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15 Cards in this Set
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Surgace Mining Control and Reclamation Act
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It requires coal strip mines to reclaim the land
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Madrid Protocol
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Calls a halt on mineral exploration for 50 years in Antartica
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Safe Drinking Water Act
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It set the maximum contaminant levels for pollutants that may have adverse effects on human health in drinking water
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Clean Water Act
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It set the maximum permissible amounts of water pollutants that can be discharged into waterways.
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Ocean Dumping Ban Act
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It bans dumping of sewage sludge and industrial waste in the ocean
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Clean Air Act
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It set emission standatds for cars and limits for the releas of air pollutants
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Kyto Protocol
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Controlling global warming by setting greenhouse gas emissions
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Montreal Protocol
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Phaseout of ozone depleting substances
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Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
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It controls hazardous waste with a cradle to grabe system
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Comprehensive Environmental Responce, Compensation and Liability Act
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Superfund, designed to identify and clean up abandoned hazardous waste dump sites
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Nuclear Waste Policy Act
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United States Government must develop a high level nuclear waste site by 2015
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Endangered Species Act
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It identifies threatened and endangered species in the United States, and it puts thier portection ahead of economic considerations
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Magnuson-Stevens Act
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Management of marine fisheries
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Food Quality Protection Act
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It sets pesticide limits in food, and all active and inactive ingrediencts must be screened for estrogenic/endocrine effects
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National Environmental Policy Act
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Environmental Impact Statements must be done before any project affecting federal lands can be started
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