ENVIRONMENTAL LAW INSTITUTE. 2000 L ST NW, STE 620 • WASHINGTON DC 20036 • TEL: 202.939.3243 • WWW.ELI.ORG. MAY 2012. Adapted from ELIZABETH D. MULLIN, THE ART OF COMMENTING: HOW TO INFLUENCE. ENVIRONMENTAL DECISIONMAKING WITH EFFECTIVE COMMENTS (Envtl L. Inst.

ENVIRONMENTAL LAW INSTITUTE. 2000 L ST NW, STE 620 • WASHINGTON DC 20036 • TEL: 202.939.3243 • WWW.ELI.ORG. MAY 2012. Adapted from ELIZABETH D. MULLIN, THE ART OF COMMENTING: HOW TO INFLUENCE. ENVIRONMENTAL DECISIONMAKING WITH EFFECTIVE COMMENTS (Envtl L. Inst.

environmental effects of federal decision-making to effectively participate in federal ..... procedures, or regulations, are published in the Federal Register, and a public comment period is required prior to CEQ .... (2000). 23 Scoping is a NEPA term of art that describes one major public involvement aspect of the NEPA EIS.

THE ART OF COMMENTING: How to Influence Environmental Decisionmaking. With Effective Comments by. Elizabeth D. Mullin. ENVIRONMENTAL LAW INSTITUTE. Washington, D.C. ...

Karl S. Coplan, Teaching Substantive Environmental Law and Practice Skills Through Interest Group Role-Playing, 18 Vt. J. Envtl. L. 194 (2016) .... M.E. Kraft, Influence of American NGOs on Environmental Decisions and Policies: Evolution ...... filing effective public comments on environmental decision-making, The. Art of ...

affect regulatory decisions, and the legal environment regulators face should not be difficult for anyone with an ... For a good general guide to writing comments on regulations that covers aspects other than economic analysis, see Elizabeth Mullin, The Art of Commenting. (Washington, DC: Environmental Law Institute, ...

MODULE 4: Understanding the policy, political and decision-making processes ... systems are not influenced by their environment and do not interact with it. By contrast ..... DECISION-MAKING. PROCESS: A set of steps that include identifying the problem, selecting an alternative and evaluating the decision's effectiveness.

Policy Act. Handbook. Washington State Department of Ecology. Publication # 98 -114. September 1998. Updated 2003. Shorelands and Environmental Assistance Program. Gordon White ... comment on one or more drafts of this publications. ... provide guidance on the State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA). We have ...

2 For instance, the UNECE Aarhus Convention on access to information, public participation in decision-making and access to justice in environmental matters the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), ..... For large- scale transboundary projects, the notification's timing is key to ensuring effective.

of the environmental decision-making process. ... Environmental Impact Assessment (draft for comments released November 2005) [hereinafter Draft .... People's Cong., Oct. 28, 2002, effective Sept. 1, 2003), art. 1, available at http:// www.sepa.gov.cn/ law/law/200210/t20021028_84000.htm (P.R.C.); 42 U.S.C. § 4331(a) ...

Readers' comments: Kazutaka Kogi, President, International Commission on Occupational Health: “The draft Framework is well framed and excellently prepared. ..... work environment;. • health, safety and well-being concerns in the psychosocial work environment including organization of work and workplace culture;.

PLEASE NOTE: This document is intended as an information source and cannot take the place of legal advice in a specific situation ... readership, which includes government authorities (who are responsible for reviewing and commenting on environmental ... ENVIRONMENTAL AUDITING AND DECISION-MAKING.

Stone, Kevin C., "Rhetoric, participation, and democracy: The positioning of public hearings under the National Environmental Policy. Act" ..... Comment on draft decisions is typified by public meetings, hearings, and the submission of written comment. These traditional practices of public participation are considered the bare.

Other topics in the series of overview information documents on the concepts of, and approaches to, integrated environmental ... PLEASE NOTE: This document is intended as an information source and cannot take the place of legal advice in a specific situation ... All enquiries and comments should be addressed to:.

Federal and state agencies, as well as environmental organizations, promote public participation in decisions that ... Writing and submitting comments are a powerful way to influence agency decision-making. .... In order to achieve an effective hearing, it is important for residents and PA DEP staff to be on the same page.

Jan 1, 2001 ... This Response or Comment is brought to you for free and open access by the Yale Law School Faculty Scholarship at Yale Law School Legal .... in Protective Environmental Decisionmaking, 15 HARV. ENVTL. L. REV. .... 30 See generally Richard B. Stewart, Environmental Quality as a National Good in.

as is the full legal code for the CC BY-ND 3.0 AU licence (http://creativecommons. org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/au/legalcode). The document must be ... a school age care environment designed to foster children's ..... We regularly assess how effective our practices and procedures are by reflecting on current experiences, feedback  ...

DECISION-MAKING. First meeting. Geneva, 25-26 October 2010. Item 2(b) of the provisional agenda. Challenges in implementing public participation in decision- making. Overview ... granted and several legal obligations related to environmental protection are applicable, .... were published too late for effective commenting.

government a course of "preventive and anticipatory"' decision making ... National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (hereinafter NEPA or the Act). 2 The Act officially declares environmental quality to be a national priority and lists as goals .... Comment, The Council on Environmental Quality's Guidelines and Their Influence.

Feb 11, 1994 ... facilitate better environmental decision making. NEPA requires Federal agencies to review and comment on Federal agency environmental plans/documents when the agency has jurisdiction by law or special expertise with respect to any environmental impacts involved. (42 U.S.C. 4321-. 4327) (40 CFR ...