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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE 1

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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE

Environmental legislation can be described to be an essential collection of regulations and

functional laws which are concerned with the quality of water, quality of air, endangered

wildlife, the rough country, among other environmental aspects (Wathern, 2013). The scope of

environmental covers different varieties of regulations and laws but are geared towards realizing

a common goal which is to continuously monitor the interactional relationship between human

beings and nature hence ensuring that threats to environment are mitigated accordingly.

Content of the legislation

Basically this legislation comprises of regulatory policies, mandates as well as purposes that are

expected to be achieved in an appropriate methodology that practitioners who operate in the

environment employ. NEPA has been identified over the years to be an appropriate charter

which guarantee the protection of the surroundings by ensuring that the available federal

agencies are considerate of their impacts on the environment by their actions and systematic

ways of accomplishing missions; it adherently integrate, interpret, regulate and implement

necessary environmental requirements to interested parties (Dunlap, 2014).

Process of passing the legislation

In order for this environmental Act to be ascended to into law, it had to pass through different

levels where it was reviewed and adjusted accordingly by the legislatures and officials who were

involved.

Drafting the Act in the Senate; at this stage, the legislation was presented to the Senate by

Senator Henry Jackson. He regarded the bill to be a paper work that was meant to provide ample

guidance unto the national policy on environmental management. During hearing at the Congress

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1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE Environmental Science Name Instructor Institutional Affiliation Date ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE Environmental legislation can be described to be an essential collection of regulations and functional laws which are concerned with the quality of water, quality of air, endangered wildlife, the rough country, among other environmental aspects (Wathern, 2013). The scope of environmental covers different varieties of regulations and laws but are geared towards realizing a common goal which is to continuously monitor the interactional relationship between human beings and nature hence ensuring that threats to environment are mitigated accordingly. Content of the legislation Basically this legislation comprises of regulatory policies, mandates as well as purposes that are expected to be achieved in an appropriate methodology that practitioners who operate in the environment employ. NEPA has been identified over the years to be an appropriate charter which guarantee the protection of the surroundings by ensuring that the available federal agencies are considerate of their impacts on the environment by their actions and systematic ways of accomplishing missions; it adherently integrate, interpret, regulate and implement necessary environmental requirements to interested parties (Dunlap, 2014). Process of passing the legislation In order for this environmental Act to be ascended to into law, it had to pass through different levels where it was reviewed and ...
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