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People, Places, Laws
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Rachel Carson | "Silent Spring" (1962), environmental damages by DDT/pesticides and increased awareness at start of modern environmental movement |
| Sherwood Rowland and Mario Molinau | 1974: CFCs destroy good ozone |
| Paul Ehrlich | Biologist, "The Population Bomb" 1968: overpopulation/future food issues |
| Thomas Malthus | British economist, "human population cannot continue to increase. Consequences will be war, famine, and pestilence (disease)" |
| Garrett Hardin | "Tragedy of the Commons" in "Science" 1968: rational people will exploit shared resources |
| Aldo Leopold | "A Sound County Almanac" 1948: "Land Ethic" --> humans are ethnically responsible for serving as the protectors of nature |
| Wangari Maathai | 2004 Peace Prize for "Green Belt" movement (planting trees in Kenya that provided food/fuel, improved soil erosion/desertification |
| John Muir | Sierra Club (1892), fought for prevention of damming of Hetch Valley in Yosemite |
| Gifford Pinchot | First chief of U. S. Forest Service, used principles of sustainable yield by advocating management of resources for multiple use |
| Theodore Roosevelt | U. S. president, established first National Wildlife Refuge at Pelican Island |
| E. O. Wilson | Biologist, co-coined with MacArthur, the theory of island biogeography, which identifies factors that regulate species richness on islands |
| Resource Conservation and Recovery Act | Controls hazardous waste with cradle-to-grave system requirements |
| Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA) | Identifies Superfund sites, designed to identify and clean up abandoned hazardous waste dump sites |
| Nuclear Waste Policy Act | Encourages development of a U. S. high-level nuclear waste repository site by 2014 (original proposed site was NV) |
| Low-Level Radioactive Policy Act | Requires all states to have facilities to handle low-level radioactive wastes |
| Basel Convention | Not signed by U. S., treaty resulted in hazardous waste from developed nations being shipped overseas to developing countries, requires that they must give full permission to accept it |
| Clean Air Act | Sets emission standards for cars, addresses requirements for reducing ozone depletion and acid deposition |
| Kyoto Protocol | Not signed by U. S., controls global warming by setting greenhouse gas emissions targets for developed countries |
| Montreal Protocol | Not signed by U. S., phase out of ozone depleting substances |
| Safe Drinking Water Act | Sets maximum containment levels for pollutants that may have adverse effects on health |
| Clean Water Act | Sets maximum permissible amounts of water pollutants that can be discharged into waterways, main goals: reduce surface water pollution into lakes, rivers, streams |
| Water Quality Act | Addresses storm water pollution issues |
| Ocean Dumping Ban Act | Bans dumping of sewage sludge and industrial waste in the ocean |
| Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act | Regulates coal mining activities in the U. S. and requires reclaiming of land after use |
| Federal Mine Safety and Health Act | Sets forth federal health and safety regulations for all coal and non-coal mining operations in the U. S. |
| Energy Policy Act | Law provides incentives for various energy resources |
| Endangered Species Act | Identifies threatened and endangered species in the U. S. and puts their protection ahead of economic considerations |
| CITES | International treaty, lists species that cannot be commercially traded as live specimens/wildlife products |
| Marine Mammal Protection Act | Protects all marine mammals by prohibiting the taking of marine mammals and marine mammals products into the U. S. |
| Lacey Act | Prohibits interstate transport of wild animals without federal permit |
| Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, Rodenticide Act | Regulates the effectiveness of pesticides |
| Food Quality Protection Act | Sets pesticide limits in food, and all (in)active ingredients must be screened for estrogenic/endocrine effects |
| Persistent Organic Pollutants Treaty | International treaty, not ratified by U. S., agreement to phase out 12 organic persistent pollutants (dirty dozen) |
| Aral Sea, Uzbekistan/Kazakhstan and Mono Lake, California | Lake that's drying up, salinity is rising due to water diversion for irrigating crops |
| Ogallala Aquifer | Largest aquifer, depleted for agricultural use |
| Minamata, Japan | Mental impairments, birth defects, deaths caused by mercury in Minamata Bay by a factory, mercury was converted to methyl-mercury, bio-accumulated in fish and bio-magnified through food chains |
| Aswan High Dam, Egypt | Silt that made the tile region fills the reservoir, lack of irrigation controls causes waterlogging/salinization, parasitic disease schistosomiasis thrives in water of reservoir |
| Chesapeake Bay, Maryland/Virginia | Largest estuary in U. S., dead zone in 70s --> hypoxic conditions created from nutrients loading by fertilizers --> cultural |
| Love Canal Housing Development, Niagara Falls, NY | Hazardous chemicals buried in an old canal leaked into homes/school yards --> passage of Comprehensive Environmental Response/Liability Act (Superfund Act) |
| Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania | 3/29/79, cooling system shut down, partial core meltdown, continent structure worked well to retain all radioactive materials, but some gas was purposely released to reduce pressure in structure and avoid a more serious accident |
| Bhopal, India | 12/2/84, poisonous gas was accidentally released by a Union Carbide pesticide plant killing about 5,000 people, caused serious health effects to about 60,000 people |
| Chernobyl, Ukraine | 4/26/86, unauthorized safety test, fire/explosion, millions were exposed to unsafe levels of radiation |
| Valdez, Alaska | 3/24/89, oil tank hit reef, spilled 260,000 barrels of oil, largest spill in U. S. waters |
| Yucca Mountain, Nevada | Proposed site for permanent storage of high-level nuclear waste, critics are concerned about safety of transporting high level radioactive waste to site and the proximity of the site to a volcano and earthquake fault |
| Three Gorges Dam, China | World's largest dam, Yangtze River, submerged ecosystems, cities, archaeological sites, displaced 2,000,000 people, fragmented river habitat |
| Clinch River, TN | Power plant near Knoxville had breach in retention pond holding sludge from the coal burning power plant, released up to 1,000,000,000 gallons of mercury and arsenic containing sludge into watershed |
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