* 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.

Environmental protection also includes the re-integration of quarries into the countryside after they have been closed down by returning them to nature or re-cultivating them.

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The main environmental protection agency of the Kyrgyzstan government is the State Committee on Environmental Protection, still known by its Soviet-era acronym, Goskompriroda.

The new government created the Ministry of Natural Resources Use and Environmental Protection in July 1992, with departments responsible for environmental protection, protection of flora and fauna, forestry, hydrometeorology, and administrative planning.

* Environmental protection: Many pieces of land have been donated to the Florida Department of Environmental Regulation and the South Florida Water Management District as conservation easements, and the District collects data and ensures that large portions remain in their natural wetland state.

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Due to this poor feeding, Environmental protection is very important as the lake would suffer long term damage if polluted as the second of the rivers, Rigiaa, feeds only a marginal amount into the lake at its southern end.

* Environmental protection ( Article 21 ) This article imposes a duty on government to ensure the habitability of the land — including the general infrastructure and especially the vital sea-defences — and the protection and improvement of the environment.

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The Military Programs Environmental Program manages design and execution of a full range of cleanup and protection activities:

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Connected to the Conewango Creek watershed, it was created in 1982 for the purpose of flood protection and is stocked annually with fish by the state Department of Environmental Conservation and is open for fishing.

Within the borders are two state parks: Wonder Lake in the east and Fahnestock in the west, as well as a portion of the Appalachian National Scenic Trail and thousands of acres of spectacular open spaces under the permanent protection of the New York Department of Environmental Protection.

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The Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999, completes the framework for the protection and of water resources.

The Environmental Protection and Enhancement Act ( 2000 ) " supports and promotes the protection, enhancement, and wise use of the environment.

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Environmental intelligence is just as important.

Environmental ethics is concerned with questions such as the duties of humans towards landscapes or species.

Disposal of waste by simply dumping it at the shoreline such as here at the Russian Bellingshausen Island | Bellingshausen base is no longer permitted by the Protocol on Environmental Protection

Goldman Sachs is seeking gold-level certification under the United States Green Building Council ’ s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design ( LEED ) program by incorporating various water and energy conservation features.

He is an adjunct professor at the Copenhagen Business School, director of the Copenhagen Consensus Centre and a former director of the Environmental Assessment Institute in Copenhagen.

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.

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.

In terms of the 2008 Environmental Performance Index ranking, Costa Rica is 5th in the world, up from the 15th place in 2006.

In addition to these, Chalmers is home to six national competence centres in key fields like Mathematical Modelling, Environmental Science and Vehicle Safety ( SAFER ).

The Environmental Modification Convention ( ENMOD ), formally the Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques is an international treaty prohibiting the military or other hostile use of environmental modification techniques.

Cadillac is also home to two superfund sites according to the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Established during 1995, Environmental Corps ( E-Corps ) is an American YouthWorks program which allows youth, ages 17 to 28, to contribute to the restoration and preservation of parks and public lands in Texas.

* 1980 – The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, also known as CERCLA or Superfund, is enacted by the U. S. Congress.

Environmental law is a complex and interlocking body of international treaties ( conventions ), statutes, regulations, and common law or national legislation ( where applicable ) that operates to regulate the interaction of humanity and the natural environment, toward the purpose of reducing the impacts of human activity.

Environmental law draws from and is influenced by principles of environmentalism, including ecology, conservation, stewardship, responsibility and sustainability.

Environmental law is often the source of controversy.

The IUCN Academy of Environmental Law is a network of some 60 law schools worldwide that specialize in the research and teaching of environmental law.

Primary among these is Title 40 of the Code of Federal Regulations, containing the regulations of the Environmental Protection Agency.

The U. S. Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) is the most well-known federal agency, with jurisdiction over many of the country's national air, water and waste and hazardous substance programs.

Today Environmental health is more related to nutrition, preventive medicine, aging well and other concerns specific to the human body's well-being.

* Environmental justice is a movement that began in the U. S. in the 1980s and seeks an end to environmental racism.

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.