1. Environmental Legislation and Agencies Review

2. Sets a time table for phasing out ozone- depleting substances.

3. Montreal Protocol

4. Sets goal of creating “fishable, swimmable” waterways by setting water quality standards.

5. Clean Water Act

6. Requires mining companies to put funds into escrow to assure land reclamation after mining has ceased.

7. Surface Mining Reclamation and Control Act

8. Regulates manufacture and use of pesticides.

9. Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act

10. Established Superfund for emergency response and remediation of toxic sites.

11. Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act

12. Established air quality standards for primary and secondary pollutants.

13. Clean Air Act

14. Agreement among 150 nations to reduce greenhouse gases.

15. Kyoto Protocol

16. Established the EPA and requires Environmental Impact Statements for major federal construction projects.

17. National Environmental Policy Act

18. Manages and oversees the national parks and many of the wilderness areas in US.

19. National Park Service

20. Tracks emerging and existing diseases and threats to environmental health.

21. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

22. Monitors ocean and atmospheric environmental conditions on a global scale.

23. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

24. This agency regulates hunting and fishing licenses as well as the Endangered Species Act.

25. Fish and Wildlife Service

26. Established by NEPA to coordinate, investigate, and enforce environmental issues and laws.

27. Environmental Protection Agency

28. Governs the disposal of solid waste and hazardous materials

29. RCRA  Resource Conservation and Recovery Act