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Prince William Sound Christian Science Monitor
1,344 wordsThe Exxon Valdez oil spill in the Prince William Sound of Alaska proved to be a disaster on many levels. The coastline, wildlife, and people of the all area were all devastated by the spill. Ten years later, the area is showing remarkable progress. Because of the cleanup efforts and new regulations, the Sound is getting ever closer to recovery. A few minutes after midnight on March 24, 1989, the T/V Exxon Valdez ran aground on Bligh Reef in Prince William Sound. A few minutes later the coast gua...
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Binge Drinkers Million Gallons
913 wordsI. Introduction: Do you remember the Notre Dame football game this past season? ? Well I do sorta. I was at the game and allI even participated in the vandalism that went on before the game even ended. I know my intentions for that game were to 1) watch Pitt lose again, 2) get pretty drunk because I had a good feeling that Pitt would screw it up again, and 3) have fun at our party that night. Well here is just a little bit of what happened to me that day. I started to drink before the game, and ...
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Water Conservation Million Gallons
1,861 wordsThis chapter presents a sampling of programs throughout the Nation that use one or more water conservation and use efficiency practices. It is important to note that the information in the table and in the examples is provided to illustrate the water savings that can be achieved by using a conservation and use efficiency practice or combining a mixture of practices. Many other practices and programs could be cited as well (such as the State of Massachusetts Water Resources Authority, and the Cit...
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Agent Orange And Vietnam
1,424 wordsWe must do everything in our power to make the world recognize that our veterans are still paying a high price for fighting the war in Vietnam. Agent Orange is slowly taking the lives of these brave veterans. The government has recognized some diseases but the rules to compensation can be complex. It was in the 1960 's that we were in the process of trying to destroy vegetation and brush in Vietnam, in doing so we proceeded to contaminate one of the largest parts of the environment, Humankind. W...
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Gallons Of Water Source Of Water
1,681 wordsEngineering can be defined as the putting together of things. This definition has summarized a profession that dates back to ancient times. Many things have been accomplished by early engineers. The great pyramids in Egypt for example are an engineering marvel still today. The massive structures look simple but they took great skill to construct. The complex ventilation systems and rooms took brilliant engineers to design. The people in that era had very few tools to help them build the pyramids...
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Million Gallons Air Pollution
649 wordsEthanol plant strategic plan (Pine Lake Corn Processors, LLC) Pine Lake Corn Processors, LLC was organized with the purpose to build, own and operate an ethanol production facility and located in Steamboat Rock, Iowa. Since that time Pine Lake Corn Processors has become number one among 21 farmer-owned ethanol facilities in Iowa. It produces 15 million gallons of ethanol a year. In 2002, A unit of Williams (NYSE: WMB) signed an agreement with Pine Lake Corn Processors and owned its all fuel-grad...
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Earths Surface Earths Crust
4,346 wordsEARTH The Earth, mans home, is a planet. The Earth has special characteristics, and these are important to man. It is the only planet known to have the right temperature and the right atmosphere to support the kind of environments and natural resources in which plants and man and other animals can survive. This fact is so important to man that he has developed a special science called ecology, which deals with the dependence of all living things will continue to survive on the planet. Many milli...
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Water Conservation Wastewater Treatment
3,851 wordsThis chapter presents a sampling of programs throughout the Nation that use one or more water conservation and use efficiency practices. It is important to note that the information in the table and in the examples is provided to illustrate the water savings that can be achieved by using a conservation and use efficiency practice or combining a mixture of practices. Many other practices and programs could be cited as well (such as the State of Massachusetts Water Resources Authority, and the Cit...
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Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
840 wordsThe Exxon Valdez oil tanker left the Trans Alaska Pipeline terminal at 9: 12 PM March 23, 1989. The Exxon Valdez was the companies second newest tanker, it was 987 feet long and was carrying 53, 094, 510 gallons of crude oil. Its destination, Long Beach California. William Murphy, an expert ships pilot had been hired to steer the ship through the Valdez Narrows. Joe Hazelwood, the captain, and helmsman Harry Clear were also in the wheel house. Clear was steering. After successfully guiding the s...
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18 Th Amendment Attempt To Control
535 wordsThroughout history, there have been several methods to attempt to control substance abuse. Alcohol is one drug that the government has attempted to regulate throughout history. In some ways it has decreased its use and in others, increased it. Alcohol use has been dated back to ancient times. At least 6, 000 years ago. The oldest reference alcohol was found on stone tablets in Iraq and Iran. The oldest attempt to control alcohol dates back to the Babylonian code of Hammurabi in 1770 BC. It set s...
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Heavy Drinking Million Gallons
1,002 words? Too Teen Alcoholism Teen Alcoholism? Too many college students have just one objective, ? to get drunk! ? Campus alcoholism is an epidemic sweeping through colleges and universities at a rapidly growing speed. Even though it is illegal for a minor under the age of 21 to purchase or consume alcohol, that law has never stopped those who wished to drink. What used to be a social activity has radically changed to an unsafe pass time that eating away at student? s money, school and health. A Harvar...
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Fresh Kills Landfill Municipal Solid Waste
3,346 words+ Introduction Did you know? Americans use enough cardboard each year to make a bale as big as a football field and as high as the World Trade Center Towers. We even throw away so much aluminum every three months that we can rebuild our entire commercial air fleet. Each person, yes, included you, in America creates about 4. 4 pounds of trash every single day. Did you also know? That it takes 100 years for tin to break down, 500 years for aluminum, and glass takes one million years. One reason ga...
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Sea Level Canal Millions Of Dollars
1,590 wordsPart of Teddy Roosevelt s dream of making America a global power was realized through the construction of the Panama Canal. The French began construction in 1880 but nine years and about 20, 000 lives later they realized their plans were flawed and abandoned the project. Panama declared independence and the United States decided to continue the work on the canal that the French could not. First the U. S. controlled the diseases that claimed so many workers lives. Then they developed an innovativ...
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