* Environmental adaptation including provision of equipment or designing adaptations to remove obstacles or make them manageable

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.

Environmental health could also deal with nutrition, preventive medicine, aging, and other concerns specific to human well-being.

Environmental economics was a major influence for the theories of natural capitalism and environmental finance, which could be said to be two sub-branches of environmental economics concerned with resource conservation in production, and the value of biodiversity to humans, respectively.

For example, in Friends of the Earth, Inc. v. Laidlaw Environmental Services, Inc.,, the Supreme Court held that an industrial polluter, against whom various deterrent civil penalties were being pursued, could not claim that the case was moot, even though the polluter had ceased polluting and had closed the factory responsible for the pollution.

" However, the United States Environmental Protection Agency has recently posted a cautionary statement, warning that potentially harmful amounts of arsenic could be released from use of Ironite.

In 2008, the U. S. Senate Committee on Environmental and Public Works found that failure to perform to contractual requirements could cost taxpayers up to $ 11 billion by 2020.

Tulane hosted an Environmental Summit at its law school in April 2009, an event that all students could attend for free.

In a peer-reviewed article in Environmental Science and Technology he showed that pathogens could easily remain undetected in untreated sewage sludge.

On October 29, 2001, the EPA fined Bechtel $ 30, 383 at the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory for not keeping records of any service being performed or of how much refrigerant was added to the cooling systems, which could increase annualized leak rates more than 15 %.

Environmental organizations say that the submarine could be dangerous for fishes, because radioactive material could leak to the sea from its two nuclear reactors.

The original 1. 3 liter car ( chassis code AE532 ) and the later 1. 5 liter American-market CRX HF ( High Fuel economy ) model ( chassis codes EC1 and AF ) could reliably achieve very good gas mileage, more than a decade before gas-electric hybrids appeared on the market, and at no price premium over the base model ; the 1. 5 liter is rated by the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) ( under the new rating system ) at city and highway.

However, due to the State ’ s interpretation of the California Environmental Quality Act, Yorktown Technologies was informed by State attorneys that it would first need to complete a study which could cost hundreds of thousands of dollars and take years to complete.

For example, if Congress enacted a law that simply stated that there are not to be " excessive " levels of mercury in any significant body of water in the United States ( but defined things no further ), an entity designated, as part of the law, to enforce it ( probably the United States Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA )) could define in a scientific way what an excessive level of mercury is, as well as what constitutes a significant body of water.

" Peterson predicted that an Environmental Protection Agency proposal to assess indirect effects of ethanol production on greenhouse gas emissions, combined with the climate change legislation, could " kill off corn ethanol.

Environmental damage to the Nile Delta is not yet one of Egypt's priorities, but experts say if the situation continues to deteriorate, it will trigger massive food shortages which could turn seven million people into " climate refugees " by the end of the century.

As of May 2011, the U. S government is in process of creating an Environmental Impact Statement for the island ( expected by late 2011 ), whose objective, among others, is to determine whether the impact of 60 years of animal testing on the island constitutes a threat to public health that could preclude the sale.

Due to the increasingly high levels of lake pollution, E. coli bacteria, and related algae levels, Grand Lake could be dying off as a destination lake and is considered by the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency to be " impaired " due to " stream channelization, drainage tiles, loss of floodplains and streamside vegetation, manure runoff and untreated sewage flowing from failing home septic systems and small communities without any wastewater collection or treatment.

Accordingly, the state's Department of Environmental Conservation ( DEC ) classifies the Monroe and Genesee sections of the stream as " threatened ", since some issues could arise in the future.

A large breakthrough could be underway after a paper published in the Applied and Environmental Microbiology journal showed proof that water with natural organic matter could be disinfected with ozone-initiated radical reactions.

Mr Mosca submitted a Statement of Environmental Effects in July, which argued that " warehouse clearance outlets " were not specifically prohibited by the LEP, and therefore Council could consent to them.

Earlier this year, Simplot submitted a report to the Environmental Protection Agency to explain its view regarding how and why pollution limits could be eased in phosphate mine areas.

Investigations ongoing throughout the year indicated that the waste likely originated from “ New York City ’ s marine transfer stations … and the Southwest Brooklyn Incinerator and Transfer Station in particular …” The then-assistant commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection stated his belief that the cause of pollution was intentional rather than accidental ; “ sealed plastic garbage bags, he said, were cut at the top, so their contents could disperse through the ocean .” Such a deliberate action may have arisen given the high cost (~$ 1500 / ton ) associated with the legal disposal of the waste, thus incentivizing private waste contractors to dump illegally to avoid high fees.

Benchley was a member of the National Council of Environmental Defense and a spokesman for its Oceans Program: " he shark in an updated Jaws could not be the villain ; it would have to be written as the victim ; for, worldwide, sharks are much more the oppressed than the oppressors.