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Environmental Protection Agency (view source)
Revision as of 13:22, July 8, 2017
, 13:22, July 8, 2017→Major laws administered by the EPA: add red links - looking for a place to describe EPA jurisdiction over WOTUS
* Clean Air Act
* Clean Air Act
* Clean Water Act
* [[Clean Water Act]]
* Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA, also known as Superfund) and Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA)
* Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA, also known as Superfund) and Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA)
* Emergency Planning & Community Right-to-Know Act
* Emergency Planning & Community Right-to-Know Act
* National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
* National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
* Oil Pollution Act of 1990
* Oil Pollution Act of 1990
* Safe Drinking Water Act
* [[Safe Drinking Water Act]]
* Solid Waste Disposal Act and Resource Conservation & Recovery Act (RCRA)
* Solid Waste Disposal Act and Resource Conservation & Recovery Act (RCRA)
* Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA)
* Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA)
==History==
==History==
Kraft (2000) examines the rise and evolution of environmental politics since the 1960s. Originating as a movement built around the conservation of natural resources and an attempt to stave off air, water, and land pollution, environmentalism evolved into a much more sophisticated control regime, one that employed the Environmental Protection Agency to slow environmental degradation.
Kraft (2000) examines the rise and evolution of environmental politics since the 1960s. Originating as a movement built around the conservation of natural resources and an attempt to stave off air, water, and land pollution, environmentalism evolved into a much more sophisticated control regime, one that employed the Environmental Protection Agency to slow environmental degradation.