Science Assessment 4 - Analyze an environmental issue impacting your state

Science Assessment 4

Prepare a 5-to-10 minute video or podcast analyzing an environmental issue impacting your state and/or local community, an environmental law addressing the issue, and how you would use grant money to improve the issue. A written transcript can be submitted if you choose not to record a video or podcast.

· Step 1: Analyze an environmental issue impacting your state and/or local community.

· How does this environmental issue impact human health and/or the environment?

· Step 2: Explain how the environmental law regulates your environmental issue.

· Which law did you choose? State the name of the law and the date the law was passed (include any amendments made to the law).

· What are the major provisions of the law that you chose?

· How does the environmental law regulate your environmental issue?

· Step 3: Analyze the economic impact of your environmental law.

· What are the costs of your environmental law?

· What are the annual benefits of your environmental law?

· Step 4: Describe how the environmental law has improved the issue.

· How has the environmental law reduced emissions, waste, etc.?

· How has the environmental law improved quality of life and/or the environment?

· Step 5: Explain how you will use your grant to improve the environmental issue?

· How will you use your grant money to improve the environmental issue?