Environmental laws, statutes, and implementing regulations have two specific pur- poses: forecasting future conditions and determining cause and effect. The analytical models applied to existing environmental data sets do not provide results that explic- itly address the two purposes. They leave decision-makers confused, uncertain how to justify a decision, and suffering paralysis by analysis as they ask for more results that prove to be ineffective.
This document explains how environmental data are analyzed (wrongly and correctly), why the analytical approaches differ, and why knowing the details makes you more effective in managing environmental data for your operations. legal case, or litigation.