Environmental Legislation

This legislation was made to control ___ pollution on a national level in 1963.

• Clean Air Act

• CERCLA

• Clean Water Act

• CITES

The Clean Air Act was made to...

• Was made to try and reduce the amount of acid pollution.

• Reduce the emissions of sulfur dioxide and oxides of nitrogen.

• Reduction of toxic pollutants

• Limit air pollutants from chemical plants, utilities, and steel mills.

an agreement that attempted to regulate greenhouse gas emissions

• Kyoto Protocol

• Nature Conservancy

• CITES

• sustainability

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an agreement regulating the trade of threatened or endangered species

• Kyoto Protocol

• Nature Conservancy

• CITES

• sustainability

Why did the United States choose not to sign the Kyoto Protocol?

• The United States was not part of treaty negotiations

• The terms of the treaty were considered too strict.

• It was considered costly and contained inconsistent requirements for different nations.

• The United States does not sign international agreements.

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The Montreal Protocol was successful in reducing

• ozone-destroying chemicals.

• pollution at sea.

• green house-gas emissions

• whale harvests.

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Known also as Superfund. It was passed in 1980 in response to some alarming and decidely unacceptable hazardous waste practices and management going on in the 1970s.

• CERCLA

• Resource Conservation Recovery Act

• The Montreal Protocol

• Atomic Energy Act

The act to prevent extinction, recover imperiled plants and animals, and protect the ecosystems on which they depend upon is called...

• The Fossil Fuel Burning Act of 2000

• Congressional Bill 78655

• The Endangered Species Act of 1973

• Project Save

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_____________________ of 1974 was the first federal law mandating drinking-water standards for all public water systems, from big cities to roadside campgrounds”

• Clean Water Act

• Safe Water Drinking Act

• Montreal Protocol

• CITES

_____________ gives EPA the authority to control hazardous waste from the "cradle-to-grave.

• CERCLA

• CITES

• RCRA

• SWDA