Environmental Acts and Conservationists

Also called “Superfund Act”, forces companies to be responsible for dumping toxic waste

• Clean Air Act

• Food Quality Protection Act

• Kyoto Protocol

• Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act

“Father of the National Parks”; advocate for preserving wilderness

• Theodore Roosevelt

• John Muir

• Rachel Carson

• Ana Pérez-Quintero

Changed attitudes about the Everglades from a worthless swamp to a treasured river

• Wangari Maathai

• Vandana Shiva

• Rachel Carson

• Marjory Stoneman Douglas

Regulates point and nonpoint pollution in surface water.

• Clean Air Act

• Clean Water Act

• Kyoto Protocol

• Safe Drinking Water Act

Early 20th-century president who founded the forest service, built many national monuments and expanded our national forests

• Theodore Roosevelt

• John Muir

• Rachel Carson

• Ana Pérez-Quintero

The activist who started the Greenbelt Movement in Kenya

• Wangari Maathai

• Al Gore

• Rachel Carson

• Ana Pérez-Quintero

Sets and regulates the standards for pesticide use on crops.

• Clean Air Act

• Food Quality Protection Act

• Clean Water Act

• Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act

Silent Spring author; warned public about long-term effects of misusing pesticides

• Wangari Maathai

• Al Gore

• Rachel Carson

• Ana Pérez-Quintero

International treaty in which nations agreed to reduce greenhouse emissions

• Clean Air Act

• Food Quality Protection Act

• Kyoto Protocol

• Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act

Set quality standards for levels of particulate matter, ozone, carbon monoxide and other pollutants

• Clean Air Act

• Resource Conservation and Recovery Act

• Clean Water Act

• Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act