Environmental Policies

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  • Lacey Act

    Limited hunting, Saved endangered species. Harvesting trees.

  • national Environmental Policy

    NEPT

  • federal insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide

    enforced by the EPA. protects environment. makes sure things have labels and have more control over it.

  • Clean Air Act

    ensures to keep pollutants out of the air.

  • Occupational Safety and Health Act

    Designed to save lives in the work place and prevent injuries.

  • Declaration of the Conference on the Human Environment

    Ensuring sustainability.

  • Edangered Species Act

    Prtect land that animals live on or endangered species specifically.

  • Toxic Substance Control Act

    EPA can test for chemicals in manufactured goods.

  • International Trade in Edangered Species

    Ban on trading endangered species

  • Emergency Planning and community Right to Know Act

    PUblic deserves to know when there is an emergency,

  • Clean Water Act

    regulates pollution in water. Helps water stay clean and safe.

  • Convention on the Law of the Sea

    replaced the original

  • Convention of Ozone Depletion and the Montreal Protocol

    Helps Ozone. there is a treaty involved with this.

  • Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act

    Makes sure food is good for you, effectiveness of drugs, and makes sure cosmetics are good to use.

  • CERCLA

    EPO enforced it. a lake caught on fire four times which sparked the idea for this plan. This policy prohibits the leaking of hazardous wastes or pullutants.

  • The OPA

    Ensures no oil to get out. In ocean on land tries to keep it free from oil.

  • Safe Drinking Water Act

    Ensured quality of drinking water for U.S. EPA enforced it. The test results of 36 industrial pollutants in one lake is what pushed this policy.

  • Food Quality Protection Act

    Enforced by EPA. Ensures noticieds in food especailly baby food. encourages safer pesticides

  • Convention of Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocal

    Reduced green house gases. Penalties put in place. Enforced by the United Nations.