APES Laws
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each of the black spaces below before clicking
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| What's Surface Mining & Reclamation Act | Requires coal strip mines to reclaim the land.
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| What's Madrid Protocol? | Moratorium on mineral exploration for 50 years in Antarctica.
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| What's Safe Drinking Water Act? | set maximum contaminant levels for pollutants that may have adverse effects on human health.
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| What's Clean Water Act? | set maximum permissible amounts of water pollutants that can be discharged into waterway..aim to make surface waters swimmable and fishable.
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| What's Water Quality Act? | Attempt to reduce non-point source pollution.
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| What's Ocean Dumping Ban Act? | bans ocean dumping of sewage sludge & industrial waste
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| What's National Environmental Policy Act? | Environmental Impact Statements must be done before any project affecting federal lands can be stated
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| What's Clean Air Act? | Set emission standards for cars, and limits for release of air pollutants.
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| What's Kyoto Protocol? | Controlling global warming by setting greenhouse gas emissions targets for developed countries.
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| What's Montreal Protocol? | Phaseout of ozone deleting substances.
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| What's Resource Conservation & Recovery Act? | Controls hazardous waste with a cradle to grave system.
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| What's Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, & Liability Act? | Superfund, designed to identify and clean up abandoned hazardous waste dump sites.
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| What's Endangered Species Act? | Identifies threatened and endangered species in the US, an puts their protection ahead of economic consideration.
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| What's Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species? | List species that cannot be commercially traded as live specimens or wildlife products.
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| What's Federal Insecticide, fungicide, Rodenticide Act? | Regulates the effectiveness of pesticides.
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| What's Food Quality Protection Act? | Set pesticide limit in food, & all active and inactive ingredients must be screened for estrogenic/endocrine effects.
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| What's Low Level Radioactive Policy Act? | All states must have facilities to handle low level radioactive waste.
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| What's Nuclear Waste Policy Act? | US government must develop a high level nuclear waste site by 215
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