Federal Environmental Policy: A Summary Overview

1996 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roy R. Carriker
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Related Problem ◽  
Regulatory Reform ◽  
The United States ◽  
Environmental Concerns ◽  
Pesticide Use ◽  
National Environmental Policy Act ◽  
Wildlife Protection ◽  
Hazardous Waste Management ◽  
National Environmental

AbstractThe National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), which was signed into law on January 1,1970, has come to be regarded as the first major piece of federal legislation to call for comprehensive attention to environmental concerns in the United States. During the two decades following enactment of NEPA, Congress adopted and then refined major legislation on nearly every aspect of environmental quality concerns: air pollution, water pollution, drinking water quality, hazardous waste management, wildlife protection, pesticide use, and several related problem areas. Current arguments for environmental regulatory reform are a phase in the continuing evolution of this body of federal environmental policy.

scholarly journals The Santa Barbara Oil Spill and Its Effect on United States Environmental Policy

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 2750 ◽  
Author(s):  
Teresa Sabol Spezio
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Oil Spill ◽  
The United States ◽  
National Environmental Policy Act ◽  
Santa Barbara ◽  
Environmental Decision Making ◽  
Proactive Approach ◽  
National Environmental

The National Environmental Policy Act of 1970 (NEPA) paved the way for comprehensive federal environmental policy in the United States. NEPA has successfully allowed citizens and others to become active participants in the environmental decision-making process for federal infrastructure projects throughout the evolution of environmental policy in the United States. Its efficacy was enhanced because of an oil spill off the Santa Barbara coast in January 1969. This disaster gave the framers of NEPA an example of the consequences of the lack of environmental policy in federal decision making. Using their original proactive approach along with the reactive response to the spill, they created a policy that has can be seen as a foundation for 21st century sustainability and resilience programs.

Environmental injustices in immigrant detention: How absences are embedded in the National Environmental Policy Act process

2020 ◽  
pp. 251484862090973
Author(s):  
Michelle L. Edwards ◽  
Briana Luna ◽  
Hannah Edwards
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Homeland Security ◽  
The United States ◽  
Assessment Process ◽  
National Environmental Policy Act ◽  
Environmental Assessments ◽  
Immigrant Detention ◽  
National Environmental ◽  
National Environmental Policy

The United States’ National Environmental Policy Act is a knowledge production process required by federal government agencies to assist in their evaluation of the environmental (and social) impacts of proposed federal agency actions prior to their implementation. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which manages immigrant detention in the United States, is included among these federal agencies. Using Texas as a case study, we explore how the National Environmental Policy Act process, as it relates to immigrant detention, systematically produces ignorance while also producing knowledge. We identify four forms of absence: absence of process in Department of Homeland Security’s use of Categorical Exclusions and programmatic Environmental Assessments, absence of actors in the exclusion of people who are detained as an “affected” social group, absence of alternatives in how “meaningful alternatives” are identified in Environmental Assessments, and absence of discourse with the public in the Environmental Assessment process. In addition, we consider how these absences reflect and perpetuate existing social and environmental inequalities.

Translating Tribal Values

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theresa Pasqual
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Historic Preservation ◽  
National Environmental Policy Act ◽  
Tribal Member ◽  
Cultural Properties ◽  
Tribal Governments ◽  
Traditional Cultural Properties ◽  
Number Of Individuals ◽  
National Environmental

Tribal governments in the Southwest employ a number of individuals to help with the preservation of tribal values and places. In this chapter, Theresa Pasqual, former director of Acoma Pueblo’s Historic Preservation Office and an Acoma tribal member, talks about her professional pathway, how Acoma has worked with other tribes to protect traditional cultural properties (TCPs), the challenges that tribes face in implementing the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), and how tribal values can be incorporated into the preservation process. Based on her long experience, she emphasizes the importance of stewardship, listening, and collaboration—with the latter including collaboration between tribes as well as with archaeologists, anthropologists, and historians. She also provides insights into the process for the recent successful nomination of Mount Taylor to the New Mexico Register of Cultural Historic Properties, the largest such property currently on the register.

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