Environmental Policy

By dclipp4

  • Lacey Act

    This act protected endangered species. It restricted hunters in order to conserve animal populations and restricted deforestation.

  • Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act

    This act aimed to provide Americans with safer food, drugs, and other products. This regulated the sale and use of materials made for consumption.

  • Clean Air Act

    This act was designed to help air pollution. It regulated emissions into the air.

  • National Environmental Policy Act

    This act was designed to protect people and the environment. It aimed to maintain conditions so that people and the environment could maintain a harmonic relationship.

  • Occupational Safety and Health Act

    This was designed to promote worker safety. It made laws that promote safety rather than productivity.

  • Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide

    This was designed for the safety of the people. It regulated chemicals and other substances used around the house.

  • Declaration of the Conference on the Human Environment

    This policy was designed to insure the sustainability of the environment.

  • Endangered Species Act

    THis act was designed to protect endangered species. It also encouraged biodiversity.

  • Convention on International Trade for Endangered Species

    This was to protect endangered species. It placed a ban on trade of any endangered species, internationally.

  • Safe Drinking Water Act

    This policy was drafted because safe drinking water needed to be more readily available. It was installed to ensure the quality of drinking water for Americans.

  • Toxic Substances Control Act

    This was a safety measure that was taken in order to protect humans and their water. It gave the EPA the right to examine any chemical that was thought to be harmful.

  • Clean Water Act

    This act was created to help control water pollution. The act regulated the discharge of wastes into bodies of water.

  • Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act

    This was created to control pollution and careless discharge of hazardous waste. It was drafted after a river in Ohio caught on fire. It aimed to prevent the release of hazardous waste materials and respond to environmental emergencies.

  • Convention on the Law of the Sea

    This was installed to protect international waters. It governed oceans, the transfer of wealth. This was not voted on by the United States Senate.

  • Emergency Planning & Community Right-To-Know Act

    This act was drafted to protect the community's health. It required local authorities to tell people about environmental dangers when they arise.

  • Convention of Ozone Depletion and the Montreal Protocol

    This was installed to prevent the depletion of the ozone layer. It aimed to reduce ozone layer emissions and implemented a way to help it recover.

  • Oil Pollution Act

    This act was designed to prevent oil spills. It required companies to have a plan for preventing oil spills in the ocean.

  • Food Quality Protection Act

    This act was installed to protect the people and their health. It set a higher standard for food quality and regulated pesticides.

  • Convention of Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol

    This was designed to reduce emissions in the air. It placed heavy burdens on more developed nations who polluted more.