Land & Water Use

Clean Water Act

Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)

Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA)

Clean Air Act

Eliminating the production of hazardous waste.

Providing funding for cleaning up abandoned hazardous waste sites.

Detailed tracking of hazardous waste from generation to disposal.

Regulating air emissions from hazardous waste facilities.

Clean Water Act

Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)

Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA)

Clean Air Act

General tax revenues

Taxes on hazardous waste producers

Fines collected from environmental violations

International contributions

Carbon Dioxide ($CO_2$)

Methane ($CH_4$)

Sulfur Oxides ($SO_x$)

Ammonia ($NH_3$)

Primary standards protect the environment, while secondary standards protect human health.

Primary standards protect human health, while secondary standards protect property, visibility, and crops.

Primary standards apply to stationary sources, while secondary standards apply to mobile sources.

Primary standards are set by the states, while secondary standards are set by the federal government.

By promoting the use of leaded gasoline.

By regulating lead in fuels, dramatically decreasing atmospheric lead levels.

By encouraging industries to release lead into the atmosphere to stimulate plant growth.

By ignoring lead as a pollutant.

Non-point sources

Point sources

Atmospheric deposition

Agricultural runoff

Best Available Technology (BAT) for point sources and Best Practicable Technology (BPT) for toxins.

Best Practicable Technology (BPT) for point sources and Best Available Technology (BAT) for toxins.

No regulation for point sources and complete elimination of toxins.

Equal standards for both point sources and toxins.

To regulate air emissions from factories.

To protect public health by regulating public drinking water supply.

To clean up hazardous waste sites.

To protect endangered species.