To protect the environment, laws are enacted at regional, national and international level. The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) of India is the apex administrative body for regulating, ensuring environmental protection and formulating such laws. These laws reflect the Government's concern about environmental protection...
Perhaps the most striking feature of South African environmental legislation is the fact that environmental provisions are contained in an extremely wide variety of parliamentary Acts, provincial ordinances, local by-laws and ministerial regulations. Some South African statutes regulating environmental ...
But what does a commitment to comply with environmental laws and regulations really mean? Top management can decide that the first most important objective under its EMS is to bring the enterprise into full compliance with environmental law, and to keep it in compliance as the regulatory framework...
Congress made few distinctions under the environmental laws between acts that could result in criminal, civil, or administrative enforcement. As a result, there has been uncertainty about which environmental violations will result in criminal enforcement and persistent claims about the overcriminalization ...
have responsibility for enforcement, although overall policing is by the EC and, increasingly, by theEuropean Environment Agency(EEA) and theEuropean Court of Justice. Within the UK, environmental protection is embodied in overarching statutes, e.g., the Environmental Protection Acts of 1990 and ...
It is recommended that a special court should be established and Saddam Hussain should be tried in this court for his environmental crimes. It is also recommended that there should be more generally applicable environmental laws with international effect to deal with any such military acts which ...
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) confirmed that the EHRDs should be considered as public watchdogs contributing to public debate, whose non-violent acts and expressions require a higher level of protection.Footnote 2 Keeping in mind that all rights are interdependent and interrelated, th...
government passed an extraordinary number of environmental laws—including acts addressing solid-waste disposal, air and water pollution, and the protection of endangered species—and created an Environmental Protection Agency to monitor compliance with them. These new environmental laws dramatically increased...
That means that when a President purports to override acts of Congress, he is acting unconstitutionally. The limits on executive authority extend to state laws as well as federal. In some settings, federal law can preempt state law, though the federal law must be enacted constitutionally rather...
Wednesdays4:6AdelHeribaaheriba@olc.edu INTRODUCTION Priortotheexistenceofenvironmentallaws,theenvironmentwasseverelydegraded.Theneedforregulationwasseennecessaryafterthetortlawfailedtoprotecttheenvironment.Tragedyofthecommons:Freedominthecommonsbringsruintoall.FreeRider:Aprofitingpolluterandeveryone...