nImproving the Quality of Environmental Documents A Report of the Joint AASHTO/ACEC Committee in Cooperation with the Federal Highway Administration May 2006 American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials Acknowledgments AASHTO‚ ACEC‚ and FHWA gratefully acknowledge the contributions of the task team members who worked on this effort. In addition to the information provided in this guide‚ a wealth of information compiled by the Education Task Team will be accessible
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AN INTRODUCTION TO ENVIRONMENTAL LAW James Maurici‚ Landmark Chambers Introduction 1. This talk will look at: i. What is environmental law? ii. The sources of environmental law iii. Some key concepts in environmental law: the precautionary principle‚ the polluter pays‚ public participation and access to environmental justice iv. An introduction to the main areas of environmental law: a. air quality b. climate change c. contaminated land d. noise e. environmental permitting f. waste g. water h. nature
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1. INTRODUCTION Environmental Pollution is the most important threat to the human race on this planet today. Environment consists of earth‚ air‚ water‚ flora and fauna. It means adding impurity which threatens the life of flora and fauna to the environment. These impurities are mainly created by man-made activities. The impurity can be air‚ water‚ land any sort of thermal radiation‚ etc. As we moving towards globalization there is rapid increase in industrialization and technological growth which
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Environmental Scanning The environment is responsible for more company changes that the general public often realizes. The future of a company depends on the reaction that the company has to environmental changes. By not adapting to the changes‚ companies could ultimately end up failing. Recognizing that the environment is changing‚ businesses need to be able to adapt their products to keep up with new opportunities and balance a strategic fit between the environment and the company (Wheelen
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Environmental crises are distinguished by rapid and largely unexpected changes in environmental quality that are di¢ cult if not impossible to reverse. Examples would be major extinctions and significant degradations of an ecosystem. The world is facing a very serious environmental crisis. Key environmental problems include air pollution‚ the destruction of the ozone layer‚ vast quantities of toxic waste‚ massive levels of soil erosion‚ the possible exhaustion of key natural resources such as oil
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Environmental Factors in Colombia Organizations are not isolated of what happens in the environment outside them‚ they face uncertainty in dealing with events in the external environment and they have to adapt to new changes regarding customers‚ government‚ economic conditions and technology. It is very important for organizations in Colombia to become aware of their environment because assessing it could make them more competitive and allow them to adapt and survive in the market‚ but the
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Environmental Disasters For the purpose of this article an environmental disaster is defined as a specific event caused by human activity that results in a seriously negative effect on the environment. Sometimes a natural disaster can become an environmental disaster‚ but that is a topic to be discussed elsewhere. In most cases environmental disasters are caused by human error‚ accident‚ lack of foresight‚ corner cutting during industrial processes‚ greed‚ or by simple incompetence. In other
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Risk Assessment Assignment SCI 275 Risk Assessment of Malathion Currently before the Genericville city council is a proposed pesticide application program to reduce the mosquito population. The current pesticide of choice for this is Malathion. While there are many different viewpoints on the effects of the pesticide Malathion‚ it is my decision as a city council member to vote for the usage of Malathion as part of the pesticide application program. Included in my vote is the condition that
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Environmental problems Everyone has heard about global problems. Television and the press often writes about storms‚ droughts‚ melting of glaciers‚ or hunger in Africa. But not too many of us know the details‚ and the stories behind those problems. These days the biggest environmental problems are: Global warming‚ Pollution‚ drought‚ overpopulation‚ deforestation‚ Endangered species. Let’s start from global warming. Global warming is the process by which the Earth’s average atmospheric temperature
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Analysis For the analysis Phase of this project‚ the rate of exposure is required. For this to be determined some assumptions were made; the environmental badges received 10 mrem/quarter of exposure‚ the synchrotron equally exposes the entire facility; the Radiation follows the Inverse Square law for the relation of exposure to 2 points away from a source‚ and all other factors of exposure attenuation were ignored. These assumptions simplified the calculations to only be dependent on the distance
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