Download or read book The National Environmental Policy Act a Study of Its Effectiveness After Twenty Five Year written by Executive Office Executive Office of the President and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-04 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While United States conservation efforts began more than one hundred years ago, the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) was the first law to focus environmental concerns within a comprehensive national policy. NEPA's call for "productive harmony" between "man and nature" presaged today's interest in "sustainable development." On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the act, the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) initiated a NEPA Effectiveness Study to examine NEPA's effectiveness and prospects for improvements to the NEPA process. CEQ included in the Study organizations and individuals who are knowledgeable and experienced in the application of NEPA, both those who support NEPA, and those who are critical. The findings of this Study can be summarized as follows:The Study participants felt that NEPA's most enduring legacy is as a framework for collaboration between federal agencies and those who will bear the environmental, social, and economic impacts of agency decisions. However, Study participants also stated that frequently NEPA takes too long and costs too much, agencies make decisions before hearing from the public, documents are too long and technical for many people to use, and training for agency officials at times is inadequate.The participants in the NEPA Effectiveness Study identified five elements of the NEPA process that are critical to its effective and efficient implementation.
Download or read book The National Environmental Policy Act written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The National Environmental Policy Act written by U.S. Council on Environmental Quality and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The National Environmental Policy Act written by Lynton Keith Caldwell and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1999-02-22 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The National Environmental Policy Act has grown more, not less, important in the decades since its enactment. No one knows more about NEPA than Lynton Caldwell. And no one has a clearer vision of its relevance to our future. Highly recommended." —David W. Orr, Oberlin College What has been achieved since the National Environmental Policy Act was passed in 1969? This book points out where and how NEPA has affected national environmental policy and where and why its intent has been frustrated. The roles of Congress, the President, and the courts in the implementation of NEPA are analyzed. Professor Caldwell also looks at the conflicted state of public opinion regarding the environment and conjectures as to what must be done in order to develop a coherent and sustained policy.
Download or read book Environmental Policy and NEPA written by E. Ray Clark and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1997-06-13 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmental Policy and NEPA is a concise study of environmental policy-where we have come from, what we are facing and where we can go in the future. An outgrowth of initiatives taken by the Council of Environmental Quality (CEQ), and edited by the current Associate Director, this publication studies the effectiveness and efficiency of the implementation of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). Divided into three main sections, part one covers the historical background and trends of NEPA. Part two addresses current substantive and conceptual issues associated with the environmental impact assessment (EIA) process. Part three discusses future opportunities including impact on humans, effective public participation in the EIA process and the need for sustainability. This excellent reference brings together 28 contributing authors who combine their expertise to address a multitude of topics. Environmental Policy and NEPA is mandatory reading for the professional, researcher, government policymaker, activist, student or anyone looking for a complete presentation of the EIA process.
Download or read book The National Environmental Policy Act written by Daniel R. Mandelker and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The National Environmental Policy Act (“NEPA”), the Magna Carta of environmental law, requires all federal agencies to evaluate the environmental impacts of their actions, a duty that extends to state, local, and private entities when a federal link is present. Though followed by legislation that enacted massive duties to protect air, water, and other natural resources, NEPA remains a critical environmental law. This article looks at major elements in NEPA's implementation and the major contributions NEPA has made to environmental analysis. It reviews strengths and weaknesses and suggests where improvement can occur as NEPA moves forward as a protector of environmental values. The article's focus is on encouraging agencies to take a wider view of the environmental impacts they consider in a decision making process that is less confining than the process now in place. Part I begins the analysis by reviewing NEPA's record as an environmental statute, noting achievements the statute has attained and criticisms it has attracted. Part II reviews the NEPA decision making process, assessing whether it has been effective as a means of carrying out NEPA's environmental mandate. Part III considers how NEPA applies to agency projects as compared with agency plans and programs, and how NEPA's effectiveness differs in these two settings. Part IV considers the “heart” of the environmental impact statement, the duty to consider alternatives to a proposed action, and how the courts have interpreted this requirement. Part V examines agency duties to extend their environmental analysis beyond the proposal under review by considering its indirect impacts. Part VI concludes by asking, in view of this discussion, whether NEPA has met the environmental challenge the statute was intended to meet.
Download or read book NEPA in the Courts written by Frederick R. Anderson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the courts' interpretation of NEPA in its first three years, defeats and successes of citizens' actions in key cases, and implication of court rulings for the act's future effectiveness. Originally published in 1973
Download or read book The National Environmental Policy Act Process Study written by Council on Environmental Quality (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The National Environmental Policy Act written by Matthew J. Ph. D. Lindstrom and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2008-04-11 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmental degradation and the compromised integrity of the earth's ecological system were growing public concerns in the mid to late 1960s. These issues spurred Congress to pass the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA), the first law to focus such environmental concerns into a comprehensive national policy. The new legislation encompassed an array of environmental values and ethics, as well as administrative tools to achieve the ecological goals of the nation while taking into account other important societal needs. Though NEPA has had a positive effect on U.S. environmental policy and the national quality of life, this challenging new book shows how federal courts and agencies have failed to implement many of the values and goals fundamental to the success of NEPA. To explain this divergence, authors Matthew J. Lindstrom and Zachary A. Smith examine NEPA's origins, address how NEPA has been implemented and enforced, and highlight the shortcomings of its practice. Lindstrom and Smith strongly argue that if NEPA were fully and properly implemented, it would prove to be a valuable and realistic tool for balancing the needs of the world population and the protection of the earth's environment. They offer a new, hopeful look at how the law's structure can be properly utilized in order to give future generations hope of living on a sustainable planet. This book is well suited for audiences interested in public policy formation and implementation, especially environmental policy administrators, environmental historians, and those involved in environmental law, its policy, and its politics.
Download or read book Administration of the National Environmental Policy Act 1972 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Subcommittee on Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Exploring National Environmental Policy Act Processes Across Federal Land Management Agencies written by Marc J. Stern and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Broad discretion is granted at all levels throughout federal land management agencies regarding compliance with the National Environ. Policy Act (NEPA). The authors explored the diversity of procedures employed in NEPA processes across four agencies, the Forest Service, the Nat. Park Service, the Bureau of Land Management, and the U.S. Army Corps of Eng. There is a lack of consistency not only between, but also within, agencies with regard to how NEPA is implemented. This report focuses on how successful NEPA processes are defined within each agency and what strategies are the most or least beneficial to positive NEPA outcomes. Also identifies unresolved questions about NEPA processes and presents a research strategy for addressing them.
Download or read book The National Environmental Policy Act and Its Implementation written by Robert Lazear and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Strengthen the National Environmental Policy Act written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book National Environmental Policy NEPA Process written by K.S. Murthy and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-01-18 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is mainly about the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969 and the process for its implementation. This is most often called theNEPA process. The need for this book arises because, although the awareness for faithful implementation of NEPA has now matured, the method of NEPA implementation is not always known, and hence, needs to be clearly laid out for the benefit of project engineers and the decision makers in government and industry. This book aims to do that.
Download or read book Guide to the National Environmental Policy Act written by Valerie M. Fogleman and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1990-10-17 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a practical reference and guide to compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The author presents a comprehensive legal analysis of the statute itself, its implementing regulations, and the hundreds of interpretive judicial decisions, drawing them together in a clear, organized and readable format. The volume also includes an analysis of issues frequently raised in NEPA litigation, a review of every aspect of NEPA law developed during the years since its enactment, and a comparison of key state statutes with NEPA.
