Environmental Legislation

What do you think NAAQs stand for?

• National Action Air Quality Standards

• National Ambient Air Quality Specialization

• National Accepted Air Quality Standards

• National Ambient Air Quality Standards

CAA has helped up to ________avoided premature deaths annually (EPA report 2015)

• 200,000

• 550,000

• 150,000

• 370,000

Requires maximum level of contaminants (MCLs) to meet safety regulations for community tap water supplies

• Clean Water Act

• Kyoto Protocol

• Montreal Protocol

• Safe Drinking Water Act

Mandates the restoration and maintenance of the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the nation's waters

• Safe Drinking Water Act

• Clean Water Act

• Clean Air Act

• Resource Conservation Recovery Act

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The federal law that mandates the clean surface water in the US is called the

• Clean Water Act

• National Water Act

• Federal Law for Clean Water

• Healthy Water Law

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The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) and the Convention on Biological Diversity are examples of

• organizations that promote poaching.

• international organisation on climate change.

• international treaties to protect biodiversity.

• laws to increase the number of species

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Which would be a violation of the CITES treaty?

• hunting wild turkeys

• polluting lakes

• selling tiger skins

• clearing rain forests

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Who is in charge of making a list of  all endangered or threatened species?

• the U.S. President

• USDA

• US Fish & Wildlife Service

• DCFS

Municipal wastewater treatment systems must abide by the ___ in order to protect the environment from human waste pollution.

• Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA)

• Clean Water Act

• Montreal Protocol

• Clean Air Act

• Safe Drinking Water Act

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Law that makes it illegal to carry endangered species or their parts over international borders

• Montreal Protocol

• Kyoto Protocol

• Stockholm Agreement

• CITES

• ESA

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