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Lacey Act
A law that bans trafficking of fish, wildlife or plants that are illegally taken, passed, transported, or sold. -
World Bank
The world bank is an international financial institution that provides loans and grants to the governments of low and middle income countries for the purpose of pursuing capital projects. -
Clean Water Act
This was put in to prevent, reduce and eliminate the amount of water pollution. It was also put in to help create clean drinking water for people. -
World health organization
The World Health Organization is a specialized agency of the Untied Nations responsible for international public health. -
Delaney Clause of Food, Drug and cosmetic act
This requires the food and drug administration to ban food additives which are found to cause or induce cancer in humans or animals as indicated by testing. -
Clean air act
The clean air act of 1963 was the first federal legislation regarding air pollution control. Its established a federal program within U.S. Public Health Service. -
National Environmental policy act
The national environmental policy act is a untied states environmental law that promotes the enhancement of the environmental and established the president council on environmental quality. -
Environmental Protection Agency
The environmental protection agency is an independent executive agency of the Untied States federal government tasked with environmental protection matters. -
occupational safety and Health Administration
the occupational safety and health administration is large regulatory agency of the untied Staes department of labor that originally had federal mistrial powers to inspect and examine workplaces. -
Untied Nation Environment Progamme
The Untied Nations Environment Progamme is responsible for coordinating responses to environmental issues within the Untied Nations systems. -
Endangered Species Act
A program for the conservation and protection of threatened and endangered plants and animals. -
Safe Drinking Water Act
The Safe drinking water act is the principal federal law in the Untied States intended to ensure safe drinking water for the public. -
Convention on international trade in endangered species
CITIES is a multilateral treaty to protect endangered plants and animals. It was drafted as a result of a resolution adopted in 1963 at a meeting of members of the international union for conservation of nature. -
Resource conservation and recovery act
The Resource conservation and recovery act enacted in 1976, is the principal federal law in the untied states governing the disposal of solid water and hazardous waste. -
Surface mining and reclamation act
This act provides a comprehensive surface mining and reclamation policy with the regulation of surface mining operations to assure environmental impacts are minimized and mined lands are reclaimed to a usable. -
Department of energy
The untied states department of energy is a cabinet-level department of the untied states government concerned with matters of deferral energy policy and safe handling of nuclear material. -
Comprehensive environmental response compensation liability act
The United States federal superfund law, established the federal superfund program administered by the environmental protection agency. -
Montreal Protocol
The Montreal protocol is an international treaty designed to protect the ozone layer by phasing out the production of numerous substances that are responsible for ozone depletion. -
Kyoto Protocol
An international agreement and authored to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and the presence of carbon in the atmosphere.