What Is The Environmental Protection Agency?
President Richard Nixon created the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 1970. It administers the vast majority of environmental laws and also coordinates environmental policies. Some of the …
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What Is The Council On Environmental Quality?
The Council on Environmental Quality was established by the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969. It annually reports to the president about the current state of the environment and what …
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What Is The Clean Air Act?
The Clean Air Act was established in 1955. In 1970, the responsibility for setting airquality standards was switched from the state governments to the federal one. The EPA became responsible …
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3 Infamous Environmental Lawsuits
Environmental law cases are important for both the litigants and the public at large. It is expensive to defend an environmental case and it can be even more expensive to lose an environmental case. Thus, high verdicts and settlements send a message to other businesses to be careful in the way that they conduct business so as to avoid environmental catastrophes and the resulting …
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Common Environmental Law Violations
Federal environmental law is complex. It regulates many different things from protecting endangered species, to the production of energy and from protecting the water that we drink, to protecting the air that we breathe. The many different complicated laws that make up federal environmental law are inevitably broken from time to time. Some laws are broken by accident and others …
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