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The Basic Environmental Law is the basic structure of Japan's environmental policies replacing the Basic Law for Environmental Pollution Control and the Nature Conservation Law. The updated law aims to address "global environmental problems, urban pollution by everyday life, loss of accessible natural environment in urban areas and degrading ...
The history of environmental law in the US can be traced back to early roots in common law doctrines, for example, the law of nuisance and the public trust doctrine. The first environmental statute was the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899, which has been largely superseded by the Clean Water Act (CWA). However, most current major environmental ...
The laws listed below meet the following criteria: (1) they were passed by the United States Congress, and (2) pertain to (a) the regulation of the interaction of humans and the natural environment, or (b) the conservation and/or management of natural or historic resources.
Environmental Protection Law (Latvia) Fishery Law; Forestry Law; Hunting Law (2003) Law on Chemical Substances and Chemical Products; Law on the Conservation of Species and Biotopes; Law on End-of Life Vehicles Management; Law on Environmental Impact Assessment (Latvia) (amended until 2005) Law on Environmental Protection (Latvia) Law on Pollution
This is a list of international environmental agreements. Most of the following agreements are legally binding for countries that have formally ratified them. Some, such as the Kyoto Protocol , differentiate between types of countries and each nation's respective responsibilities under the agreement.
An international environmental agreement or sometimes environmental protocol, is a type of treaty binding in international law, allowing them to reach an environmental goal. In other words, it is "an intergovernmental document intended as legally binding with a primary stated purpose of preventing or managing human impacts on natural resources ."
Earth law; Ecocide; Energy law; Environmental cleanup law; Environmental impact of the Israel–Hamas war; Environmental engineering law; Environmental Foundation Limited; Environmental impact assessment; Environmental personhood; The Environmental Provisions of Oslo II Accords; Eco-tariff; Environmental tax
In the United States, there is no federal environmental rights amendment in the United States. [2] While environmental rights are mentioned in a number of state constitutions, the state of Pennsylvania was the first to pass an actual environmental rights amendment [4] as part of their state's bill of rights in 1971. Montana added environmental ...