Environmental Effect

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-009742",
  "term": "Environmental Effect",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "1. Action of a stressor on the environment\n\n2. Changes to the human environment from the proposed action or alternatives that are reasonably foreseeable. Effects include ecological (such as the effects on natural resources and on the components, structures, and functioning of affected ecosystems), aesthetic, historic, cultural, economic, social, or health, whether direct, indirect, or cumulative. Effects may also include those resulting from actions which may have both beneficial and detrimental effects, even if on balance the agency believes that the effects will be beneficial.",
  "references": [
    "EPA EV-Outcomes-Environmental Impacts",
    "40 CFR 1508.1 (2022)"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/environmental-effect/"
}