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The Effects Of Lead Poison On Children
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Environmental Protection Agency Paper Industry
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1,441 wordsAir pollution is a very big problem in the United States. A large part of air pollution comes from cars. The Environmental Protection Agency says, "The most polluting activity an average person does everyday is drive their car" (1 fact sheet OMS- 5). Most people probably aren't aware that they are polluting the environment. Maybe if everyone knew how serious this pollution problem is, they would find ways to reduce the pollution. Most pollution that is released by cars comes from the exhaust, ma...
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3,001 wordsAtmospheric Pollution Abstract Air or atmospheric pollution is just one of the many forms of environmental contamination which is brought about by mostly irresponsible human activities that is damaging and spoiling our planet. One particular environmental problem which arises from within atmospheric pollution is the emergence of the phenomenon referred to as urban heat island. The effects of this particular urban air pollution is widespread and impact covers air quality, the health of the popula...
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581 wordsMunicipal Solid Waste Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) is becoming an increased concern for the United States. U. S. Environmental Protection Agency (MSW Website n. p. ) defines municipal solid waste as trash or garbage consisting of everyday items such as product packaging, grass clippings, furniture, clothing, bottles, food scraps, newspapers, appliances, paint, and batteries. In 2003 Americans produced more than 236 million tons of municipal waste, which is approximately 4. 5 pounds of waste per p...
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Environmental Protection Agency Source Of Power
2,755 words... also positive effects to oil spills. When there is a spill workers are needed to help with the clean up effort. This in turn provides jobs for people. Due to the amount of people needed to clean up the spill, the surrounding community can bring in money from local hotels and restaurants. The workers that come into the area with utilize these facilities. A negative effect of an oil spill is the watermen's loss of employment. With an oil spill closing down the waterways and boat ramps they los...
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Environmental Protection Agency Drinking Water
525 wordsChristine Whitman: Environmental Protection Agency Essay, Research Christine Whitman: Environmental Protection Agency WASHINGTON (AP) The Bush administration, under fire for scrapping Clinton standards for arsenic in drinking water, announced plans Wednesday to tighten the standards within nine months. Christine Whitman, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, said she was asking the National Academy of Sciences to examine the impact of a range of possible reductions. Bush had draw...
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Clean Air Act Environmental Protection Agency
1,282 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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Environmental Protection Agency Tobacco Smoke
268 wordsEnvironmental Tobacco Smoke Mark Ritter Matt Porter Research Paper November 25, 1996 Tobacco smoking has long been recognized as a major cause of death and disease, responsible for an estimated 434, 000 deaths per year in the United States. After the Environmental Protection Agency and the Surgeon General stated that cigarettes cause lung cancer there was a tremendous movement to make cigarettes illegal. Now the debate is on environmental tobacco smoke also known as secondhand smoke, passive smo...
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Environmental Protection Agency Ground Level Ozone
1,487 wordsDeath of a Planet Air pollution is a very big problem in the United States. A large part of air pollution comes from cars. The Environmental Protection Agency says, The most polluting activity an average person does everyday is drive their car (1 factsheet OMS- 5). Most people probably arent aware that they are polluting the environment. Maybe if everyone knew how serious this pollution problem is, they would find ways to reduce the pollution. Most pollution that is released by cars comes from t...
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2,062 wordsEng 102 December 4, 2000 Pollution Since the beginning of the 20 th century, environmentalists have been warning the world about polluting the earth and its consequences. While many countries have seriously attempted to reduce their pollution emission, others instead seem to be more concern about economic growth and production output. Therefore, pollution has been increasing since then. However, pollution must be reduced, otherwise life on earth will soon extinguish. Air pollution is one of the ...
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Environmental Protection Agency Greenhouse Gases
2,129 wordsGlobal Warming: What Does Our Future Hold? During the course of the twentieth century, many environmental scientists have become increasingly confident that the average global temperature has elevated. Although global warming is still a highly controversial theory, the facts have compelled scientists, politicians and the environmentally conscious to take a closer look at the statistics. Periodic global warming conferences take place around the world to discuss various environmental topics. Globa...
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723 wordsNats Herbicide-Tolerant Crops Patrick Donate Nats 104 3 - 9 - 00 Herbicide-Tolerant Crops Crop management is a vigorous activity that changes as technologies are developed. Now that were in the new millennium, we are finding new and enhanced ways to improve things that effect us in our everyday lives like, industrial pollution, car pollution, waste management, and also the advancement in herbicide-tolerant crops. Much advancement have been taking place to make our crops better and safer to eat w...
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2,371 wordsThe Effects of Lead Poison on Children Throughout the world today one out of every six children under the age of six are suffering from health disorders due to a poisonous metal known as lead (Kiwanis, 1996). Lead is a natural occurring bluish-grey metal found in the earths crust. It has no taste or smell. Lead can easily be found in all parts of our environment today. Most of it comes from mining, manufacturing, and last but not least the burning of fossil fuels (Xintaras, 1993). In the United ...
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Clean Air Act Environmental Protection Agency
2,376 wordsMethyl Bromide Ban Under the recently passed U. S. Clean Air Act, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has prohibited the U. S. production and importation of methyl bromide starting January 1, 2001. Methyl bromide is an odorless, colorless gas essential to the farming, storage, transportation, trading and processing of more than 100 American crops including fruits, grains, vegetables, cut flowers, wood products and cotton. Methyl bromide plays a key role is ensuring the safety and adequacy ...
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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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3,141 words&# 65279; The Environmental Concerns of the Livestock Industry The United States leads the way in a global trend toward increased meat consumption. The average American consumes almost twice his or her own body weight in meat every year. World meat production has surged nearly fivefold in the last fifty years, from 44 millions tons in 1950, to 211 million tons in 1997. This growing manufacturing of meat for food is creating new pressures on land and water resources, contributing to water polluti...
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