What Is The Endangered Species Act?
The Endangered Species Act was enacted in 1973. It allows the Department of the Interior to protect wildlife and endangered species. It is a crime to buy, sell, possess, import or export endangered …
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What Is The Lead Contamination Control Act?
The Lead Contamination Control Act, which was established in 1988, prohibits producing water coolers that contain leadlined tanks. Coolers that already contained lead were recalled.
What Is The Marine Protection, Research And Sanctuaries Act?
The Marine Protection, Research and Sanctuaries Act was enacted in 1972. It grants the EPA the power to require companies to get a special permit before dumping waste into the ocean. It also grants …
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Injuries from Environmental Toxins
The state and federal laws that regulate the toxins that can be emitted or disposed of seek to protect both the environment and public health. In order to fully understand why the laws exist and why compliance with environmental laws is important, it is important to understand the possible injuries that can result from environmental toxins. Consider the health impacts that follow from …
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Common Environmental Law Violations
Federal environmental law is complex. It regulates many different things from protecting endangered species, to the production of energy and from protecting the water that we drink, to protecting the air that we breathe. The many different complicated laws that make up federal environmental law are inevitably broken from time to time. Some laws are broken by accident and others …
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