Environmental Law

US Right-To-Know Act, regarding the presence and safety of hazardous chemicals

• RCRA

• TOSCA

• FIFRA

• EPCRA

Superfund Law: Used to clean-up abandoned toxic waste sites, such as Brownfields and old gas stations

• TOSCA: Toxic Substances Control Act

• CERCLA: Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, & Liability Act

• RCRA: Resource Conservation & Recovery Act

• FIFRA: Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, & Rodenticide Act

First started under FDR, this law was a response to the Dust Bowl, as an effort to stop massive soil erosion on farms

• Clean Water Act

• NPDES

• Soil Conservation & Soil/Water Conservation Acts

• FIFRA

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A coal company removes a mountain top to get the coal underneath and then must make it look like it was before the removal. Which law forces this?

• Mining Act

• NPDES: National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System

• Soil Conservation & Soil/Water Conservation Acts

• SMCRA: Surface Mining Control & Reclamation Act

Law that protects polar bears, whales, otters, seals, walruses, sea lions & other warm-blooded air breathers that like the water

• MMPA: Marine Mammal Protection Act

• The Greenpeace Act

• Stockholm Agreement

• CITES: Conference on the International Trade in Endangered Species

• ESA: Endangered Species Act

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US Law that monitors the testing & safety of pesticides, such as rodenticides, insecticides, & fungicides

• RCRA

• TOSCA

• FIFRA

• EPCRA

Which act established a national policy and goals for the protection, maintenance, and enrichment of the environment?

• Clean Air Act

• National Environmental Policy Act

• Energy Independence and Security Act

• Energy Policy Act

What does EPA stand for?

• Environmental Project Act

• Environmental Protection Agency

• Environmental Potential Agency

• Environmental Protection Academy

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True or False: The Clean Air Act was created as part of the EPA to improve air quality in the United States.

• True

• False

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What US agency might not have ever been formed if Rachel Carson had not written Silent Spring?

• USDEA

• USEPA

• USCDC

• USFDA

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