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Employees. 4200 (2021) Annual budget. US$1.44 billion (FY15–16) Agency executive. Shawn Hamilton, Secretary. Website. www.floridadep.gov. The Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) is the Florida government agency responsible for environmental protection.
Point source water pollution comes from discrete conveyances and alters the chemical, biological, and physical characteristics of water. In the United States, it is largely regulated by the Clean Water Act (CWA). [1] Among other things, the Act requires dischargers to obtain a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit to ...
Regulatory takings in the United States. In United States constitutional law, a regulatory taking occurs when governmental regulations limit the use of private property to such a degree that the landowner is effectively deprived of all economically reasonable use or value of their property. Under the Fifth Amendment to the United States ...
DEP has made a concerted effort to eliminate the overdue permit backlog and modernize our permitting processes. Since hiring additional staff members and cataloging and reviewing DEP's nearly 800 ...
RUSS BYNUM. August 26, 2024 at 5:56 PM. SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A federal agency plans to reassess its environmental permit for Hyundai's $7.6 billion electric vehicle plant in Georgia after a ...
An environmental impact statement (EIS), under United States environmental law, is a document required by the 1969 National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) for certain actions "significantly affecting the quality of the human environment". [1] An EIS is a tool for decision making. It describes the positive and negative environmental effects of ...
Signed into law by President Jimmy Carter on August 3, 1977. The Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (SMCRA) is the primary federal law that regulates the environmental effects of coal mining in the United States. SMCRA created two programs: one for regulating active coal mines and a second for reclaiming abandoned mine lands.
This ruling, along with reforms to the employment law forbidding hiring discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation in 2010 and the registration of Botswana's largest LGBT advocacy organisation, LEGABIBO (Lesbians, Gays & Bisexuals of Botswana), in 2016, [11] have cemented Botswana as a "[leader] in Southern Africa".