Environmental Quality is a set of properties and characteristics of the environment, either generalized or local, as they impinge on human beings and other organisms.
All states in the U.S. have some form of a department or commission that is responsible for a variety of activities such as monitoring quality, responding to citizen complaints, and enforcing environmental regulations.
[4] Other federal agencies with significant oversight roles include the Council on Environmental Quality, Department of the Interior and the Army Corps of Engineers.
Predecessor bodies were merged in 2001 to create this department with a broader remit to link rural activities to the natural environment.
DEFRA also has a remit to oversee impacts of activities within the built environment and the United Kingdom Climate Change Programme.