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Environmental science came alive as a substantive, active field of scientific investigation in the 1960s and 1970s driven by ( a ) the need for a multi-disciplinary approach to analyze complex environmental problems, ( b ) the arrival of substantive environmental laws requiring specific environmental protocols of investigation and ( c ) the growing public awareness of a need for action in addressing environmental problems.
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The report criticized the Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) for their 1993 study about the cancer risks of passive smoking, calling it " junk science ".
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For its science students, USC operates the Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies located on Catalina Island just off the coast of Los Angeles and home to the Philip K. Wrigley Marine Science Center.
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Other inspiration for the book likely came from the 1972 book Ecotage !, which was published by the group Environmental Action and was in turn inspired by the actions of an activist in the Chicago, Illinois area who called himself " The Fox ", and engaged in such vigilante actions to protect the environment as plugging smokestacks.
Health concerns came to light in August 2002, when the Center for Environmental Health discovered that many popular vinyl lunch boxes contained dangerously high levels of lead.
The Svalbard Environmental Protection Act came into effect in 2002 and was followed up with three new national parks and three new nature reserves.
At closing, however, the contract was assigned and title was taken in the name of the Palisades Interstate Park Commission, a federally chartered commission, although the funds for the purchase apparently came from the New York state Environmental Protection Fund.
The Ministry of Transportation and Communications was charged with violating the newly enacted Environmental Assessment Act, which it contested came into effect after construction of the Highway 404 extension had begun.
Jeffery's book, " Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design " came out in 1971, but his work was ignored throughout the 1970s.
The Act came into force on March 31, 2000 and replaced the original Canadian Environmental Protection Act from 1988.
In 2005, Gorton ’ s came under attack from the Environmental Investigation Agency, The Humane Society of the United States ( HSUS ) and Greenpeace, due to their parent company ’ s involvement in whaling in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary.
The School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and the Duke University Marine Lab ( both formed in 1938 ) came together in 1991 to become the School of Environment, which was named the Nicholas School of the Environment in 1995 following a $ 20 million gift from Peter M. and Ginny Nicholas.
A moderate-to-liberal Democrat, Backus ran for the U. S. Senate in 1994 and beat Douglas M. Costle, Environmental Protection Agency administrator under President Jimmy Carter, for her party's nomination and came within 9 points of ousting incumbent U. S. Senator Jim Jeffords ( R-VT ).
For example, in a seemingly routine Environmental Impact Report for the city of Monterey, California, information came to light that led to the official federal endangered species listing of Hickman's potentilla, a rare coastal wildflower.
A critical move forward came when the United States Congress passed the National Environmental Education Act of 1990, which placed the Office of Environmental Education in the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency and allowed the EPA to create environmental education initiatives at the federal level.
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According to a white paper authored by Intel and the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, PCs with internal power supplies will require the use of active power factor correction to meet the ENERGY STAR 5. 0 Program Requirements for Computers.
Many students from Tulane ’ s two active environmental groups, Green Club and Environmental Law Society, attended.
Today Strong is an active honorary professor at Peking University and Honorary Chairman of its Environmental Foundation.
She was also highly active in various environmental organizations such as the New Zealand Biological Producers ' Council, the Campaign Climate for Change ( which she founded ), and the Environmental Council.
Browner then headed the Florida Department of Environmental Regulation from 1991 to 1993, where she turned it into one of the most active departments in the state government.
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 ).
By applying an adaptive management approach to community development the resulting sysems can develop built in sustainable practice as explained by the Environmental Advisory Council ( 2002 ), “ active adaptive management views policy as a set of experiments designed to reveal processes that build or sustain resilience.
* NOAA / Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory profiling float project deploys floats as part of the Argo program, provides data on-line, and is active in delayed-mode salinity calibration and quality control for US Argo floats.
Environmental group WWF was particularly active in the establishment of the protected area.
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