The process assures implementation of environment-friendly projects. WCAG 2. This certifies it as a stable and referenceable technical standard. There are numerous environmental laws in the UK that cover everything from fly-tipping, littering, pollution, wildlife, conservation, climate change, noise and planning. However, knowing or understanding which law pertains to what aspect of the environment can be difficult. To help you understand more about each of these laws, we have provided you with a list of some of the more important and given you links that will take you through each of them in far greater detail.
Pollution is a huge risk to both the environment and to our health and there are a few laws that have been passed to help reduce, prevent and control the many types of pollution that we might be exposed to. The Control of Pollution Act was passed to cover a number of environmental issues such as air, noise, water and atmospheric pollution as well as waste on land.
Established in , the Environment Protection Act is the environmental law in the UK that controls waste management and emissions into the environment. Of course, our environment extends to the wildlife that lives in the UK as well and as you can see below, there are numerous laws in place to help protect it.
Everything from the countryside, wild birds, badgers, hunting and weeds are covered by UK law. The Wildlife and Countryside Act was put in place in and complies with the European Council Directives on the conservation of wild birds. How the U. Has Protected the Environment : Find out more about the laws that have made our air and water cleaner.
Ozone Layer on the Mend, Thanks to Chemical Ban : The Montreal Protocol was an international treaty that banned chlorofluorocarbons, a type of chemical that damages the ozone layer and was once found in household products. Justice Department Division of Environment and Natural Resources : How does the Justice Department get involved in the environment and environmental law? Find out more here. Enforcing Environmental Laws : The federal government is in charge of enforcing nationwide regulations, but states also have their own environmental rules and people in charge of enforcing them.
A patchwork of federal regulations governs how these crops are used in order to protect the existing ecosystem. Pennsylvania Oil and Gas Laws : See the laws, regulations, and guidelines for oil and gas exploration in Pennsylvania, a state that is host to the controversial practice of fracking.
Coal Mining Regulations : Learn about the federal regulations and requirements that pertain to coal mining at this link. The Clean Air Act : Find an overview of this key environmental law and how it has helped to make our world cleaner since it was enacted in Council on Environmental Quality : An executive order established this council in The council helps provide oversight for the implementation of the National Environmental Policy Act.
Learn about the roles and responsibilities of the council on this page. In a sense, the ESA can be traced back to June 20, , when the Continental Congress voted to make the bald eagle the symbol of a nascent country.
America's founding fathers chose a bird of majestic beauty and great strength—and which would be on the precipice of extinction thank you very much, DDT a little more than years later. Under this heightened consciousness, Congress acted fast three decades later when another bird, the whooping crane, flew too close to the edge of extinction. Galvin says that the greatest success of the ESA—signed into law by President Richard Nixon on December 28, —is that "no species has gone extinct after being listed.
In simple terms, the act contains two classifications—endangered species and threatened species. The first are at the brink of extinction now.
The latter are likely to be at the brink in the near future. According to the U. Fish and Wildlife Service, all of the act's protections are provided to endangered species.
Many, but not all, of those protections also are available to threatened species. The Environmental Protection Agency's sister law, the Marine Mammal Protection Act, was signed in , and was the world's first law that mandated an ecosystem approach to marine resource management. Today, the primary threat to the ESA has been there from its inception: pushback from well-funded land development and property rights activists.
Signed in , revised seven times, and ratified by nations, the Montreal Protocol—officially known as the Montreal Protocol on Substances That Deplete the Ozone Layer—has been hailed as "perhaps the single most successful international agreement to date," by Kofi Anan, the former Secretary-General of the United Nations.
This, in turn, prevents harmful ultraviolet radiation—invisible rays that are part of the sun's energy—from entering earth's atmosphere.
In layman's terms, it got rid of a bunch of bad stuff used in everyday life; CFCs were found in air conditioning systems, fire control solvents and hair spray canisters. Zaelke's answer sounds like hyperbole, but it's in alignment with a NASA simulation. In the s, chemists theorized that CFC molecules could be split apart by solar radiation to produce chlorine atoms, which could, in time, destroy the ozone.
Expectedly, the aerosol and halocarbon industries pushed back, calling the theory "science fiction.
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