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The concept "precautionary principle" is generally considered to have arisen in English from a translation of the German term Vorsorgeprinzip in the 1970s in response to forest degradation and sea pollution, where German lawmakers adopted clean air act banning use of certain substances suspected in causing the environmental damage even though evidence of their impact was inconclusive at that ...
Polluter pays principle, that is, make the party responsible for producing pollution responsible for paying for the damage done to the environment. The aim of the States-Parties to the Convention is to prevent and eliminate pollution of the marine environment of the Baltic Sea Area caused by harmful substances [4] from all sources, including:
The Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships (APPS, 33 U.S.C. §§1905-1915) is a United States law that implements the provisions of MARPOL 73/78 and the annexes of MARPOL to which the United States is a party.
At a Monday meeting of the legislative Water and Natural Resources committee, a Colorado researcher presented findings that Loving, located in oil and gas powerhouse Eddy County, has seen an ...
In the resolution, introduced in late February, House Republican lawmakers are "asking the cabinet to violate federal law," said Randy Strobo, an environmental lawyer who works with the Kentucky ...
The Environment Department will ask lawmakers in the 2025 legislative session to give the state the authority to oversee federal pollution discharge permits, a required step in the process, Maez ...
Oil Pollution Act of 1961, 33 U.S.C. Chapter 20 §§ 1001–1011, established judicial definitions and coastal prohibitions for the United States maritime industry.The Act invoked the accords of the International Convention for the Prevention of the Pollution of the Sea by Oil, 1954.
Trump and his cabinet appointees did not believe the consensus of most scientists that climate change will have catastrophic impacts [10] nor that carbon dioxide is a primary contributor to climate change. [11] Trump pulled the United States out of the Paris climate accord, leaving the U.S. the only nation that was not part of the agreement.