Natural environment

Natural environment

Related to any physical feature of the earth's natural environment.

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environmental lien

Natural environment; Water

A charge, security, or encumbrance on a property's title to secure payment of cost or debt arising from response actions, cleanup, or other remediation of hazardous substances or ...

environmental medium

Natural environment; Water

A major environmental category that surrounds or contacts humans, animals, plants, and other organisms (e.g. surface water, ground water, soil or air) and through which chemicals ...

environmental response team

Natural environment; Water

EPA experts located in Edison, N.J., and Cincinnati, OH, who can provide around-the-clock technical assistance to EPA regional offices and states during all types of hazardous ...

environmental site assessment

Natural environment; Water

The process of determining whether contamination is present on a parcel of real property.

environmental sustainability

Natural environment; Water

Long-term maintenance of ecosystem components and functions for future generations.

equilibrium

Natural environment; Water

In relation to radiation, the state at which the radioactivity of consecutive elements within a radioactive series is neither increasing nor decreasing.

equivalent method

Natural environment; Water

Any method of sampling and analyzing for air pollution which has been demonstrated to the EPA Administrator's satisfaction to be, under specific conditions, an acceptable ...