Environmental Laws

Which answer choice addresses the issue of stratospheric ozone depletion?

• Montreal Protocol

• Kyoto Protocol

• Endangered Species Act

• National Environment Policy Act

Clean Water Act 1972

• established the National Park Service (NPS), an agency of the U.S. Department of the Interior. 

• U.S. federal law that regulates the discharge of pollutants into the nation's surface waters, including lakes, rivers, streams, wetlands, and coastal areas. Passed in 1972 and amended in 1977 and 1987, the Clean Water Actwas originally 

• legislation that grants public access to documents or other data in the possession of a government agency or public authority, unless the information falls into a category that is specifically excluded from the terms of the legislation.

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This act  was created by the US Environmental Protection Agency to authorize the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) to assist in the creations of law to protect the environment. This act was also established to handle problems such as acid rain, ground-level ozone, and air toxics.

• Clean Air Act

• Clean Water Act

• Energy Policy Act

• Department of Energy

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Which act was created by the US Environmental Protection Agency to authorize the National Ambient AirQuality Standards (NAAQS) to assist in the creations of law to protect the environment?

• National Environmental Policy Act

• Clean Air Act

• Energy Independence and Security Act

• Energy Policy Act

Endangered Species Act 1973 

• created the National Wilderness Preservation System and recognized wilderness as “an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain.

• Protects endangered species

• significantly amended portions of the Marine Protection, Research and Sanctuaries Act 

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Which act protects fish, shellfish, and wildlife in rivers, lakes, streams and oceans?

• Pollution Prevention Act

• Energy Independence and Security Act

• Energy Policy Act

• Clean Water Act

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The Clean Air Act is monitored and enforced by the

• The Paris Accord

• GSA-Government Services Agency

• Virginia

• EPA-Environmental Protection Agency 

Designed to protect the ozone layer by phasing out substances responsible

• Montreal Protocol

• Kyoto Protocol

• Madrid Protocol

• Yucca Protocol

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To protect the country's water bodies from pollution from land-based sources.

• Philippine Environmental Impact Statement System of 1978

• Philippine Clean Air Act of 1999

• Philippine water act of 2004

• Climate Change Act of 2009

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Which of the following acts was established to regulate the discharge of pollutants into the waters of the United States?

• Clean Air Act

• Clean Water Act

• Endangered Species Act

• National Environmental Policy Act