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riparian rights : A doctrine of state water law under which a land owner is entitled to use the water on or bordering his property, including the right to prevent diversion or misuse of upstream waters.
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law - an act or bill which has become part of the legal code through passage by Congress and approval by the President (or via Congressional override).
Beer's Law (Beer-Lambert law) - For monochromatic radiation, absorbance (A) is determined by the relationship: A = abc, with a = absorptivity, b = path length through the medium, and c = concentration of the absorbing species.
Stokes law
An equation relating the terminal settling velocity of a smooth, rigid sphere in a viscous fluid of known density and viscosity to the diameter of the sphere when subjected to a known force field.
Darcy's Law An equation for the computation of the quantity of water flowing through porous media. Darcy's Law assumes that the flow is laminar and that inertia can be neglected.
Darcy's Law: Groundwater movement equation developed by Henry Darcy in the mid-1800's.
Depletion: The loss of water from surface water reservoirs or groundwater aquifers at a rate greater than that of recharge.
Henry's law constant
At constant temperature and pressure, the ratio of the partial pressure of a gas above a liquid to its solubility in the liquid and therefore a measure of its partition between the gas phase and the solute phase.
Henry's Law Constant (H)
Provides a measure of the extent of chemical partitioning between air and water at equilibrium. The higher the constant, the more likely a chemical is to volatilize than to remain in water.
Heptachlor ...
Law of Mass Action
The value of the equilibrium constant expression is a constant for a particular reaction at a given temperature, and that this value is independent of the equilibrium concentrations of the chemicals substituted into the equation.
A law that spells out procedures and requirements related to the promulgation of regulations.
Administrative Record ...
A law, a statute, a decree enacted by a municipal body, such as a city council or county commission.
The law that outlines the US Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) responsibilities for maintaining and improving air quality and the ozone layer above US territory.
the law which manages the movement and storage of rubbish from industry (not households). This means that everyone who moves rubbish around and stores it has to follow a set of rules. If they don't they could be punished.
EC Directive ...
Darcy's Law: An empirically derived equation for the flow of fluids through porous media.
Horton's Law of Stream NumbersWithin a drainage basin, the largest stream has a rank order of one. Tributaries to rand order 1 streams have a rank order of 2 and so on.
A federal law of 1977 enforced by U.S. EPA. A key provision is that “any person responsible for the discharge of a pollutant or pollutants into any waters of the United States from any point source must apply for and obtain a permit.
Gresham's Law
The tendency for a coin of lower intrinsic value to circulate more freely than a coin having the same face value, but of higher intrinsic value. The coin of higher intrinsic value is likely to be hoarded.
Henry's Law
A way of calculating the solubility of a gas in a liquid, based on temperature and partial pressure, by means of constants.
Holding Pond ...
F feed-in law
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A legal obligation on utilities to purchase electricity from renewable sources.
Stoke's Law: A method to calculate the rate of fall of particles through a fluid, based on density, viscosity and particle size.
FLOW CONTROL LAW Local ordinance controlling, or giving a municipal official authority to control, the collection and/or disposal of municipal solid waste produced in a specific geographical area.
flow law In glaciology, a constitutive relation for the analysis of three-dimensional deformation states of ice subjected to stress. fog Liquid particles less than 40 microns in diameter that are formed by condensation of vapor in air.
Bottle Bill: law requiring deposits on beverage containers (see Container Deposit Legislation).
BTX: a test for benzene, toluene, and xylene, three organic compounds characteristically present in gasoline.
Clean Air Act - Law originally passed in 1970 (amended in 1990) to help clean up air pollution. It has resulted in the implementation of tougher policies designed to reduce emissions of chemicals from businesses and automobiles into the air.
This law gave EPA strong powers to encourage private parties (PRPs) to clean up sites. Concentration Amount of a material per unit volume. Conservation Preserving and renewing, when possible, human and natural resources.
See "New York State Department of Law" American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH) ACGIH is a professional society of government workers and educators who work to promote occupational safety and health.
The responsibility for ensuring that a law is implemented, and the authority to enforce a law and related regulations. A primacy agency has the primary responsibility for administrating and enforcing regulations.
primary element.
CELRF- Canadian Environmental Law Research Foundation
CEM- Continuous Emission Monitoring
CEMS- Continuous Emission Monitoring System
CEPA- Canadian Environmental Protection Act
CEPP- Chemical Emergency Preparedness Plan ...
Inverse cube law A law which states that the intensity of an effect at a point B due to a source at A varies inversely as the cube of their distance apart.
Enforcement methods include citations of polluters for violations of the law (citations are much like traffic tickets), fines and even jail terms.
Fish catches are limited by law as overfishing could deplete many different fish species. Many people in South Africa depend on marine resources for basic subsistence.
CERCLA, also known as Superfund, is the federal law that concerns the removal or cleanup of hazardous substances in the environment and at hazardous waste sites.
California Clean Air Act (CCAA): A California law passed in 1988 which provides the basis for air quality planning and regulation independent of federal regulations.
The OSHA law requires the new agency to promulgate standards such that "no employee will suffer material impairment of health or functional capacity even if ... [exposed] ... for the period of his working life.
ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT: The federal law that sets forth how the United States will protect and recover animal and plant species whose populations are in dangerous decline or close to extinction.
Conservation of mass, law of This states that mass is conserved in chemical reaction: the mass of the reactions is equal to the mass of the products. Nuclear reactions may appear to, but do not, break this law (see below).
The Fishery Conservation and Management Act of 1976 is the Federal law that created the regional fishery management councils and is the Federal government's basis for fisheries management in the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ).
Administrative Process Act of Virginia: A law that defines procedures and requirements related to the adoption, amendment and repeal of regulations, ...
The amount of pesticide residue allowed by law to remain in or on a harvested crop. EPA sets these levels well below the point where the compounds might be harmful to consumers.
Source: Terms of the Environment
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Mandatory Recycling: Programs which by law require consumers to separate trash so that some or all recyclable materials are recovered for recycling rather than going to landfills.
So because the Earth's surface is much cooler than the Sun (287 K vs 5780 K), Wien's displacement law dictates that Earth must radiate its thermal energy at much longer wavelengths than the Sun.
ELIU: Environmental Law and Institutions Unit
FAO: (UN) Food and Agriculture Organization
GATT: General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ...
Air Quality Standards
The level of selected pollutants set by law that may not be exceeded in outside air. Used to determine the amount of pollutants that may be emitted by industry. ...
Pesticide Tolerance: The amount of pesticide residue allowed by law to remain in or on a harvested crop. EPA sets these levels well below the point where the compounds might be harmful to consumers.
Administrative Procedures Act: A law that spells out procedures and requirements related to the promulgation of regulations.
Duty of Care: the duties of waste producers to ensure that their wastes are stored and disposed of in an appropriate manner. This Duty was embodied in law in the UK (for producers of "controlled" waste - a category covering most non-domestic and ...
Hawke Review = review of Australia's main environmental law: EPBC Act tabled in Parliament 21 December 2009
hecto- (h) = one hundred; 102
HFC = hydrofluorocarbon ...
This type of limiting situation is referred to as Liebig's Law of the Minimum. Liebig concluded that plants will growth as rapidly as possible until some factor limits their growth.
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