APES <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"><!-- saved from url=(0066)http://www.lcusd.net/lchs/mewoldsen/APES-5-Names-Agencies-Acts.htm -->Summer Assignment 2007  (Due the 2nd  Friday of the School year – Quiz the 9/18/07)            

Type single-spaced with 0.5-inch margins.  NO binders. Use a search engine such as http://www.google.com/. 

 

Check the website http://www.lcusd.net/lchs/mewoldsen. It will be changing over the summer.

Make sure to look at the Calendar for the year. 

 

Legislation

I.  Find the following for each of the laws and/or treaties:

a)      Name, Draft Year, Amendment Years, International or National

b)      Description of Function; Environmental Issues Affected

c)      Agency/Group Responsible for Regulation and Enforcement (i.e. United Nations, Department of Interior, EPA, etc.)

 

Laws and Treaties

1.    Antarctic Treaty – Madrid Protocol

2.    Cairo Conference on Population and Development

3.    Clean Air Acts

4.    Clean Water Act

5.    Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation   Liability Act (CERCLA)

6.    Convention of Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol

7.    Convention of Ozone Depletion and the Montreal Protocol

8.    Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species  (CITES)

9.    Declaration of the Conference on the Human Environment (Stockholm Declaration)

10.Emergency Planning & Community Right-To-Know Act (EPCRA)

11.Endangered Species Act

12.Energy Policy Act

13.Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act  (FFDCA)

14.Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA)

15.   Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)

16.   Lacey Act

17.   Law of the Sea Convention (LOSC)

18.   Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp Act

19.   NEPA (National Environmental Policy Act)

20.   Nuclear Waste Policy Act

21.   Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA)

22.   Ocean Dumping Act (ODA)

23.   Resource Conservation and Recovery Act  (RCRA)

24.   Rio Earth Summit

25.   Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA)

26.   Solid Waste Disposal Act

27.   Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA)

28.   Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act

29.   Taylor Grazing Act

30.   Toxic Substances Control Act

31.   Wild and Scenic Rivers Act

32.   Wilderness Act

Know laws by Bold Name.

 

APES ScrAPESbook

 

1.    Find 10 large newspapers articles related to Environmental Science (one per week). If you are on vacation, look in the local paper.

·         Do not take/use articles from magazines.

·         Do not photocopy.

2.    Summarize each article using at least 100 words. The articles should be neatly cutout and taped/glued/displayed with the summary facing its article. Summaries may be neatly handwritten or typed.

3.     Include a "Table of Contents” in which you number the articles; and list the title, source, and date of each article.

Title

Source

Date

Page

"Polio Pounds Yemen"
LA Times

November 23, 2010

A7

 4.     The newspaper articles that you select must have some "substance" and must have a clear connection to Environmental Science.

 

 

 

Vocabulary

See if you know the Vocabulary for Unit 1

 

Have a relaxing and fun summer!

 

Dr. E