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Clean Air Act Environmental Protection Agency
1,285 words1990, the federal Clean Air Act was passed to improve air quality in the United States. President Bush's proposed amendments to the Clean Air Act initially would have led to the introduction of alternative, non-petroleum fuels. The petroleum and oxygenate industries responded by offering a reformulated gasoline program as a substitute for most of the alternate fuel proposals. As a result, the amendments to the federal Clean Air Act adopted in 1990 required steps to achieve lower vehicle emission...
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1,255 words... rational policy. President Bush's loopholes in the 1990 Clean Air Act were by no means the beginning of weakened laws to help further business. After President Carter introduced tougher toxic dumping regulations for corporations, there was a huge increase in illegal midnight dumpings. Soon, exporting toxic waste to the Third World became a sudden growth industry. While it is true that the Carter administration vetoed these kinds of exports for toxic garbage, the ban was soon withdrawn by the...
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Acid Mine Drainage Causes Effects And Solutions
1,484 wordsFor hundreds, even thousands of years, human beings have mined for metals and stones, and with the advent of greater technology as well as greater needs, the demands for these resources continue to grow. While these resources benefit our lives in many ways, the effects of mining can be detrimental, and one such effect is the topic of this essay, acid mine drainage (A. M. D. ). The causes of A. M. D. will be discussed, along with some of the physical and biological problems associated with it. So...
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1,937 wordsIn the past century, one of the greatest threats to North Americas aquatic ecosystem has been the widespread acidification of hundreds of thousands of waterways. Acid rain has effected plant and animal life within aquatic ecosystems, as well as microbiology activity by affecting the rates of decomposition and the accumulation of organic matter. What causes this poisonous rain, and what can be done to improve North Americas water quality and prevent future catastrophes? To answer these questions,...
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Global Climate Change Effects Of Global Warming
1,866 wordsThe impact of people on their environment can be devastating. This is where the respective role of governments can make decisions that shape environmental policy and responsibilities. These governments can be broken up into four different levels: local, state, federal and international. Air quality and biodiversity are two current issues that can be related to the role of governments. Global warming is also another implication that has a devastating effect on the environment. Current examples in...
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596 wordsEnvironmental Protection Agency The Environmental Protection Agency, (EPA) in Edison, New Jersey is very successful in detecting and separating elements found in water. With it s expensive machinery and skilled workers the EPA proved to be successful in making New Jersey s drinking water safe. Throughout the tour, I picked up on some interesting and useful facts. I found myself very interested in exactly how many elements are found in water, how one goes about figuring out the name of the elemen...
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United States Canada Effects On The Environment
1,529 wordsGlobalization: A Policy of Apocryphal Benefits The idea of globalization is a greatly misconstrued, detrimental policy to those countries and people outside of the North American sphere of life. Corporations are globalizing not only to reduce production costs, but also to expand markets, evade taxes, acquire knowledge and resources, and protect themselves against currency fluctuations and other risks (Brecher and Costello 18). Three hundred companies own an estimated one-quarter of the productio...
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Environmental Protection Agency United States Department
3,619 wordsOUR FOOD SYSTEM After a long hard day of work you sit down in your comfortable recliner and open up your favorite snack. But when you reach into grab a piece, you pull out a dead bug. Suddenly many thoughts come into your mind, you wonder how did the bug get there and was it dead or alive. Is it harmful or carry a disease. You ask yourself did the bug come from the United States or another country and where was your snack made? As all these questions come into your head, you wonder who can give ...
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Metal Ions Drinking Water
2,316 wordsWater is a tasteless odorless vital element in which 90 percent of all organisms depend on to survive. It is one of the best-known ionizing agents and, is frequently called the universal solvent. Water combines with certain salts to form hydrates. It reacts with metal oxides to form acids and it also acts as a catalyst in many important chemical reactions. Not only is it essential to our health, but it is also crucial in the household and the industrial world. Every day we use water for cooking,...
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Wildlife Habitat Environmental Protection
1,341 wordsTHE GOVERNMENT VS THE ENVIRONMENT When the subject is the environment, the general public perception is that a resource of such importance can only be adequately safeguarded by the benevolent, all-encompassing hands of the government. Whether this comes in the guise of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Forest Service, the Park Service, the Bureau of Land Management or any of their variations on the federal, state, and local levels, many citizens fear that leaving environmental (that is, p...
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1,956 wordsMarine Pollution: Affecting Tomorrows World Marine pollution, can be defined as: The introduction of man, directly or indirectly, of substance or energy into the marine environment, resulting in such effects as harm to living resources, hazards to human health, hindrance to marine activities including fishing, impairment of quality for use of sea water and reduction of amenities (Johnston, 1976). The ocean has been calculated to be about 2. 5 billion years old, nearly half the age of the earth. ...
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Environmental Protection Agency Clean Air Act
2,294 wordsThe poisoning of the Earth? s ozone layer is increasingly attracting worldwide concern for the global environment and the health effects of life on the Planet Earth. There is not just one particular cause for the ozone? s depletion; the accumulation of different pollutants into our ozone layer has all added up and equaled a worldwide problem. There is not just one effect from the poisoning of the ozone, but instead multiple ramifications from diseases to death. The damage to the ozone is increas...
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Nitrogen Oxides Nitrogen Dioxide
1,745 wordsGifted Photochemical Smog Photochemical Smog Gifted Chemistry IB Alternative Assessment 1997 March 19 Historically, the term smog referred to a mixture of smoke and fog, hence the name smog. The industrial revolution has been the central cause for the increase in pollutants in the atmosphere over the last three centuries. Before 1950, the majority of this pollution was created from the burning of coal for energy generation, space heating, cooking, and transportation. Under the right conditions, ...
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Protection Agencies Port Arthur
1,000 wordsSlaughter 1 English 1301 - 020 Mr. Sanborn 19 November 98 Polluting America Do you ever wonder what you are inhaling into your lungs? Are you concerned? When you drive past large chemical plants, do you see the large amounts of smoke continuously being released into the air? Did you realize that the pollution released is probably more than legally released? Many people do not consider the danger we are in. We are breathing chemicals into our lungs that harm our bodies and organs. Many industrial...
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U S Army Environmental Protection Agency
2,942 wordsGreat Lakes Pollution: Through combined sewer overflow, agricultural and stormwater runoff, and various other paths, possible toxic contaminants find their way into coastal waters around the world. These toxins sink to the bottom of lakes, rivers, and oceans and accumulate in sedimentary deposits. Usually the concentration of toxins in the sediment is far greater than it is in the waters above. The dangerous aspect of this pollution is that changing weather patterns, high winds, and strong curre...
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Indigenous Tribes Indigenous Peoples
1,625 wordsRainforest Deforestation: Do We Care Enough? The villagers walk the charred ruins of their village, looking for any personal possessions that can be salvaged after the fire. Looking out from the remains, they see the trucks already winding their way up the newly made dirt road. Soon, the landscape around their village will be irrevocably changed as well. The loggers will strip the forest of all trees, and then move on. They leave the landscape barren, and allow erosion to destroy it utterly. Sad...
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2,231 wordsAcid Rain is a serious problem with disastrous effects. Every day this problem increases. Many believe that this issue is too small to deal with, but if the acid rain problem is not met with head on, the effects on people, plants, animals, and the economy will only worsen. In the following paragraphs you will learn what acid rain is, the effects it has on human life, animals, the economy, the economic costs, and what is being done to help to stop this problem. This topic is very important becaus...
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Nitrogen Oxides Nitrogen Dioxide
1,758 wordsGifted Chemistry IB Alternative Untitled Gifted Chemistry IB Alternative Assessment Photochemical Smog Historically, the term smog referred to a mixture of smoke and fog, hence the name smog. The industrial revolution has been the central cause for the increase in pollutants in the atmosphere over the last three centuries. Before 1950, the majority of this pollution was created from the burning of coal for energy generation, space heating, cooking, and transportation. Under the right conditions,...
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North Atlantic Treaty Central And Eastern Europe
1,712 wordsThe North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, or NATO was set up in 1946 and, until 1990, primarily concentrated on European defence against the Warsaw Pact countries. However, since the collapse of the Soviet Union, NATO has lost its principle protagonist. So it must be asked, can there really be, as the US Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright said, a new NATO for a new century. Indeed, she said, at the Brookings Institution, that since the end of the Cold War Alliance leaders [have been] confronte...
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