Environmental laws are laws that protect the environment. The term "environmental law" encompasses treaties, statutes, regulations, conventions, and policies designed to protect the natural environmen
Industrial air pollution now regulated by air quality law
A typical stormwater outfall, subject to water quality law
A municipal landfill, operated pursuant to waste management law
Oil spill emergency response, governed by environmental cleanup law
Environmental justice is a social movement that addresses perceived injustice which are alleged to occur when poor or marginalized communities are harmed by hazardous waste, resource extraction, and o
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Low-income workers in Ghana recycling waste from high-income countries, with recycling conditions heavily polluting the Agbogbloshie area.
Highway marker in Afton commemorating the 1982 North Carolina PCB landfill protests.
Council member Debora Juarez gives a speech at the designation of May 5th as Seattle's Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.
Cattle in the River Ganges with pollution on the bank