The Environmental Protection Agency: Cleaning Up America's ActThe Environmental Protection Agency is a young and dynamic federal agency facing the challenges of modern environmental protection. The political controversies and social impacts of the agency are immense, involving courts, legislatures, and elected officials, and the effects of its actions are far reaching, affecting every single person in the United States. After a brief history of the agency, chapters describe its organization, programs, controversies, key events, notable people, and impact on society. Topics covered include the Exxon Valdez oil spill, Three Mile Island, and The Clean Air Act, as well as biographies on administrators Carol Browner, William Ruckelhaus, and Anne M. Gorsuch. |
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Página 36 - State and local governments, and other concerned public and private organizations, to use all practicable means and measures, including financial and technical assistance, in a manner calculated to foster and promote the general welfare, to create and maintain conditions under which man and nature can exist in productive harmony, and fulfill the social, economic, and other requirements of present and future generations of Americans.
Página 30 - The Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) and the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) as Amended by the Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA) of 1996.
Página 46 - EPA to respond to releases, or threatened releases, of hazardous substances that may endanger public health, welfare, or the environment.
Página 34 - The Congress declares that it is the policy of the United States to regulate the dumping of all types of materials into ocean waters and to prevent or strictly limit the dumping into ocean waters of any material which would adversely affect human health, welfare, or amenities, or the marine environment, ecological systems, or economic potentialities.
Página 103 - The purposes of this title are (1) to protect and enhance the quality of the Nation's air resources so as to promote the public health and welfare and the productive capacity of its population...
Página 160 - Congress further finds and declares that — (1) the need for many existing advisory committees has not been adequately reviewed; (2) new advisory committees should be established only when they are determined to be essential and their number should be kept to the minimum...
Página 351 - Within 24 months of the date of this order, each Federal agency shall report to the Working Group on its progress in implementing its agency-wide environmental justice strategy. g. Federal agencies shall provide additional periodic reports to the Working Group as requested by the Working Group. 1-104. Reports to the President Within 14 months of the date of this order, the Working Group shall submit to the President, through the Office of the Deputy Assistant to the President for Environmental Policy...
Página 352 - Each Federal agency shall conduct its programs, policies, and activities that substantially affect human health or the environment, in a manner that ensures that such programs, policies, and activities do not have the effect of excluding persons (including populations) from participation in, denying persons (including populations) the benefits of, or subjecting persons (including populations) to discrimination under, such programs, policies, and activities, because of their race, color, or national...
Página 156 - EPA should improve the data and analytical methodologies that support the assessment, comparison, and reduction of different environmental risks.
Página 349 - Federal Actions to Address Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low-Income Populations. Executive Order 12898 requires each federal agency to "make achieving environmental justice part of its mission by identifying and addressing, as appropriate, disproportionately high and adverse human health or environmental effects of its programs, policies, and activities on minority populations and low-income populations in the United States and its territories and possessions.
Informação bibliográfica
| Título | The Environmental Protection Agency: Cleaning Up America's Act Understanding our government, ISSN 1556-8512 |
| Autores | Robert W. Collin, Robin Morris Collin |
| Edição | ilustrada |
| Editora | Greenwood Publishing Group, 2006 |
| ISBN | 0313333416, 9780313333415 |
| Número de páginas | 385 páginas |
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