11:375:101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Environmental Audit, Environmental Impact Statement, Environmental Policy
18 Sep 2018
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National environmental policy act (nepa) - created the council on environmental quality. Requires environmental impact statement for any federal action that might impact the environment. This policy forces the government to evaluate environmental impacts of a project. These laws have been highly effective, most pollution we have today is old pollution. Citizens can view these laws as restrictions on freedom. Costly and maybe less efficient in achieving goals. Government regulations ar overly restrictive or unresponsive to human needs. Students can pressure campuses to carry out environmental audits. Gather data on practices that affect environment. 4. 5 billion years ago, earth was a very hostile place. No life as we know today existed back then. Propose a scientific hypothesis to explain observations. A theory is something that"s been tested many times. Scientific knowledge advances through publishing in journals that"s been peer reviewed. Rarely overturned unless new evidence discredits them. Scientific law and the law of nature.
