AP-ES: Policies

Atomic Energy Act (AEA)

Federal law that covers for the development, regulation, and disposal of nuclear materials and facilities in the United States

Clean Water Act (CWA)

Federal law that regulates discharges of pollutants into the waters of the United States and establishes quality standards for surface waters

CERCLA / Superfund

Federal law that created a tax on the chemical and petroleum industries and provides broad federal authority to respond directly to releases or threatened releases of hazardous substances that may endanger the public or the environment

CITIES

A legal framework for local action in the US to explore and explicate legal issues that might inhibit or enable policy adoption and implementation across a range of municipal carbon mitigation policy areas

Endangered Species Act (ESA)

A federal law that protects and conserves imperiled species from extinction as a consequence of economic growth and development

Kyoto Protocol (KP)

An international treaty aimed to reduce the emission of gases that contribute to global warming

Lacey Act (LA)

A conservation law in the US that prohibits trade in wildlife, fish, and plants that have been illegally taken, possessed, transported, or sold

Montreal Protocol (MP)

An international treaty to protect the ozone layer by phasing out the production of substances that are responsible for ozone depletion

Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA)

A federal law that regulates the public drinking water supply to protect public health in the US

Food Quality Protection Act (FQSA)

An act in the US that fundamentally changed the EPA’s regulation of pesticides

Federal Land Policy and Management Act

A federal law that governs how public lands that are administered by the Bureau of Land Management are managed

Proposition 65

A requirement in California to warn about chemicals known to cause cancer, birth defects, and other reproductive harm