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| can be viewed as any change or disturbance to the soil perceived to be deleterious or undesirable |
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| significant and lasting change in the statistical distributionover weather patterns ranging from decades to millions of years |
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| an act of vesting the legislative, executive, and judicial powers of government in separate bodies |
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| a formal written enactment of a legislative authority that governs a state, city, or country. |
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| any association of individuals or organizations, usually formally organized on the basis of one or more shared concerns attempts to influence public policy in their favor |
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| annual event celebrated on Aprill 22nd on which events are held worldwide ot demostrate support for environmental protection |
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| systematic process for calculating and comparing benefits and costs of a project, decision, or government policy (justifies and serves as a basis to compare projects) |
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| describes a social movement in the United States whose focus is on the fair distribution of environmental benefits and burdens |
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| act of attempting to influence decisions made by officials in the government, most often legislators or members of regulatory agencies |
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| administrative presidency |
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| employ non-legislative means to control actions of executive agencies to expand or narrow government activity (appointments, executive orders, vigor of enforcement, budgetary actions) |
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| environmental impact statement |
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| document required by the National Environment policy act for certain actions. tool used for decision making, describes the positive and negative environmental effects of a proposed action |
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| written in 1973 designed to protect critically imperiled species from extinction |
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| steady decline of 4% per decade in total volume of ozone in earth's stratosphere and a much larger springtime decrease in stratospheric ozone over Earth's polar regions. |
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| rise in the average temperature of Earth's atmosphere and oceans since the late 19th century and its projected continulation. |
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| Department of the Interior |
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| United States federal executive department of the US government responsible for the management and conservation of most federal land and natural resources |
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| President issues orders to help officers and agencies of the executive branch manage the operations within the federal government itself |
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| a bill that creates a new federal program, extend the life of an existing program, or repeals existing law. Authorizing bills usually set a limit on the amount of funds that can be spent annually by a program over a period of three to five years |
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