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It provides the basis for regulation, sale, distribution and use of pesticides in the U.S. FIFRA authorizes EPA to review and register pesticides for specified uses.
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A series of environmental acts and committees to control environmental alteration caused by humans.
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The first federal attempt to control air pollution.
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It requires the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to develop and enforce regulations to protect the public from airborne contaminants known to be hazardous to human health.
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It is a 1965 amendment to the U.S. Clean Air Act of 1963, to further reduce air pollution also may be another name for the Motor Vehicle Air Pollution Control Act.
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It was set in 1965 and amendment to the U.S. Clean Air Act of 1970; called for a 72% reduction of hydrocarbons, 56% reduction of carbon monoxide, and a 100% reduction of crankcase hydrocarbons from light duty vehicles and reductions of several 1963-base emissions.
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The original goal of the Clean Water Act was to eliminate the discharge of untreated waste water from municipal and industrial sources and thus make American waterways safe for swimming and fishing.
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It was part of an amendment to the clean air act, was the first federal law that required environmentally sound methods for disposal of household, municipal, commercial, and industrial waste.
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It prevents urbanization and defined wilderness area for benefit of Americans so that areas will not be effected by man and may contain ecological, geological, or other features of scientific, educational, scenic, or historical value.
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It’s a regulatory agency that tries to maintain air quality in California.
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It is a comprehensive Federal law that regulates all sources of air emissions.
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It required two annual inspections of every surface coal mine and four at every underground coal mine, and dramatically increased federal enforcement powers in coal mines. Also required monetary penalties for all violations, and established criminal penalties for knowing and willful violations plus health care and compensation for coal dust inhalation “black lung”.
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It requires federal agencies to integrate environmental values into their decision making processes by considering the environmental impacts of their proposed actions and reasonable alternatives to those actions.
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It was enacted relating to the prevention, abatement, and control of environmental pollution, water and land resources, transportation, and economic and regional development.
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It requires employers that their employees do not work near or around recognized hazards.
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The prohibition against future use of lead-based paint.
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The restoration and maintenance of chemical, physical and biological integrity of Nation’s waters.
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It established the basic structure for regulating discharges of pollutants into the waters of the United States and regulating quality standards for surface waters.
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It is to protect and if possible help recover species that are near extinction.
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Act protects public health by regulating the nation's public drinking water supply.
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Act regulates the transportation of hazardous materials.
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It regulates waste disposal and management.
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It provided the EPA with authority to require reporting, record-keeping and testing requirements, and restrictions relating to chemical substances and or mixtures. It excludes food, drugs, cosmetics and pesticides.
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Is the primary federal law that regulates the environmental effects of coalmining in the United States.
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Is a part of national energy act; required federal agencies to perform energy surveys in order to reduce consumption of nonrenewable energy resources in buildings, vehicles, equipment, and general operation. It enabled the government to give loans to families for the purchase and installation of solar heating or cooling equipment.
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It was a law that taxed the chemical and petroleum industries and provided broad Federal authority to respond directly to releases or threatened releases of hazardous substances.
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It created a tax on the chemical and petroleum industries and provided broad Federal authority to respond directly to releases or threatened releases of hazardous substances that may endanger public health or the environment.
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A federal legislation providing protection and management of non-game fish and wildlife for ecological, educational, esthetic, cultural, recreational, economic and scientific value.
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It supports the use of deep geologic repositories for the safe storage and/or disposal of radioactive waste.
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Passed in response to concerns regarding the environmental and safety hazards posed by the storage and handling of toxic chemicals.
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It was designed to reduce the production and consumption of ozone depleting substances in order to reduce their abundance in the atmosphere. It was agreed on 16 September 1987 and entered into force on 1 January 1989 by the UN.
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It tried to reduce car emissions, ozone depletion, and acid rain.
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This multilateral environmental agreement regulates the import and export of hazardous waste among the Parties to it, and establishes legal obligations to ensure that such wastes are managed in an environmentally sound manner.
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The regulations on the use of lead-based paint in housing.
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Its purpose is to increase the efficiency and fairness of trade among the three nations. It also means each country has so-called side agreements that each nation enforces its own labor and environmental laws.
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Its purpose is to focus federal attention on the environmental and human health effects of federal actions on minority and low-income populations with the goal of achieving environmental protection for all communities.
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It authorizes the Federal surface transportation programs for highways, highway safety, and transit for the 6-year period 1998-2003; enacted June 9, 1998.
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Is the first legislation in the world to regulates greenhouse gas emissions from passenger vehicles.
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It was adopted in Kyoto, Japan, on 11 December 1997 and entered into force on 16 February 2005, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from industrialized nations.
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A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA): this legislation invests in funding for highways, highway safety and public transportation.
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Its aims was to improve vehicle fuel economy and reduce U.S. dependence on petroleum. EISA includes provisions to increase the supply of renewable alternative fuel sources by setting a mandatory Renewable Fuel Standard, which requires transportation fuel sold in the United States to contain a minimum of 36 billion gallons of renewable fuels annually by 2022.
