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Delaney Clause of Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act
It states that no cancer causing agent, as demonstrated in humans or animals, shall be deliberately added to, or formed as a contaminant in food. It requires the FDA to ban food additives. -
Clean Air Act
This act aims to control air pollution and influence air quality. It sets standards for emissions from industries and vehicles promotes research in air pollution. -
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
Sets national goal for protecting human health and the natural environment from potential hazards of waste disposal. It also conserves energy and natural resources to ensure management waste. -
Clean Water Act
The private law governing pollution control and water quality. The objective of the Clean water act is to restore and maintain the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of nations water. -
Endangered Species Act
This act conserves and protects endangered species and their habitats. The act has proven to be effective in stabilizing populations of species at risk, preventing extinction of others, and saving habitats. -
Safe Drinking Water Act
This allows states to set standards which are more stringent than the federal standards, and to issue standards for contaminates that's the EPH has not regulated. -
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species
It regulates and monitors the trade of endangered species. Its main goal is to ensure trade doesn't hurt wild animals. -
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, Liability Act
It cleans up dangerous waste sites and makes sure those responsible for pollution will be responsible for paying for the clean up. -
Montreal Protocol
The protocol is a multi-year environmental agreement that regulates the production and consumption of nearly 100 man made chemicals. These chemicals damage the ozone layer when we need to protect us from UV. -
Kyoto protocol
It sets binding emissions reduction targets for 37 industrialized countries and economics in transition.