To protect communities and the environment, the EPA works to enforce laws such as the Clean Air Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act, the National Environmental Education Act, and the Clean Water Act, some of which predate the formation of the agency itself. The EPA is also responsible for the...
Urban sprawl and floodplain development have transformed vital permeable spaces, including waterways, natural vegetation and wetlands, into impermeable areas, increasing stormwater runoff [9,13]. In Kumasi Metropolis, this phenomenon is evidenced by the 54% expansion of impervious areas between 1986 and...
Another fundamental problem with the proposed nuclear plant is its location, by Tuzkan Lake in the Jizzakh region, a zone of high seismic hazard, which is part of theAydar-Arnasay lake system. The lake system is included in theRamsar list of wetlandsfor the conservation of biodiversity (main...
Environmentalists are on the run in Congress in 1994; The `unholy trinity' of the environmentalists' agenda; The `no money, no mandate' legislation; EPA policies; The Clean Air Act; The push to ban chlorine; Laws designed to protect wetlands and endangered ... AR Dowd,LW Stone 被引量...
A landowner who objected to an Environmental Protection Agency order over filling in wetlands without a Clean Water Act permit is not entitled to judicial ... L Roeder - 《Environment Reporter》 被引量: 0发表: 2010年 Ninth Circuit Rules That Government Need Not Disclose Simultaneous Criminal Inve...
Cont. Urban Hazard Mitigation: Creating Resilient Cities [3] Conserving natural areas—maintaining and enhancing the functions of wetlands, dunes and forests From Fail-Safe to Safe-to-Fail: Sustainability and Resilience in the New Urban World [61] Provide sustainable ecosystem services within compact...