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Combats trafficking of illegally taken wildlife, fish or plants. -
Providing technical and financial assistance to developing countries with the objectives of reducing poverty and promoting growth. -
Dedicated to the improvement of human health by monitoring and assessing health trends and providing medical advice to countries. -
Requires the FDA to ban food additives which are found to cause or induce cancer in humans or animals as indicated by testing. -
Oversees all governmental efforts related to the environment, including science, research, assessment and education. -
Responsible for the enforcement of health and safety regulations. -
Comprehensive federal law that regulates all sources of air emissions. -
UNEP uses its expertise to strengthen environmental standards and practices while helping implement environmental obligations at the country, regional and global levels. -
Establishes the basic structure for regulating discharges of pollutants into the waters of the United States and regulating quality standards for surface waters. -
International agreement signed by 184 parties in 1973, designed to ensure that international trade in animals and plants does not threaten their survival in the wild. -
The primary law in the US for promoting imperiled species. -
The principal federal law in the United States intended to ensure safe drinking water for the public. -
Gives EPA the authority to control hazardous waste from cradle to grave. -
The primary federal law that regulates the environmental effects of coal mining in the Unites States. -
An executive department of the US federal government that oversees US National energy policy and manages the research and development of nuclear power and nuclear weapons in the US. -
Provides a federal "superfund" to cleanup uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous waste sites as well as accidents, spills, and other emergency releases of pollutants and contaminants into the environment. -
A global agreement to protect the stratospheric ozone layer by phasing out the production and consumption of ozone-depleting substances. -
An international treaty which extended that 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change that commits state parties to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.