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.

IUCN Commission on Environmental Law ( CEL ): CEL advances environmental law by developing new legal concepts and instruments, as well as by building the capacity of societies to employ environmental law for conservation and sustainable development.

As recently as November 4, 2010 the city has been running legal notices required by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality stating drinking water from their system has repeatedly tested positive for coliforms.

Other graduates that distinguished themselves in legal academia and practice are university presidents Mark Yudof ( President of the University of California system ), John Frederick Zeller III ( President of Bucknell University ) and Rodney K. Smith ( President of Southern Virginia University ), Robert Butkin ( Dean of the University of Tulsa College of Law ), William Schnader ( drafter of the Uniform Commercial Code ), William Draper Lewis ( founder of the American Law Institute and Dean of Penn Law ), Henry Martyn Hoyt, Jr. ( Solicitor General of the United States ), E. Grey Lewis ( General Counsel of the U. S. Navy ), Bernard Wolfman ( Fessenden Professor of Law Emeritus at Harvard Law School ), Jonathan Z. Cannon ( Blaine T. Phillips Distinguished Professor of Environmental Law at the University of Virginia School of Law and Deputy Administrator of the EPA ).

Starting in 1999, the Ukrainian government has been collecting an ecological tax, officially known as Environmental Pollution Fee (), which is collected from all polluting entities, whether it's one-time or ongoing pollution and regardless of whether the polluting act was legal or illegal at the time.

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.

* Environmental Law Institute, legal resource for environmental law issues

In a press release, Greenpeace the David Suzuki Foundation and the Pembina Institute noted that they had provided the government a legal opinion prepared by the Canadian Environmental Law Association, which concluded that the government's energy plan would be subject to the province's Environmental Assessment Act.

On March 21, 2012, commercial beekeepers and environmental organizations filed an emergency legal petition with the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) to suspend use of clothianidin, urging the agency to adopt safeguards.

The Environmental Management Act, 2004, is the first comprehensive legal and institutional framework to guide environmental-management decisions.

He also claims that the committee's work led to resignations of many Environmental Protection Agency officials, and uncovered information that led to legal proceedings that sent many Food and Drug Administration officials to jail.

The Draft Environmental Impact Report was expected to be complete by the end of 2008, but has been delayed as planners focus on meeting the legal deadline for the Green Line extension to Somerville and Medford.

The CTO also needs a working familiarity with regulatory ( e. g. U. S. Food and Drug Administration, Environmental Protection Agency, Consumer Product Safety Commission, as applicable ) and intellectual property ( IP ) issues ( e. g. patents, trade secrets, license contracts ), and an ability to interface with legal counsel to incorporate those considerations into strategic planning and inter-company negotiations.

The United States Army Corps of Engineers and Environmental Protection Agency have their own definitions, and these have legal implications.

The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act ( CERCLA ), also known as " Superfund ," was enacted in 1980 to address the problem of remediating abandoned hazardous waste sites, by establishing legal liability, as well as a trust fund for cleanup activities.

Prior to being elected congressman, he was active in state and municipal governments, serving as assistant attorney general for Washington ; vice president and legal counsel for the Washington Environmental Council ; and Seattle City Councilman ( 1972 – 1979 ).

In 1986, the United States Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) established a maximum contaminant level ( MCL ) for fluoride at a concentration of 4 milligrams per liter ( mg / L ), which is the legal limit of fluoride allowed in the water.

The BC Environmental Management Act recognizes airsheds and notes that managers under the Act " may give consideration " to them, but their full legal status is uncertain.

The Centre specializes in Environmental and Natural Resource Law, and allows students earn a designation in this highly demanding legal field.

Envision Seattle and the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund offer a model legal ordinance for communities and cities to enforce a free and open Internet.

The syllabi incorporate teaching and research in Environmental Economics and the economic and societal impact of globalisation on India, with particular emphasis on projects / studies on its social, political, legal, and cultural aspects.

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.

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.

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.

Shepard became a first-year political science major at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, and was chosen as the student representative for the Wyoming Environmental Council.

The United States Environmental Protection Agency's ban on Mirex, a pesticide that was used in extermination work, led DeLay to oppose government regulation of businesses, a belief that he has carried with him throughout his political career.

The Green Party (, literally " The Environmental Party the Greens ", and usually simply referred to in Sweden as Miljöpartiet: " The Environmental Party ") is a green political party in Sweden.

Environmental scanning can be defined as ‘ the study and interpretation of the political, economic, social and technological events and trends which influence a business, an industry or even a total market ’.

* Socialist Environmental Alliance, a political party in Northern Ireland

In a USA Today editorial by Patrick J. Michaels, a Research Professor of Environmental Sciences at the University of Virginia and global warming skeptic, Michaels called the film " propaganda ," noting, " As a scientist, I bristle when lies dressed up as ' science ' are used to influence political discourse.

In 1995, Weller received an Environmental Protector Award from the Chicago Audubon Society for his political service.

Environmental groups say that in reversing the decision the agency ’ s Chairman, Fred Hochberg and Board of Directors " caved in " to political pressure from Wisconsin politicians.

* Environmental, cultural and developmental rights, which are sometimes called " third generation rights ," and including the right to live in safe and healthy environments and that groups of people have the right to cultural, political, and economic development.

* The Environmental Politics of Population and Overpopulation A University of California, Berkeley summary about the role of reproductive rights in the current political and ecological context

While the health concerns are very uncertain, various health and science oriented political pressure organizations such as the Environmental Working Group have pressed for these versions to be pulled from market, but BPA-free and totally phenol-free thermal paper is available.

The case stems from Hanegbi's denial that he was behind an ad boosting his appointments of Likud party's political activists to positions in the Ministry of the Environmental Protection.

The ICAPP Conference on Natural Disasters and Environmental Protection was held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia during May 5 – 7, 2011, and was attended by representatives from 40 major political parties in 24 countries in the region.

( eds ) ( 2004 ) Environmental Consciousness: the roots of a new political agenda.

The Socialist Environmental Alliance ( SEA ) is a minor political party operating in Northern Ireland.

Environmental managers from the private sector also need skills to manage collaboration within a dynamic social and political environment.

Environmental lobbygroup and charity An Taisce also claim that O ' Herlihy's company, on behalf of a client, was involved in political lobbying for a controversial land rezoning at Cherrywood in Dublin ( see: The Mahon Tribunal ).

Environmental history frequently promoted a moral and political agenda although it steadily became a more scholarly enterprise .” Early attempts to define the field were made in the United States by Roderick Nash in “ The State of Environmental History ” and in other works by frontier historians Frederick Jackson Turner, James Malin, John Muir and Walter Prescott Webb who analysed the process of settlement.

Before long, Omri headed the Environmental Lobby within Knesset-his political term in this position is seen by some as a golden age for the environment in Israel's history.