Remove Atmosphere Remove Clean Water Act Remove Deforestation Remove Natural Resources
article thumbnail

Environmental Law: Government and Public Policy Towards the Environment

Environmental Science

Air emissions : Any gas emitted into the atmosphere from industrial or commercial activity. Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) : A group of inert chemical used in many industrial and everyday processes such as our refrigerators that are not broken down at lower atmospheric levels and rise to the upper levels, destroying ozone.

article thumbnail

Conservation: History and Future

Environmental Science

The key difference according to the US National Park Service is that conservation ethics seeks the “proper use” of natural resources while preservation seeks to protect nature against any kind of use. Unlike many other works of botany from that age and later, Sylva highlighted the growing problem of deforestation in England.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

March 2018 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

The court stated: “Plaintiffs’ claims for public nuisance, though pled as state-law claims, depend on a global complex of geophysical cause and effect involving all nations of the planet (and the oceans and atmosphere). Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. Perry , No.

2018 40
article thumbnail

Policy News: March 14, 2022

ESA

Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee advances nomination of Asmeret Asefaw Berhe to lead Department of Energy’s Office of Science. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration receives $5.88 Huffman is a senior member of the House Natural Resources Committee. NSF receives a four percent increase.

2022 98
article thumbnail

Policy News: November 22, 2021

ESA

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration gets $1.5 The bill includes the Senate’s drinking water infrastructure reauthorization bill ( S. More than 100 countries pledged to halt deforestation by 2030. He served as the USDA undersecretary for nature resources and the environment in the Obama administration.

2021 105
article thumbnail

Policy News: August 1, 2022

ESA

The bill funds National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) research at $776 million, a 20 percent increase. The bill includes provisions increasing firefighter salaries, creating a 10 year wildfire strategy for the Forest Service and standardizing water data. The legislation passed largely along party lines.

2022 98