APES Laws
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23 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Surface Mining Control & Reclamation Act | requires coal strip mines to reclaim the land |
| Madrid Protocol | Moratorium on mineral exploration for 50 years in Antarctica |
| Safe Drinking Water Act | set maximum contaminant levels for pollutants that may have adverse effects on human health |
| Clean Water Act | set maximum permissible amounts of water pollutants that can be discharged into waterways..aim to make surface waters swimmable and fishable |
| Water Quality Act | attempt to reduce non-point source pollution |
| Ocean Dumping Ban Act | bans ocean dumping of sewage sludge & industrial waste |
| National Environmental Policy Act | Environmental Impact Statements must be done before any project affecting federal lands can be started |
| Clean Air Act | Set emission standards for cars, and limits for release of air pollutants |
| Kyoto Protocol | controlling global warming by setting greenhouse gas emissions targets for developed countries |
| Montreal Protocol | phaseout of ozone deleting substances |
| Resource Conservation & Recovery Act | controls hazardous waste with a cradle to grave system |
| Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation & Liability Act | Superfund, designed to identify and clean up abandoned hazardous waste dump sites |
| Endangered Species Act | identifies threatened and endangered species in the US, and puts their protection ahead of economic considerations |
| Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species | lists species that cannot be commercially traded as live specimens or wildlife products |
| Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, Rodenticide Act | regulates the effectiveness of pesticides |
| Food Quality Protection Act | set pesticide limits in food, & all active and inactive ingredients must be screened for estrogenic/endocrine effects |
| Low Level Radioactive Policy Act | all states must have facilities to handle low level radioactive wastes |
| Nuclear Waste Policy Act | US government must develop a high level nuclear waste site by 2015 |
| Migratory Bird Treaty Act | prohibits shooting non-game migratory birds |
| Wilderness Act | recognizes wilderness areas and strives to preserve them by keeping them road and development free |
| Delaney Clause | prohibits adding cancer causing agents to food |
| Agenda 21 | UN program to make development environmentally and socially sustainable in the 21st century (sustainable development) |
| London Dumping Convention (Law of the Sea) | international agreement banning ocean dumping of plastics, oil and industry waste |
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