The phrase "environmental authorization" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe the permission or approval granted by a government or regulatory body for an activity or project that is known to have an impact on the environment. For example, "The project was unable to go ahead until an environmental authorization had been granted by the local council."
Notwithstanding this, environmental authorities want comprehensive ESIAs and ESMPs, and if some omitted item, even trivial, is picked up then environmental authorization is withheld.
Tegeta has been mining for two years without environmental authorization or a water use permit, according to the Afrikaans-language newspaper, Beeld.
Obtaining environmental authorization took more than two years.
In September, it accused the compoany of violating worker safety rules a week after pulling environmental authorization for the project.
In September, it accused Shell of violating worker safety rules a week after pulling environmental authorization for the project.
At Eskom's Ingula Pumped Storage Scheme in South Africa (Table 2, item 4) a condition of environmental authorization was to offset wetland and other resource loss by acquiring, rehabilitating and managing surrounding land, including a large wetland, as protected area.
The government has also acknowleged that 21 of Eskom's coal suppliers were operating outside the law, without environmental authorizations or the required water use licenses.
Most ESIAs, environmental authorizations and ESMPs focus on the preventable.
On most projects the ESIAs, environmental authorizations, ESMPs and day-to-day management poorly cover strategy and external threats.
A common feature of environmental legislation is legislative authorization to act on the basis of anticipated harm, making scientific uncertainty an unavoidable aspect of regulatory science.
With the help of a political odd couple, Bill Bradley in the Senate and Newt Gingrich in the House, Sterling Forest was de-linked from this and other anti-environmental bills and the authorization was eventually passed as a freestanding measure.
