PUP-3002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Environmental Impact Assessment, Bronchitis, Species Reintroduction
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Concepts: clean air act, clean water act, naional environmental policy act, endangered species act. Deiniion: government acions that afect environmental quality and the use of natural resources. Three focus areas: polluion control/ protecion, resource use and protecion, energy use and conservaion. States have a very strong role: implement the federal policies. Very litle environmental policy before early 1970s (big problem ater river caught ire from polluion: mostly focused on resource conservaion. 1970s: environmental decade : regulatory approach- you have to follow it or there is a penalty. 1980s-2000s: back to incremental reform: clinton"s collaboraive decision making to increase eiciency and lexibility, move towards more market-orientated soluions. Independent execuive agency, created in 1970 by nixon. Deals with issues of environmental quality, polluion, toxic waste, water and air polluion. Ideniies types of pollutants that have adverse impacts: sulfur dioxide and nitrous oxide cause acid rain. Regulaions: technology based standards: demand that polluters adopt technologies to limit their emissions.
