With the exception of a single gray whale killed in 1999, the Makah people have been prevented from hunting by a series of legal challenges, culminating in a United States federal appeals court decision in December 2002 that required the National Marine Fisheries Service to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement.

According to Nord Stream, he advises on the Environmental Impact Assessment ( EIA ) and permit applications in Finland.

CAD is also used for the accurate creation of photo simulations that are often required in the preparation of Environmental Impact Reports, in which computer-aided designs of intended buildings are superimposed into photographs of existing environments to represent what that locale will be like were the proposed facilities allowed to be built.

EPA is responsible for reviewing Environmental Impact Statements of other federal agencies ' projects, under the National Environmental Policy Act ( NEPA ).

One can examine the specifics of environmental science by reading examples of Environmental Impact Statements prepared under NEPA such as: Wastewater treatment expansion options discharging into the San Diego / Tijuana Estuary, Expansion of the San Francisco International Airport, Development of the Houston, Metro Transportation system, Expansion of the metropolitan Boston MBTA transit system, and Construction of Interstate 66 through Arlington, Virginia.

* Environmental Impact Statement

The group transferred their successful work on an Environmental Impact Statement to the county in 2002 and a county-wide 10-A permit was obtained in October 2008.

A colony of this rare plant was discovered during preparation of an Environmental Impact Report for a proposed shopping center on the east side of I-80 in the late 1980s.

* El Dorado Local Agency Formation Committee, " Final Environmental Impact Report for the Incorporation of El Dorado Hills ", May 12, 2005

During the two-year span, a draft and final Environmental Impact Report ( EIR ) was designed for Laidlaw.

This federal grant program required preparation of an Environmental Impact Report, which document provided much of the initial environmental database for Arroyo Grande.

In March 2011, following the release of the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers ' Draft Environmental Impact Report, Gov.

In October 2007, the DOE issued a draft of the Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement in which it shows that for the first 10, 000 years mean public dose would be 0. 24 mrem / year and that thereafter to 1, 000, 000 years the median public dose would be 0. 98 mrem / year, both of which are substantially below the proposed EPA limit.

Dose assessments were to continue beyond 10, 000 years and be placed in DOE's Environmental Impact Statement, but were not subject to a compliance standard.

The Town and Country Planning ( Environmental Impact Assessment ) ( England and Wales ) Regulations 1999, N. O 293. legislation. gov. uk, Available: www. legislation. gov. uk / uksi / 1999 / 293 / contents 27 March 2011.

An environmental lobby group, Friends of the Avon River ( FAR ), has called upon the Federal Fisheries Ministers to instigate a Comprehensive Environmental Impact Assessment Study ( CEIA ) of the complete Avon River Watershed in order to protect the Endangered Atlantic Salmon, the COSWIC listed American Eel and their ' critical habitats '.

Many of the villagers who live directly above the proposed mine site have expressed concern that the company and its Environmental Impact Assessment ( EIA ) have not adequately addressed concerns of salinization of groundwater and soil or land subsidence.

The Bill is accompanied by an Environmental Impact Statement, plans and other related information.

In 1989 an airport master plan and Environmental Impact Report were prepared to guide development over the next two decades.

The Hong Kong Environmental Protection Department issued summonses to the corporation for offences under the Environmental Impact Assessment Ordinance.

Subsequently San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties commissioned Earth Metrics, Inc., to prepare an Environmental Impact Report on right-of-way acquisition and expansion of operations.

* United States Coast Guard, Environmental Impact Statement, Goethals Bridge Replacement, Newsletter 4, October 2006 Howard / Stein-Hudson Associates, 517 W 35th St., 7th Fl., NY, NY 10001

U. S. News & World Report has consistently ranked Vermont Law School, Lewis & Clark Law School, and Pace University School of Law as the top three Environmental Law programs in the United States, with Lewis & Clark and Vermont frequently trading the top spot.

* Mathews, Freya 1994 " Cultural Relativism and Environmental Ethics " IUCN Ethics Working Group Report No 5, August 1994.

* South Florida Environmental Report ( South Florida Water Management District and Florida DEP )

* Federal Facilities Council Report 1999, Environmental Management Systems and ISO 14001, National Academy Press, Washington DC.

* Commission for Environmental Cooperation ( 2000 ): “ Improving Environmental Performance and Compliance: 10 Elements of Effective Environmental Management Systems .” Report.

* United States Environmental Protection Agency ( 2001 ): “ Integrated Environmental Management Systems: Implementation Guide .” Report written by ABT Associates for the USEPA ’ s Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics, Design for the Environment Program ; Economics, Exposure, and Technology Division.

Also, a CEO Dashboard complemented by an annual Environmental Report shows the exact Environmental statistics and Key Performance Indicators in terms of air and sea water pollutions.

( 1989 ): Environmental Impact Report for the Pillar Point East Harbor Master Plan.

In June 2002, the United States Environmental Protection Agency produced its own, separate report on climate change, titled the " Climate Action Report.

*" Climate Action Report ," U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, June 2002.

Because LADWP had never completed an Environmental Impact Report ( EIR ) addressing the impacts of groundwater pumping, Inyo County sued Los Angeles under the terms of the California Environmental Quality Act.

" Report on Nutria Management and Research in the Pacific Northwest " Center for Lakes and Reservoir Environmental Sciences and Resources, Portland State University.

Environmental issues helped form the basis of the nationalist independence movement when environmental demonstrations subsequently merged with those for other political causes in the late 1980s.

* The Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty was signed October 4, 1991 and entered into force January 14, 1998 ; this agreement prevents development and provides for the protection of the Antarctic environment through five specific annexes on marine pollution, fauna and flora, environmental impact assessments, waste management, and protected areas.

* Committee for Environmental Protection of Antarctica

* Bronx Council for Environmental Quality

Nowadays, the agencies that are responsible for the biotechnology regulation are: US Department of Agriculture ( USDA ) that regulates plant pests and medical preparation from living organisms, Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) that regulates pesticides and herbicides, and the Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) which ensures that the food and drug products are safe and effective

Environmental concerns regarding dust from the Trade Center are a continuing source of concern for many residents, scientists, and elected officials.

In 2002, Lomborg and the Environmental Assessment Institute founded the Copenhagen Consensus, which seeks to establish priorities for advancing global welfare using methodologies based on the theory of welfare economics.

Environmental advocates have called for the removal of certain dams in the Columbia system in the years since.

Costa Rica is party to many environmental treaties, including the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Convention on Environmental Modification, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Montreal Protocol, the Ramsar Convention, the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling, the Desertification Convention, the Endangered Species Convention, the Basel Convention, the Convention on the Law of the Sea, the Convention on Marine Dumping, the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.

The United States Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) includes discarded CRT monitors in its category of " hazardous household waste " but considers CRTs that have been set aside for testing to be commodities if they are not discarded, speculatively accumulated, or left unprotected from weather and other damage.

* CERES Community Environment Park ( Centre for Education and Research in Environmental Strategies ), a community environmental park in Melbourne, Australia

The Trust runs ERCCIS ( Environmental Records Centre for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly ), a county wide database of sightings of animals and plants.

The group Republicans for Environmental Protection seeks to strengthen the Republican Party's stance on environmental issues, and supports efforts to conserve natural resources and protect human and environmental health.

* Energy & Environmental Data for Delaware

Schulich School of Law also operates the Marine & Environmental Law Institute, which carries out research and conducts consultancy activities for governmental and non-governmental organizations.

In some cases, appeals are also handled internally ( for example, EPA's Environmental Appeals Board ).

* the Centre for International Environmental Law

* The Interamerican Association for Environmental Defense

The largest and most influential environmental organizations in the United States, according to Andrew Rowell are the so called Group of Ten: Defenders of Wildlife, Environmental Defense Fund, National Audubon Society, National Wildlife Federation, Natural Resources Defense Council, Friends of the Earth, Izaak Walton League, Sierra Club, The Wilderness Society and the World Wide Fund for Nature

Environmental movements often interact or are linked with other social movements, e. g. for peace, human rights, and animal rights ; and against nuclear weapons and / or nuclear power, endemic diseases, poverty, hunger, etc.

These groups include the Abalone Alliance, Clamshell Alliance, Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, Nuclear Information and Resource Service, and Physicians for Social Responsibility.

Groups such as the Sierra Club shifted focus from local issues to becoming a lobby in Washington and new groups, for example, the Natural Resources Defense Council and Environmental Defense, arose to influence politics as well.

The ECMWF model is primarily used as comparison against the Global Forecast System, which is based in the United States and is run by the National Centers for Environmental Prediction.

Environmental skeptics have argued that the extent of harm coming from human activities is less certain than some scientists and scientific bodies claim, or that it is too soon to be introducing curbs in these activities on the basis of existing evidence, or that further discussion is needed regarding who should pay for such environmental initiatives.