Environmental law Environmental law The BPEO, or Best Practicable Environmental Option (Twelfth Report, FEB 1988, Cm 310), is a set of procedures adopted by Great Britain with the goal of managing waste and other environmental concerns. According to the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, BPEO "emphasises the protection and conservation of the environment across land, air and water. The BPEO procedure establishes for a given set of objectives, the option that provides the most benefits or the least damage to the environment, as a whole, at acceptable cost, in the long term as well as in the short term." ...more on Wikipedia about "BPEO"
A carbon tax is a tax on energy sources which emit carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. It is an example of a pollution tax, which has been proposed by economists as preferable because it taxes a "bad" rather than a "good" (such as income). ...more on Wikipedia about "Carbon tax"
Container deposit legislation are laws passed by city, state, provincial, or national governments that require that a deposit on beverage containers be collected when the beverage is sold. When the container is returned to an authorized redemption center, the deposit is partially or completely refunded to the consumer. In the United States, these laws are also popularly called bottle bills after the Oregon Bottle Bill, the first container deposit legislation passed in the U.S. ...more on Wikipedia about "Container deposit legislation"
Devil's Lake (often written as Devils Lake) is a freshwater lake in the U.S. state of North Dakota. It is the largest natural body of water in the state and the second largest after the artificially created Lake Sakakawea. In 2004, it reached a historical high elevation of 1449.1 ft (441.69 m), an area of 216 mi² (560 km²), and a volume of 2.7 million acre-feet (3.3 km³). ...more on Wikipedia about "Devil's Lake (North Dakota)"
The Environment Act 1995 is a United Kingdom Act of Parliament which created a number of new agencies and set new standards for environmental management. ...more on Wikipedia about "Environment Act 1995"
An Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is an assessment of the likely human environmental health impact, risk to ecological health, and changes to nature's services that a project may have. The purpose of the assessment is to ensure that decision-makers consider environmental impacts before deciding whether to proceed with new projects. ...more on Wikipedia about "Environmental impact assessment"
Environmental law is a body of law, which is a system of complex and interlocking rules, regulations and policies which seeks to protect the natural environment which may be affected, impacted or even endangered by human activities. Most environmental laws regulate the quantity and nature of impacts of human activities: for example, setting allowable levels of pollution. Other environmental laws are preventative in nature and seek to assess the possible impacts before the human activities can occur. This area of law is known as environmental impact assessment. ...more on Wikipedia about "Environmental law"
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International environmental law is the body of international law that concerns the protection of the global environment. ...more on Wikipedia about "International environmental law"
A nuclear-free zone is an area where nuclear weapons and/or nuclear power are banned. ...more on Wikipedia about "Nuclear-free zone"
Poaching is illegal hunting or fishing. It may be illegal because: ...more on Wikipedia about "Poaching"
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