LEGAL WORD
Environmental impact assessment
Legal term · Environmental law
Environmental impact assessment
- Type: Legal term
- Area of law: Environmental law
1 What it means
A study of a project's likely effects on the environment before approval is given.
2 Use it in a sentence
The mine could not start without an environmental impact assessment.
3 Make it stick
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