Environmental Impacts are changes in the natural or built environment, resulting directly from an activity that can have adverse effects on the air, land, water, fish, wildlife or the inhabitants of the ecosystem. Discus

The environmental impacts of fossil fuels often result in real costs to society, in terms of human health (i.e., loss of work days, health care costs), infrastructure decay (i.e., from acid rain), declines in forests and fisheries, and perhaps ultimately, the costs associated with climate change.