Laws To Know

Question 1

Paris Climate Accord

Answer 1

The Paris agreement is an international treaty to combat climate change. It’s goal is to limit global warming to well below 2, preferably to 1.5° c.

Question 2

Clean Air Act

Answer 2

The clean Air act is the law that defines EPA’s responsibility for protecting and improving the nation’s air quality and the stratospheric ozone layer.

Question 3

Clean Water Act(CWA)

Answer 3

Clean water act establishes the basic structure for regulating discharges of pollutants into the Waters of the United States and regulating quality standards for surface waters.(Environmental Health)

Question 4

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

Answer 4

This international agreement was designed to ensure that international trade in animals and plants does not threaten their survival in the wild.

Question 5

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

Answer 5

Provides a Federal “Superfund” to clean up uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous waste sites such as accidents, spills, and other emergency releases of pollutants and contaminants into the environment.

Question 6

Montreal Protocol

Answer 6

Is an international treaty designed to protect the ozone layer by phasing out the production of numerous substances that are responsible for the ozone depletion.

Question 7

Kyoto Protocol

Answer 7

An international treaty that commits state parties to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, based on scientific consensus that global warming is occurring and that human-made CO2 emissions are driving it.

Question 8

Endangered Species Act

Answer 8

This and prohibits the import, export, or taking a fish and wildlife and plants that are listed as threatened or endangered species.

Question 9

Safe Drinking Water Act (SWDA)

Answer 9

This act makes the EPA set standards for drinking water quality and monitors states, local authorities, and water suppliers to enforce those standards.(Public Health)

Question 10

Delaney Clause of Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act

Answer 10

This act requires the food and drug administration to ban food additives which are found to cause or induce cancer in humans or animals as indicated by testing.

Question 11

Resource Conservation and Recovery Act(RCRA)

Answer 11

This act that gives the EPA the authority to control hazardous waste from cradle to grave. This includes the generation, transportation, treatment, storage, and disposal of hazardous waste.