LAWS, LAWS & MORE LAWS REVIEW
PUT THESE FACTS ON INDEX CARDS..THE RED GOES ON ONE SIDE, THE BLACK ON THE OTHER.
MINING
1. Surface Mining Control & Reclamation Act:
requires coal strip mines to reclaim the land
2. Madrid Protocol: Moratorium on mineral
exploration for 50 years in Antarctica
3. Safe Drinking Water Act: set maximum
contaminant levels for pollutants that may have adverse effects on human health
WATER
4. Clean Water Act: set maximum permissible
amounts of water pollutants that can be discharged into waterways..aim to make
surface waters swimmable and fishable
5. Water Quality Act: attempt to reduce
non-point source pollution
6. Ocean Dumping Ban Act: bans ocean dumping
of sewage sludge & industrial waste in the ocean
AIR
7. Clean Air Act: Set emission standards for
cars, and limits for release of air pollutants
8. Kyoto Protocol: controlling global warming
by setting greenhouse gas emissions targets for developed countries
9. Montreal Protocol: phaseout of ozone
deleting substances
WASTE
10. Resource Conservation & Recovery Act:
controls hazardous waste with a cradle to grave system
11. Comprehensive Environmental Response,
Compensation & Liability Act: Superfund, designed to identify and
clean up abandoned hazardous waste dump sites
12. Low Level Radioactive Policy Act: all
states must have facilities to handle low level radioactive wastes
13. Nuclear Waste Policy Act: US government
must develop a high level nuclear waste site by 2015
LIFE
14. Endangered Species Act: identifies
threatened and endangered species in the US, and puts their protection ahead of
economic considerations
15. Convention on International Trade in Endangered
Species: lists species that cannot be commercially traded as live
specimens or wildlife products
16. Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, Rodenticide Act:
regulates the effectiveness of pesticides
17. Food Quality Protection Act: set
pesticide limits in food, & all active and inactive ingredients must be
screened for estrogenic/endocrine effects
18. National Environmental Policy Act:
Environmental Impact Statements must be done before any project affecting
federal lands can be started