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42 U.S.C. 4371-4374. The Environmental Quality Improvement Act of 1970 is a United States environmental law which was passed to work in conjunction with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA). One of the two major purposes of the Act was to authorize the creation of an Office of Environmental Quality to provide the professional ...
Richard Nixon, who proposed the EPA via Reorganization Plan No. 3. Reorganization Plan No. 3 was a United States presidential directive establishing the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), effective December 2, 1970. [1] The order, published in the Federal Register on October 6, 1970, consolidated components from different federal agencies ...
1986 – Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRKA) 1986 – Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA) 1987 – Water Quality Act (amended FWPCA of 1972) 1989 – Basel Convention. 1989 – Montreal Protocol on ozone-depleting chemicals enters into force. 1990 – Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990.
The Act also set forth guidelines for abatement of water that may flow into international territory and prohibited the dumping of oil into navigable waters of the United States. [16] The Water Quality Improvement Act of 1970 required the development of certain water quality standards and expanded federal authority in upholding the standards. [17]
The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA / ˈsiː.kwə /) is a California statute passed in 1970 and signed in to law by then-governor Ronald Reagan, [1][2] shortly after the United States federal government passed the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), to institute a statewide policy of environmental protection.
The history of environmental law in the US can be traced back to early roots in common law doctrines, for example, the law of nuisance and the public trust doctrine. The first environmental statute was the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899, which has been largely superseded by the Clean Water Act (CWA). However, most current major environmental ...
The California Environmental Quality Act is passed into law. January. The United States National Environmental Policy Act becomes effective. February. US President Richard Nixon gave the nation's first presidential message on the environment. April. The first Earth Day took place. Twenty million people participated in teach-ins in the United ...
Clean Air Act. Michigan v. Environmental Protection Agency, 576 U.S. 743 (2015), is a landmark [1] United States Supreme Court case in which the Court analyzed whether the Environmental Protection Agency must consider costs when deciding to regulate, rather than later in the process of issuing the regulation. [2]