Commercial fertilizer; fee; amount; collection; refund. (1) Through December 31, 1996, there shall be imposed a fee of four dollars per ton upon the gross...
With passage of the 1987 Groundwater Protection Act (House File 631), Iowa articulated a comprehensive policy regarding groundwater contamination. The Act established a scheme to...
Halifax Regional Municipal Council (HRM) has passed a by-law to regulate certain aspects of pesticide use. The by-law is authorised by the province of Nova...
Santa Monica was one of the first cities to require the reduction of toxicity of janitorial products. In 1993 the city implemented a Toxics Use...
After proven to be harmful to the ozone layer, some governments moved to ban chlorofluorocarbons.… Read More
The US government is the world’s biggest consumer and together federal, state and local governments spend hundreds of billions of dollars annually on goods and...
All Terrain Vehicles (ATVs), commonly referred to as four-wheelers, and other Off Road Vehicles (ORVs or Off-Highway Vehicles – OHVs) are facing increasing regulatory pressures....
A Corporate Good Character Law allows the state to take certain factors into account when deciding whether or not to allow a company a permit....
Title 3 of 1986 Superfund Amendments Reauthorization Act (SARA)established the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA). EPCRA contains three major provisions: planning for chemical...
Toll roads are an example of road pricing. Road usage is charged directly and may include congestion charges – where fees are higher during periods...
Noise pollution is an intrusion into the commons. When boom boxes, leaf blowers, and jet ski’s emit their sounds, they degrade the quality of the...
Each night almost of a third of the light used out-of-doors escapes into the night sky where, instead of providing useful illumination, it causes glare,...
Largely a post Word-War II phenomenon, the word sprawl describes what its name evokes: formless, spreading, inefficent consumption of land. A “sprawling” landscape generally has...
This 1989 law prohibited the use of once-through water systems in the Twin Cities after 2010, and immediately raised the price of using once-through water...