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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 The first environmental statute was the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899, which has been largely superseded by the Clean Water Act (CWA).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 ...
In many situations of environmental regulations, state and federal governments have Concurrent powers, where each government is permitted to have its own regulation. When the federal government would like state governments to take certain actions, the federal government may use conditional spending provisions , offering money if states take the ...
Environmental laws are laws that protect the environment. [1] The term "environmental law" encompasses treaties , statutes , regulations , conventions , and policies designed to protect the natural environment and manage the impact of human activities on ecosystems and natural resources , such as forests , minerals , or fisheries.
Environmental science is an interdisciplinary academic field that integrates physics, biology, meteorology, mathematics and geography (including ecology, chemistry, plant science, zoology, mineralogy, oceanography, limnology, soil science, geology and physical geography, and atmospheric science) to the study of the environment, and the solution of environmental problems.
The concept of the regulation of the internal environment was described by French physiologist Claude Bernard in 1849, and the word homeostasis was coined by Walter Bradford Cannon in 1926. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] In 1932, Joseph Barcroft a British physiologist, was the first to say that higher brain function required the most stable internal environment.
[1] Regulation of biological processes occurs when any process is modulated in its frequency, rate or extent. Biological processes are regulated by many means; examples include the control of gene expression , protein modification or interaction with a protein or substrate molecule .
A regulatory agency (regulatory body, regulator) or independent agency (independent regulatory agency) is a government authority that is responsible for exercising autonomous jurisdiction over some area of human activity in a licensing and regulating capacity.
Allostasis (/ˌɑːloʊˈsteɪsɪs/) is a physiological mechanism of regulation in which an organism anticipates and adjusts its energy use according to environmental demands.