Apes Laws

Mandates the restoration and maintenance of the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the nation's waters

• Safe Drinking Water Act

• Clean Water Act

• Clean Air Act

• Resource Conservation Recovery Act

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Establishes cradle to grave tracking of hazardous waste

• Safe Drinking Water Act

• Clean Water Act

• CERCLA

• Resource Conservation Recovery Act

Requires maximum level of contaminants (MCLs) to meet safety regulations for community tap water supplies

• Clean Water Act

• Kyoto Protocol

• Montreal Protocol

• Safe Drinking Water Act

This law sets standards on pollutants for community water supplies.

• Clean Water Act (CWA)

• Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA)

• National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)

• Oil Pollution Act

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This law regulates the discharges of pollutants into all waters that have a significant connection with navigable waterways.  Also, must have a permit to dump these pollutants. Also, requires certain steps in sewage treatment. 

• Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA)

• Clean Water Act (CWA)

• Oil Pollution Act

• National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)

Created because of Love Canal, mandated Superfund sites

• RCRA

• CERCLA

• Brownfields

• Clean Water Act

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Enacted in 1976, is the principal federal law in the United States governing the disposal of solid waste and hazardous waste

• Montreal Protocol

• The Kyoto Meeting

• Resource Conservation and Recovery Act

• The Price Anderson Act

Known also as Superfund. It was passed in 1980 in response to some alarming and decidely unacceptable hazardous waste practices and management going on in the 1970s.

• CERCLA

• Resource Conservation Recovery Act

• The Montreal Protocol

• Atomic Energy Act

An international treaty designed to protect the ozone layer by phasing out the production of numerous substances that are responsible for ozone depletion. Cut CFCs in half.

• The Paris Accord

• The Montreal Protocol

• The Kyoto Meeting

• Resource Recovery Act

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NGSS.HS-ESS3-4

The goals of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act include which of the following?

• To prevent the unsafe disposal of high-level radioactive wastes at sea

• To prevent the illegal disposal of hospital waste contaminated with infectious agents

• To prevent the unsafe disposal of hazardous wastes on land

• To clean up abandoned hazardous waste sites