APES legistlation

Question 1

Clean Water Act (CWA).

Answer 1

1972
Regulating pollutant discharges into the waters of the United States
Setting wastewater standards for industry

Question 2

CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora)

Answer 2

1973 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

Question 3

Montreal Protocol

Answer 3

1997
to regulate the production and use of chemicals that contribute to the depletion of Earth’s ozone layer.

Question 4

kyoto protocol

Answer 4

1997
requires developed countries to decrease emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases by an average of 5 percent below their 1990 levels by 2012

Question 5

Delaney Clause of Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act

Answer 5

1958
requires the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to ban food additives which are found to cause or induce cancer in humans or animals as indicated by testing.

Question 6

Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA or superfund)

Answer 6

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.

Question 7

Endangered Species Act (ESA)

Answer 7

1973
A law requiring the federal government to protect all species listed as endangered.

Question 8

Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act

Answer 8

1947 Place the distribution, sale, and use of pesticides under federal control.

Question 9

Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments (HSWA)

Answer 9

1984 Is the principal federal law in the United States governing the disposal of solid waste and hazardous waste (aka the RCRA)

Question 10

Clean Air Act (CAA)

Answer 10

Established primary and secondary air quality standards
Sets limits and goals to reduce mobile source air pollution and ambient air quality standards.

Question 11

Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)

Answer 11

1970 Ensure safe and healthful working conditions for workers by setting and enforcing standards and by providing training, outreach, education and assistance.

Question 12

Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)

Answer 12

1976 Management of non-hazardous and hazardous solid waste including landfills and storage tanks. Set minimal standards for all waste disposal facilities and for hazardous wastes.

Question 13

Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA)

Answer 13

1974 The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is allowed to set the standards for drinking water quality and oversees all of the states, localities, and water suppliers who implement these standards

Question 14

Solid Waste Disposal Act (SWDA)

Answer 14

1965 To find better and more efficient ways to dispose of solid waste; promotes shredding and separation of waste and burning of remaining materials to produce stream or generate electricity; promotes recycling.

Question 15

Toxic Substances Control Act of

Answer 15

1776
provides EPA with authority to require reporting, record-keeping and testing requirements, and restrictions relating to chemical substances and/or mixtures

Question 16

Wilderness Act

Answer 16

1964; established 9.1 million aces of federally-protected wilderness in national forests for use of American people; made minimum size of each space 5,000 acres; no vehicles, permanent camps or structures allowed; aim is to keep wildlife and habitat as primitive as possible