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

Antitoxin groups are a subgroup that is affiliated with the Environmental Movement in the United States, that is primarily concerned with the effects that cities and their by products have on humans.

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.

* Environmental groups and resources serving K – 12 schools

Environmental groups are asking the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service to determine if any species on the threatened or endangered list were harmed.

Reaction to Vilsack's nomination from agricultural groups was largely positive and included endorsements from the Corn Refiners Association, the National Grain and Feed Association, the National Farmers Union, the American Farm Bureau Federation, and the Environmental Defense Fund.

Environmental and fishing groups have argued that the action to protect fish will ultimately save more jobs in the fishing and tourism industries than will be lost in agriculture.

Several large environmental groups, including Sierra Club, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and the Ohio Environmental Council, opposed the building of a coal-fired power plant due to the pollution it would cause.

Other Ohio groups, including Ohio Citizen Action and the Ohio Student Environmental Coalition, worked actively to convince municipalities, such as Bowling Green, to live up to their green rhetoric and cancel their participation in the plant.

Both groups, as well as other stakeholders, are part of a Superfund Community Advisory Group called the Palmerton Environmental Task Force.

" Environmental groups have sought to make Earth Day into a day of action which changes human behavior and provokes policy changes.

Many students from Tulane ’ s two active environmental groups, Green Club and Environmental Law Society, attended.

* Environmental groups and resources serving K – 12 schools

Less than two weeks later, Hart heard arguments from conservation groups that the TAPS project violated the Mineral Leasing Act and the National Environmental Policy Act, which had gone into effect at the start of the year.

Although conservation groups and environmental organizations had voiced opposition to the pipeline project before 1970, the introduction of the National Environmental Policy Act allowed them legal grounds to halt the project.

The United States Environmental Protection Agency is an example of an attempt to make sure the costs of public bads are taken into account, although some groups on the right and left have criticized the value of its efforts.

Environmental groups like Friends of the Clayoquot Sound and the First Nations communities were concerned with the logging companies ’ approach to resource management.

Environmental groups debated the amount and type of land that had been divided, but the First Nations, who composed almost the entire population of the Sound, were concerned that the plan did not consider their spatial, environmental, or economic practices.

Environmental groups and the Green Party oppose its use.

* Environmental Alliance Award, recognizes individuals or groups that have forged partnerships with other non-Sierra Club entities.

Norton was influenced by the works of novelist Ayn Rand, and has been associated with a number of groups in the " wise use " or " free-market environmentalist " movement, such as the Property and Environmental Research Center, of which she is a fellow.

" He points to groups like the World Wildlife Fund, Greenpeace, the Environmental Defense Fund, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and to activists such as Rachel Carson and

Environmental groups ( including the Sierra Club and Restore Hetch Hetchy ) still advocate removing the dam and restoring the valley to its former appearance.

By the early 1990s Huntingdon was organized into three business groups: the Life Sciences Group, the Engineering / Environmental Group, and the Travers Morgan Group, which offered engineering and environmental consulting services outside of the United States.

Environmental NGOs vary widely in political views and in the amount they seek to influence the environmental policy of the United States and other governments.

Environmental NGOs are another sub-sector, and sometimes overlap with development NGOs.

( see: List of Environmental NGOs ).

The National Environmental Directory is the biggest directory of environmental NGOs in the U. S., currently listing over 13, 000 organizations.

# REDIRECT Palestinian Environmental NGOs Network

The Palestinian Environmental NGOs Network ( PENGON ) is a non-profit, non-governmental organization with a mandate to protect the environment of Palestine by acting as a coordinating body for Palestinian environmental organizations located in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

* Palestinian Environmental NGOs Network

With this background, Environmental Information Centre ( EIC ) has been set up to serve as a professionally managed clearing house of environmental information that can be used by MoEF, project proponents, consultants, NGOs and other stakeholders involved in the process of environmental impact assessment in India.

In 1994 three national environmental laws were in effect: the Law on Environmental Protection, the Basic Law on the Environment, and the Law on Mineral Resources.

In some areas TCDD concentrations in soil and water were hundreds of times greater than the levels considered " safe " by the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency.

In some areas, TCDD concentrations in soil and water were hundreds of times greater than the levels considered safe by the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency.

In 2001, Bt176 varieties were voluntarily withdrawn from the list of approved varieties by the United States Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) when it was found to have little or no Bt expression in the ears and was not found to be effective against second generation corn borers.

The nuclear reactors were decommissioned at the end of the Cold War, and the Hanford site is now the focus of the world's largest environmental cleanup, managed by the Department of Energy under the oversight of the Washington Department of Ecology and the Environmental Protection Agency.

Of particular note, programs that were placed within the top 10 % of all size programs in that field based on an average of the R95 and S95 rank order include Aeronautics, Astrophysics, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Bioengineering, Biology, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Electrical Engineering, Environmental Science and Engineering, Geology, Geophysics, Materials Science, Mechanical Engineering, Physics, Planetary Science, and Social Science ( Economics ).

Environmental protection is also a priority, several programmes were implemented: " National Forestation and Ornamentation ", " Lonely Tree ", " Green Surveillance ", " Fire Plan ", " Ecuador Forest " and " Arenillas Military Reserve ".

The National Environmental Policy Act ( 1969 ), the Clean Air Act ( 1970 ), the Clean Water Act ( 1972 ), and the Endangered Species Act ( 1973 ) all were enacted with broad bipartisan support, and ultimately signed into law by Republican President Richard Nixon.

Similar protections were included in subsequent federal environmental laws, including the Safe Drinking Water Act ( 1974 ), Resource Conservation and Recovery Act ( 1976 ), Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976, Energy Reorganization Act of 1974 ( through 1978 amendment to protect nuclear whistleblowers ), Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act ( CERCLA, or the Superfund Law ) ( 1980 ), and the Clean Air Act ( 1990 ).

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.

Other early clients were the Environmental Protection Agency, Library of Congress, and the Department of Energy and later the Wall Street Journal and Encyclopædia Britannica.

Treece and Picher, twin communities straddling the Kansas-Oklahoma border, were once one of the United States ' largest sources of zinc and lead, but over a century of unregulated disposal of mine tailings led to groundwater contamination and lead poisoning in the town's children, eventually resulting in a mandatory Environmental Protection Agency buyout and evacuation.

Stone of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation ( NYSDEC ) who first published his findings in the early 1970s that PCBs were leaking from transformers and had contaminated the soil at the bottom of utility poles.

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.

Most controversial is the United States Environmental Protection Agency ( US EPA ) assessment's ( draft ) finding that any reference dose that were to be set would be far below current average intakes.

In some areas TCDD concentrations in soil and water were hundreds of times greater than the levels considered " safe " by the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency.

" The United States Environmental Protection Agency report dated October 2002 and released in December 2002 titled " Exposure and Human Health Evaluation of Airborne Pollution from the World Trade Center Disaster " authored by the EPA Office of Research and Development in Washington states that dioxin levels recorded at a monitoring station on Park Row near City Hall Park in New York between October 12 and 29, 2001, averaged 5. 6 parts per trillion, or nearly six times the highest dioxin level ever recorded in the U. S. Dioxin levels in the rubble of the World Trade Centers were much higher with concentrations ranging from 10 to 170 parts per trillion.

In 1995 Monsanto's potato plants producing Bt toxin were approved for sale by the Environmental Protection Agency, after having approved by the FDA, making it the first pesticide-producing crop to be approved in the United States.

Two legislative consequences of the spill in the next year were the passages of the California Envirnomental Quality Act ( CEQA ) and the National Environmental Policy Act ( NEPA ); locally, outraged citizens formed GOO ( Get Oil Out ).

Some of the earliest such spacecraft were part of the Applications Technology Satellite ( ATS ) series at GEO which were precursors to the modern Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite ( GOES ) weather satellite and many communication satellites.

The lagoons were dredged up until the early 1970s, when it was stopped by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection with the passage of CAFRA I and CAFRA II.

In the early 2000s, the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) and Summit County determined that the oxygen levels were too low in the Cuyahoga River, due mostly to the stagnant pool behind the Munroe Falls dam.