Unlike command-and-control regulations, which may directly limit discharges into the environment, mandated environmental assessments protect the environment indirectly by increasing the quantity and quality of publicly available information on the environmental consequences of contemplated actions.
Never mind that fishermen, delta farmers, hotels, tackle manufacturers, Tribes, and many others support protecting and revitalizing the Delta, because these environmental laws protect their jobs and livelihoods.
The third category involves environmental management: "protecting the environment", and "dealing with climate change".
Such a simple measure, if accompanied by hygiene education and environmental improvements, protects the well against faecal contamination or other pollutants.
Recently, a series of fatal shark bites in Western Australian waters led to an unusual exemption for the state government from federal environmental laws protecting white sharks.
But an environmental lawsuit protecting the striped bass in the river halted the plan, and the government was left holding the piers.
When garments have been certified to the Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS), this also means that the factories where they're made have met strict social and environmental criteria, protecting people and the environment from field to finished product.
In Winter v. National Resources Defense Council, the question was whether the Navy had to comply with a federal environmental law protecting dolphins and other wildlife while conducting submarine exercises off California.
Strict environmental legislation protects the polar bears on Svalbard, and it believes the production may have fallen foul of the regulations after filming the animals from the ice cube.
Physical (environmental) security protects the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of physical assets: people, buildings, systems, and data.
