Environmental Impact Of The California Of Marine Animals...

On January 28, 1969 there was a well blow-out which occurred during drilling in the Santa Barbara Channel in Sothern California, an estimated 80,000 to 100,000 barrels of crude Oil was spilled into the channel and its surrounding, this incident caused significant impact of the ecological composition of the system, thousands of marine animals were killed and biodiversity was distorted. The Santa Barbara oil spill and the already growing environmental interests in the 1960s led to the enactment of the National Environmental Policy Act on January 1, 1970, its purpose was to promote the enhancement of the environment, and it required executive federal agencies to prepare environmental impact statements (EISs) and environmental assessment (EAs)†¦show more content†¦These actions are defined at 40 CFR 1508.18. The environmental review under NEPA can involve three different levels of analysis: 1. Categorical Exclusion determination (CATEX) 2. Environmental Assessment/Finding of No Significant Impact (EA/FONSI) 3. Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) (United States Environmental Protection Agency, 2017) â€Å"Since the passage of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA), federal agencies have been required to consider the potential environmental consequences of their actions, and to bring the public and other stakeholders into their decision making process. NEPA has been critical to meeting the environmental goals this Nation has set for itself† (Larson, Hess, D Avanzo, Stanley, Sumpter, 2015). One of the case studies highlighted by U.S. Department of Transportation s Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) is the reconstruction of Interstate 29 Fargo, North Dakota. The Interstate 29, spreads from Kansas City, Missouri to the border between US and Canada in the state of North Dakota, it is a corridor for local and International trade and transportation while there were some underdeveloped agricultural lands adjacent to it. The project consisted of the improvement of the roadway capacity and level of service, improvement of access to and from the interstate, improvement of roadway access / continuity, replacement of deficient pavements, across the interstate as it was considered in a poor state.Show MoreRelatedEssay about Why We Should Stop Extinction2515 Words   |  11 PagesThe extinction of indigenous animals has been an ongoing problem that has not received the attention it deserves. Biologists have studied the pattern of mass extinction with growing concern. The world’s species are declining at a rate 10,000 times faster than normal according to a census of the world’s species (Dugan). 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