements must be done before ans project affecting federal lands can be started |
