APES Unit 1 - US Major Environmental Laws

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National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)

  • protects environmental quality

  • requires environmental impacts to be considered when major federal projects/actions are planned


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Clean Air Act

  • regulates air pollution

  • pollutants: SO2, lead, CO, NO2, particulates, VOCs, mercury


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Clean Water Act

  • regulates surface-water pollution

  • focuses especially on point-source pollution

  • point source = identifiable source (ex: discharge pipe)

  • non-point source = diffuse/scattered source (ex: runoff)


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Endangered Species Act

  • protects vulnerable, threatened, and endangered species

  • species can have different conservation statuses in different locations


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Delaney Clause

  • Food Additives Amendment of 1958

  • FDA must ban food additives found through testing to cause/induce cancer in humans or animals


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Safe Drinking Water Act

  • protects public drinking-water supplies

  • EPA sets national health-based drinking-water standards

  • protects against natural and human-made contaminants

  • does not regulate private wells serving fewer than 25 people


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Resource Conservation and Recovery Act

  • controls current hazardous waste

  • “cradle-to-grave”

  • generation —> transportation —> treatment —> storage —> disposal

  • encourages reducing/reusing waste


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CERCLA/Superfund Act

  • Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act

  • cleans up contaminated hazardous-waste sites