Legislation Name Is this a US or Date Description of the Legislation (Give the purpose, World Treaty, Enacted important founding organizations or people, any major Law or Act? (Year) points that you find)

Forest Management Act 1897

Taylor Grazing Act of 1934

Lacey Act of 1900

Mining Act of 1872

Antiquities Act of 1906

National Park Service Act of 1916

Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918

Soil Conservation Act of 1935

Federal Aid in Wildlife

Restoration Act of 1937

Federal Food, Drug & Cosmetic Act of 1938

Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and

Rodenticide Act of 1947 (FIFRA)

Price Anderson Act of 1957

Delaney Clause 1958

Multiple Use &

Sustained Yield Act of 1960

Clean Air Act (1963)

Wilderness Act of 1964

Clean Water Act

National Wild &

Scenic Rivers Act of 1968

National

Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA)

Clean Air Act (1970)

Marine Protection Research &

Sanctuaries Act of 1972

Ocean Dumping Ac of 1972

Marine Mammal

Protection Act of 1972

Endangered Species Act of 1973

Safe Drinking Water Act of 1974

Energy Policy &

Conservation Act of 1975

Federal Land Policy &

Management Act of 1976

Toxic Substance Control Act of 1976

Resource Conservation &

Recovery Act of 1976 (RCRA)

Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (SMCRA) Comprehensive

Environmental Response, Compensation, &

Liability Act (CERCLA)

Convention on International Trade in

Endangered Species (CITES)

Montreal Protocol on Protecting

Stratospheric Ozone (1987) Basel Convention on

the Transboundary Movement of

Hazardous Waste & Disposal

London Dumping Convention

Antarctic

Treaty/Madrid Protocol

Kyoto Protocol

Law of the Sea Treaty (1982)

Declaration of the

Conference on the Human Environment

(Stockholm Declaration)

Healthy Forests Restoration Act (2003)

Emergency Planning

& Community Right to Know Act

Food Quality

Protection Act of 1996

Oil Pollution Act of 1990

Rio Earth Summit

Occupational Safety & Health Act

EPA