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The Environment Protection Authority Victoria (EPA) is Victoria’s environmental regulator. EPA is an independent statutory authority, established in 1971 under the Environment Protection Act 1970 (EP Act). EPA's role is to prevent and reduce the harmful effects of pollution and waste on Victorians and their environment. [1]
This act was amended by the Environment Protection Amendment Act 2018 and was introduced in 2021. Main improvements: Sets 11 principles of environment protection: Principle of integration of environmental, social and economic considerations; Principle of proportionality; Principle of primacy of prevention; Principle of shared responsibility
Reorganization Plan No. 3 was a United States presidential directive establishing the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), effective December 2, 1970. [1] The order, published in the Federal Register on October 6, 1970, consolidated components from different federal agencies to form the EPA, "a strong, independent agency " that would ...
That statute is the product of multiple acts of Congress, one of which—the 1963 act—was actually titled the Clean Air Act, and another of which—the 1970 act—is most often referred to as such. [2] [3] In the U.S. Code, the statute itself is divided into subchapters, and the section numbers are not clearly related to the subchapters.
The Clean Air Act amendments of 1970 (CAA) and the Federal Water Pollution Control Act amendments of 1972 (Clean Water Act) moved environmental concerns in a new direction. The new CAA standards that were to be promulgated were unattainable with existing technology—they were technology-forcing.
This is a list of notable events relating to the environment in 1970. They relate to environmental law , conservation , environmentalism and environmental issues . Events
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Environmental law is the collection of laws, regulations, agreements and common law that governs how humans interact with their environment. [2] This includes environmental regulations; laws governing management of natural resources, such as forests, minerals, or fisheries; and related topics such as environmental impact assessments.