APES LAWS and Treaties

A United States federal law that set up the basic U.S. system of pesticide regulation to protect applicators, consumers, and the environment.

• Lacey Act

• FIFRA

• Wilderness Act

• . CERCLA

Created the National Wilderness Preservation System and recognized wilderness as “an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain.”

• National Parks Service Act

• Soil Conservation Act

• Antiquities Act

• Wilderness Act

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

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An international treaty designed to protect the ozone layer by phasing out the production of numerous substances that are responsible for ozone depletion. Cut CFCs in half.

• The Paris Accord

• The Montreal Protocol

• The Kyoto Meeting

• Resource Recovery Act

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An international treaty which extends the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that commits State Parties to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, based on the scientific consensusthat (a) global warming is occurring and (b) it is extremely likely that human-made CO2 emissions have predominantly caused it.

• The Montreal Protocol

• Global Warming Protocol

• The Paris Accord

• The Kyoto Meeting

This is the federal organization that ensures that all Americans are protected against specific hazards to the environment and human health where they learn, work and live.

• Department of Energy
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission
• Environmental Protection Agency
• Energy Policy Act

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Which act protects fish, shellfish, and wildlife in rivers, lakes, streams and oceans?

• Pollution Prevention Act
• Energy Independence and Security Act
• Energy Policy Act
• Clean Water Act

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In the 1970s, the United States introduced the _________________________ which calls for a recovery plan to be created for each endangered species.

• National Environmental Policy Act

• Resource Conservation and Recovery Act

• Clean Water Act

• Endangered Species Act

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Which of the following international treaties bans the hunting, capture, and sale of threatened or endangered species in 181 countries?

• Endangered Species Act (ESA)

• The National Marine Fisheries Act

• The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES)

• National Enviornmental Policy Act (NEPA)

• The Marine Mammal Protection Act

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This US Policy, Protects public drinking water supplies (surface waters and groundwater resources). Sets standards for drinking water quality.

• Clean Water Act

• Surface Water Act

• Safe Drinking Water Act

• Wild and Scenic Rivers Act