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| Law or act | Status | Right | Wrong | Accuracy | Streak | Last | Strength |
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| CAFECorporate Average Fuel Economy standards, 1975. Requires each automaker's fleet to meet a minimum average fuel efficiency in miles per gallon, cutting oil consumption and tailpipe emissions. | New | 0 | N/A | N/A | Never | ||
| CERCLAComprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, 1980. Better known as Superfund. Created a tax on chemical and petroleum industries to fund the cleanup of abandoned hazardous waste sites, and made polluters liable for the cost. | New | 0 | N/A | N/A | Never | ||
| CITESConvention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, 1973. An international treaty that restricts or bans cross-border trade in listed species and products made from them, such as ivory and furs. | New | 0 | N/A | N/A | Never | ||
| Clean Air Act1970 (amended 1977 and 1990). Authorises the EPA to set National Ambient Air Quality Standards for six criteria pollutants, and regulates emissions from both stationary sources such as factories and mobile sources such as cars. | New | 0 | N/A | N/A | Never | ||
| Clean Water Act1972. Regulates the discharge of pollutants into surface waters of the United States and sets water quality standards. Point sources need an NPDES permit; it does comparatively little about nonpoint source pollution or groundwater. | New | 0 | N/A | N/A | Never | ||
| Delaney Clause of Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act1958. Barred the FDA from approving any food additive found to cause cancer in humans or animals. This zero-tolerance standard was later relaxed for trace pesticide residues. | New | 0 | N/A | N/A | Never | ||
| ESAEndangered Species Act, 1973. Lists species as threatened or endangered, protects their critical habitat, prohibits harming or 'taking' listed species, and requires recovery plans. | New | 0 | N/A | N/A | Never | ||
| General Mining Act of 1872Lets citizens prospect for and extract hard-rock minerals on federal public land, claiming it for a few dollars an acre and paying no royalties to the government. Still in force, and widely criticised as badly outdated. | New | 0 | N/A | N/A | Never | ||
| Kyoto Protocol1997, in force 2005. An agreement under the UNFCCC binding industrialised nations to cut greenhouse gas emissions below 1990 levels. The United States signed it but never ratified it. | New | 0 | N/A | N/A | Never | ||
| Montreal Protocol1987. An international treaty phasing out the production of ozone-depleting substances such as CFCs and halons. Widely regarded as the most successful environmental treaty ever enacted. | New | 0 | N/A | N/A | Never | ||
| OPAOil Pollution Act, 1990. Passed after the Exxon Valdez spill. Requires oil spill response plans and double hulls on tankers, and holds responsible parties liable for cleanup costs. | New | 0 | N/A | N/A | Never | ||
| OSHAOccupational Safety and Health Act, 1970. Sets and enforces workplace health and safety standards, including limits on worker exposure to hazardous chemicals, dust, and noise. | New | 0 | N/A | N/A | Never | ||
| Paris Agreement on Climate Change2015. An accord under the UNFCCC in which each nation sets its own voluntary nationally determined contribution, aiming to hold warming well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and ideally to 1.5 °C. | New | 0 | N/A | N/A | Never | ||
| RCRAResource Conservation and Recovery Act, 1976. Governs solid and hazardous waste from 'cradle to grave': generation, transport, treatment, storage, and disposal. | New | 0 | N/A | N/A | Never | ||
| SDWASafe Drinking Water Act, 1974. Sets national maximum contaminant levels for public drinking water supplies and protects the source water behind them, including aquifers. | New | 0 | N/A | N/A | Never | ||
| Wilderness Act1964. Created the National Wilderness Preservation System, setting aside federal land to stay roadless and undeveloped, with no permanent structures, motor vehicles, or commercial enterprise. | New | 0 | N/A | N/A | Never |