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Environmental Laws and Agencies- Terry Dougherty

  • Lacey Act

    Lacey Act

    Laws trafficking in fish, wildlife, or plants are illegally taken, possessed, transported, or sold
  • World Bank

    World Bank

    The world bank is a finical institution that provides grants to low and middle class countries
  • World Health Organization

    World Health Organization

    WHO's primary goal is to direct international health within the United Nation's system and lead to its partners in health responses.
  • Delaney Clause of Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act

    Delaney Clause of Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act

    to ban food additives which were found to cause or induce cancer in humans or animals
  • National Environmental Policy Act

    National Environmental Policy Act

    Requires federal agencies to assess the survival effects of their proposal action
  • Environmental Protection Agency

    Environmental Protection Agency

    Protects people and the environment from significant health risk, sponsors and conduct research, and develops and enforces environmental regulation
  • Clean Air Act

    Clean Air Act

    The law that defines EPA's responsibilities for protecting and imprisoning the nation's air quality and stratospheric ozone
  • Occupational Safety and Health Administration

    Occupational Safety and Health Administration

    Assures safe and health for working conditions by setting and enforcing standards, and by providing training outreach, education, and assistance
  • United Nations Environment Programme

    United Nations Environment Programme

    The global authority that sets the environmental agenda
  • Clean Water Act

    Clean Water Act

    Establishes the basic structures for regulating discharges of pollutants into into U.S. water
  • Safe Drinking Water Act

    Safe Drinking Water Act

    To ensure safe drinking water for the public
  • Endangered Species Act

    Endangered Species Act

    Provides a framework to conserve and protect endangered and threatened species and their habitats both domestically and abroad
  • Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species

    Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species

    Ensure that international trade in animals and plants doesn't threaten their survival in the wild
  • Resource Conservation and Recovery Act

    Resource Conservation and Recovery Act

    It gives the EPA the authority to control hazardous waste from cradle to grave.
  • Surface Mining and Reclamation Act

    Surface Mining and Reclamation Act

    Prohibits surface coal mining within the boundaries of any National Parks system
  • Department of Energy

    Department of Energy

    Manages the United State's nuclear infrastructure and administrators the country's energy policy
  • Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, Liability Act or Superfund Act

    Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, Liability Act or Superfund Act

    provides a "superfund" to clean up uncontrolled or abandoned waste sites as well as accidents, spills, and other emergency releases of pollutants and containments into the environment
  • Montreal Protocol

    Montreal Protocol

    A treaty designed to protect the ozone layer by phasing out the production of numerous substances responsible for ozone depletion
  • Kyoto Protocol

    Kyoto Protocol

    Operationalizes the U.N. by committing industrialized countries and economics in transition to limit and reduce greenhouse gases