Federal Environmental Impact Statements: Overly Inflated Needs Result in Needless Environmental Harm

Guidelines of the Council on Environmental Quality for the preparation of environmental impact statements.

Definitions and the seven principles of ecology are listed. NEPA expresses or implies all seven. Section 101 is quoted in illustration. CEQ Guidelines implement Sec. 102(2)(C). The reasons for initial delays in implementation are reviewed; these are now largely resolved. The policy involves action through integrating engineering, economics and ecology. Alternative actions must be considered, an...

Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 Federal Environmental Quality Guidelines Cobalt

investigating the quality of wildlife and biodiversity terms of reference in environmental impact statements

human activities due to implementation of projects has caused significant concerns on biodiversity in human societies. hence, assessing the environmental impacts of those projects has been considered as a tool to help environmental managers to prevent emergence of those adverse impacts in general and those impacts which are related to biodiversity, in particular. it is provided that all compone...

DDT, epigenetic harm, and transgenerational environmental justice

Although the environmentally harmful effects of widespread dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) use became well-known following Rachel Carson's Silent Spring (1962), its human health effects have more recently become clearer. A ban on the use of DDT has been in place for over 30 years, but recently DDT has been used for malaria control in areas such as Africa. Recent work shows that DDT has tr...

Environmental health needs in a dynamic society.

When we speak of a healthful environment, we think mainly of safe, wholesome, palatable water, of a healthful diet, of clean air, and of shelter for our families where they live, and work, and rest. The need for a healthful environment is common to all peoples: it cuts across boundaries of occupation, race, class, and politics. If it differs from neighborhood to neighborhood, and from region to...