apenvsci07

Due the first Friday of the School year – Quiz the following Monday

Type single-spaced with 0.5-inch margins. NO binders. Use a search engine such as http://www.google.com/ or CQ Library, http://www.library.cqpress.com (for login and password, check the Library class on Blackboard (your Blackboard password will become your student ID number on July 1) or email Mrs. Byrnes.

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

2. Cairo Conference on Population and Development

3. ~~CITES Treaty~~ (Repeat)

4. Clean Air Acts

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. Law of the Sea Convention (LOSC)

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

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. Food Quality Protection Act of 1996 (FQPA)

16. Lacey Act

17. Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp Act

18. NEPA (National Environmental Policy Act)

19. Rio Earth Summit

20. Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act

21. Taylor Grazing Act

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

23. The Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA)

24. The Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (OPA)

25. The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)

26. The Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA)

27. Toxic Substances Control Act

28. U.S. Clean Water Act

29. Wild and Scenic Rivers Act

30. Wilderness Act

APES ScrAPESbook

1. Find 10 large newspaper articles (500 words or more) 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 print from the web.

· 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
1	"Polio Pounds Yemen"	LA Times	November 23, 2004	A7

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

5. Check your textbook and the outline for Environmental Topics and Issues

Have a relaxing and fun summer!

Ms. Simmons

Cathy.Simmons@fcps.edu