National Environmental Education Act

The National Environmental Education Act of 1990 is an act of Congress of the United States of America to promote environmental education.

In this act, Congress found that "threats to human health and environmental quality are increasingly complex, involving a wide range of conventional and toxic contaminants in the air and water and on the land" and that "there is growing evidence of international environmental problems, such as global warming, ocean pollution, and declines in species diversity, and that these problems pose serious threats to human health and the environment on a global scale" and declared several other problems that need to be fixed or addressed by improving environmental education.

References

United States environmental law

Supreme Court decisions	Missouri v. Holland (1920) Sierra Club v. Morton (1972) United States v. SCRAP (1973) Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill (1978) Vermont Yankee v. NRDC (1978) Hughes v. Oklahoma (1979) Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife (1992) United States v. Bestfoods (1998) Friends of the Earth v. Laidlaw Environmental Services (2000) SWANCC v. Army Corps of Engineers (2001) Department of Transportation v. Public Citizen (2004) Rapanos v. United States (2006) Massachusetts v. EPA (2007) National Ass'n of Home Builders v. Defenders of Wildlife (2007) Coeur Alaska, Inc. v. Southeast Alaska Conservation Council (2009)

Major federal legislation and treaties	Rivers and Harbors Act (1899) Lacey Act (1900) Weeks Act (1911) North Pacific Fur Seal Convention of 1911 (1911) Migratory Bird Treaty Act (1918) Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act (1934) Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act (1954) Clean Air Act (1963, 1970) National Environmental Policy Act (1970) Clean Water Act (1972) Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (1972) Noise Control Act (1972) Endangered Species Act (1973) Safe Drinking Water Act (1974) Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (1976) Toxic Substances Control Act (1976) Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act (1977) CERCLA (Superfund) (1980) Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (1986) Emergency Wetlands Resources Act (1986) Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act (2016)

Federal agencies	Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry Council on Environmental Quality Office of Surface Mining United States Environmental Protection Agency United States Fish and Wildlife Service

Regulations and concepts	Best available technology Citizen suit Discharge Monitoring Report Effluent guidelines Environmental crime Environmental impact statement Environmental justice National Ambient Air Quality Standards National Priorities List New Source Performance Standard Not-To-Exceed (NTE) Right to know Total maximum daily load Toxicity category rating

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