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The United Nations Environment Programme

The United Nations Environment Programme

Recognizing that environmental issues required further attention by United Nations-sponsored conferences, the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) held its...

The Air Quality Index

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is charged with setting acceptable safe levels of several different common air pollutants. Moreover, for each common air pollutant, there are two standards: one for human health and the other for the...

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission

When Congress passed the first law regulating nuclear energy, the Atomic Energy Act of 1946, it also established the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) to administer the law. As the possibilities for harnessing nuclear energy for the generation of...

Sulfur dioxide

Sulfur dioxide is one of the six common pollutants--referred to by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as "criteria pollutants"--for which the EPA sets air quality standards under the mandates of the Clean Air Act. Sulfur dioxide in the...

The Kyoto Protocol

In 1992, the United Nations held a convention of unprecedented scope in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, called the Convention on Environment and Development, which came to be called the Earth Summit. One of the treaties signed at the convention was the...