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Record Nr.

UNINA9910962889703321

Autore

Greenberg Michael R

Titolo

Environmental impact statement : final draft, pursuant to Montana environmental policy act, section 69-6504 (b) (3) : Montana Department of Highways roadside weed control program

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Helena], : Montana Dept. of Highways, 1973

ISBN

9781299693517

1299693512

9781136636271

1136636277

9780203803837

0203803833

Edizione

[1st edition]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (249 p.)

1 online resource

Collana

Natural and built environment series

Disciplina

625.77

Soggetti

Environmental impact statements - Law and legislation - United States

Environmental impact statements - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The Environmental Impact Statement after Two Generations  Managing environmental power; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 A statement of values and forty years of field trials; 2 Metropolitan new jersey: transportation, sprawl and urban revitalization; 3 Ellis island New York Harbor: time closes in on a national cultural treasure; 4 Sparrows point, maryland:proposed liquefied natural gas facilities; 5 Johnston Island: destruction of the US chemical weapons stockpile

6 Savannah River Nuclear Weapons Facility: managing the legacy of the military's nuclear factory7 Animas-La plata, four corners: water rights and the ute legacy; 8 NEPA and the challenges of the early twenty-first century; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book is about a subject that Michael Greenberg has worked on and lived with for almost forty years. He was brought up in the south Bronx at a time when his neighborhood suffered from terrible air and noise



pollution, and domestic waste went untreated into the Hudson River. For him, the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) was a blessing. It included an ethical position about the environment, and the law required some level of accountability in the form of an environmental impact statement, or EIS. After forty years of thinking about and working with NEPA and th