Environmental Laws are rules and regulations that govern and protect the environment. The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), and the Environmental Quality Improvement Act, the Environmental Education Act, and the Environmental Protection Agency were all passed in 1970. The federal enactments' (of these environmental laws) objectives were to insure that the environment be protected from private and public actions failing to be accountable of harms or costs imposed on the ecological system. Environmental law is enforced by the EPA & the NEPA, where the environment is monitored, analyzed, and researched. Furthermore, environmental law is closely overseen not only by the preceding agencies, but also by state and local governments; that together, devise pollution control policies and enforcement strategies.
Environmental law governs the following: insecticides and enviromental pest control, conservation, International biological programs, International environmental and natural resources, tropical forests, endangered species, environmental taxes, protection of navigable waters, clean water act, oceanic dumping, pollution prevention from ships, oil pollution, national drinking water regulations, atomic energy, National environmental policy, noise pollution, development of energy sources, solid waste disposal, clean air act, and comprehensive enviromental response/compensation and liability act.
Some agencies that can provide you with environmental law resources are, of course the Environmental Protection Agency, Dept. of Interior, US Forest Service of the Dept. of Agriculture, National Resources Conservation Service of the Dept. of Agriculture, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the Dept. of Commerce and the Office of Environment, Safety and Health of the US Dept. of Energy.
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