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?