Environmental Legislation

In 2016 the Kilgali Amendment was added to the Montreal Protocol treaty. It banned another substance which was harming the atmosphere. What substance was that?

• HFCs

• CFCs

• NOx

• CO₂

This policy is voluntary enforced and was enacted in 1987

• Montreal Protocol

• Kyoto Protocol

• CITES

• Paris agreement

Incentive type of agreement (Cap-and-trade), enacted in 1997.

• Kyoto Protocol

• CITES

• Paris Agreement

• Montreal Protocol

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NGSS.HS-ESS3-6

The goal of this agreement is to slow global warming by reducing human-made greenhouse gas emission.

• CITES

• Kyoto Protocol

• Paris Agreement

• Montreal Protocol

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NGSS.HS-ESS3-5

In this treaty, the countries that are unable to meet the agreed upon restrictions, they can purchase emission allowance by paying a developing country to help them reduce the emissions.

• Montreal Protocol

• CITES

• Paris Agreement

• Kyoto Protocol

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NGSS.HS-ETS1-3

What agency oversees and enforces the Endangered Species Act?

• Congress

• Department of the Interior

• US Fish and Wildlife

• Bureau of Indian Affairs

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NGSS.HS-LS4-5

What decade was the endangered species act signed into law?

• 1960s

• 1970s

• 1980s

• 1990s

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NGSS.HS-LS2-7

NGSS.HS-LS4-5

Requires minimum safety standards for community water supplies

• Safe Drinking Water Act

• Clean Water Act

• Clean Air Act

• Resource Conservation Recovery Act

Passed in 1976 to regulate solid and hazardous waste disposal

• Superfund Act

• Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)

• Clean Water Act

• Clean Air Act

Cradle-to-grave law for describes rules for the proper handling of hazardous and toxic waste

• The EPA

• Clean Air Act

• Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, RCRA

• Recylcing Act