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Forest Reserve Act of 1891
The Forest Reserve is a law that allowed the President to be able to set aside land for forest reserves from public demand. This law was signed into affect Bejamin Harrison. -
Lacey Act
The Lacey Act is a United States law that bans trafficking in illegal wildlife. -
The Antiquities Act
The Antiquities Act gives the President of the United States the authority to, by presidential proclamation, create national monuments from federal lands to protect significant natural, cultural, or scientific features. -
Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act
Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act is the federal law that set up the basic U.S. system of pesticide regulation to protect applicators, consumers, and the environment. -
National Park Service
The National Park Service Act is a United States federal law that established the National Park Service (NPS), an agency of the United States Department of the Interior. -
Migratory Bird Act
The Migratory Bird Act makes it illegal for anyone to take, possess, import, export, transport, sell, purchase, barter, or offer for sale, purchase, or barter, any migratory bird, or the parts, nests, or eggs of such a bird except under the terms of a valid permit issued pursuant to Federal regulations. -
Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp Act
The Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp Act, or the "Duck Stamp Act," as this March 16, 1934, authority is commonly called, requires each waterfowl hunter 16 years of age or older to possess a valid Federal hunting stamp. A contest is held each year by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to select the design of the stamp. -
Taylor Grazing Act
The Taylor Grazing Act is a United States federal law that provides for the regulation of grazing on the public lands (excluding Alaska) to improve rangeland conditions and regulate their use. -
Soil Conservation Act of 1935
In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an act to help soil conservation and preserve natural resources. It aimed towards improving public help and relieve unemployment. -
International Union of the Conservation of Nature
IUCN'S vision is a just world that values and conserves nature. The IUCN keeps a list of threatened species, known as the red list. -
Water Pollution Control Act
The Water Pollution Control Act authorized the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service, in cooperation with other Federal, state and local entities, to prepare comprehensive programs for eliminating or reducing the pollution of interstate waters and tributaries and improving the sanitary condition of surface and underground waters. -
Price-Anderson Act
The Price-Anderson Act is a key part of the nuclear industry. This law limits the amount of insurance nuclear power plant owners must carry and caps their liability in the event of a catastrophic accident or attack at dollar amounts that fall far, far short of the actual financial consequences that could be incurred. -
Wilderness Act
The Wilderness Act created the National Wilderness Preservation System and recognized wilderness as “an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain. -
Land and Water Conservation Act
The Land and Water Conservation Fund was established by Congress in 1964 to fulfill a bipartisan commitment to safeguard our natural areas, water resources, and cultural heritage, and to provide recreation opportunities to all Americans. Using zero taxpayer dollars, the fund invests earnings from offshore oil and gas leasing to help strengthen communities, preserve our history and protect our national endowment of lands and waters. -
Resource Recovery Act
The Resource Recovery Act established a major research program, run by the EPA, to develop new and innovative ways of dealing with solid waste -
Marine Mammal Protection Act
Prohibits the killing of all marine mammals in the U.S. and prohibits the import or export of any marine mammal body parts. -
Clean Water Act
The Clean Water Act (CWA) is the primary federal law in the United States governing water pollution. Its objective is to restore and maintain the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the nation's waters by preventing point and nonpoint pollution sources, providing assistance to publicly owned treatment works for the improvement of wastewater treatment and maintaining the integrity of wetlands. -
Endangered Species Act
Authorizes the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to determine which species can be listed as threatened or endangered and prohibits the harming/trading of the species. The act also autorizes the government to purchase habitat that is critical to the species. -
CITES
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora controls the international trade of threatened plants and animals. -
Endangered Species Act of 1973
The Endangered Species Act of 1973 is one of the few dozens of US environmental laws passed in the 1970s and serves as the enacting legislation to carry out the provisions outlined in The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). Designed to protect critically imperiled species from extinction as a "consequence of economic growth and development untempered by adequate concern and conservation" -
Safe Drinking Water Act
The Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) is the federal law that protects public drinking water supplies throughout the nation. Under the SDWA, EPA sets standards for drinking water quality and with its partners implements various technical and financial programs to ensure drinking water safety. -
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act is the principal federal law in the United States governing the disposal of solid waste and hazardous waste. -
Comprehensive Environment Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980
CERCLA provides a Federal "Superfund" to clean up uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous-waste sites as well as accidents, spills, and other emergency releases of pollutants and contaminants into the environment. -
Clean Air Act
The Clean Air Act is a United States federal law designed to control air pollution on a national level. It is one of the United States' first and most influential modern environmental laws, and one of the most comprehensive air quality laws in the world. -
Convention on Biological Diversity
Establish a treaty to protect biodiversity
-Conservation
-Sustainable Use
-Equitably share the benefits that emerge from the commercial use of resources
