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This act prohibited the use of any food additive that had been found to cause cancer in humans or animals. it aimed to protect public health by ensuring the safety of food additives. -
The Clean Air Act aims to control air pollution and protect public health and the environment. It is a federal law that regulates air emissions from stationary and mobile sources. -
The Clean Water Act aimed to restore and maintain the water quality of the nation's waterways. It aims to prevent, reduce, and eliminate pollution in the nation's water and was the first major U.S. law to address water pollution. -
This is an international agreement between governments. It aims to ensure that international trade in specimens of wild animals and plants doesn't threaten their survival. -
This act provides for the conservation of threatened and endangered plants and animals and the habitats in which they are found. It ensures that fish, wildlife, plants, and mammals that are threatened are protected. -
This act established national standards for drinking water quality and protected public health by regulating the nation's public drinking water supply. There should beno unsafe chemicals or harmful substances in the drinking water. -
RCRA established a framework for the proper management of solid and hazardous waste from cradle to grave. They also ensure the waste's safe disposal and encouraging resource conservation and recovery. -
This act provides a federal "superfund" to clean up uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous-waste sites as well as accidents, spills, and other emergency releases of pollutants and contaminants into the environment. They ensure that harmful substances are contained. -
The Montreal Protocol is an international agreement designed to protect the ozone layer. This was done by stopping the production and consumption of ozone- depleting substances. Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) is one ozone-depleting substance. -
The Kyoto Protocol is an international agreement that calls for industrialized countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This was an effort to help slow global warming and climate change.