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Carbon Dioxide Emissions Set An Example
1,843 words... in their distribution. There should be a mandated Fossil Fuel Efficiency Standard that would be applied to every generator of electricity in the country. It would set a "nationwide allowance for the average fossil fuel used per unit of energy produced and would also include a schedule of cutting fossil allowances in half over the next twenty years" (213). Afterwards, each year the allowance for fossil fuel to be used would be less from the year before. The companies would be forced to increa...
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Native Americans Environmental Racism
1,110 wordsNative Americans: 500 years of Racism and Oppression "In fourteen-hundred and ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue. " This little saying is something that I'm sure we all learned as children, to help us remember the year that Columbus discovered America. However, Columbus did not discover America, it has been here as long as Spain, England, and the rest of the countries in the world at that time. Although not as nearly technologically advanced as the countries of Europe, the Native America...
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Clean Up The Oceans Defense Council Action
369 wordsMany years ago nobody would have thought that the ocean would ever need saving. The covers over 90 % of the earth's surface. People would wonder how something so colossal ever be effected by their actions. Unfortunately, the oceans do suffer from mankind's careers, selfish acts. There are numerous ways to begin to clean up the oceans. These solutions range from individual action to government action. The individual can begin to help stop the leaking and dumping of harmful pollutants into the oce...
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Greenhouse Gases Nitrous Oxide
1,153 wordsIndeed, in my opinion, technology does owe ecology an apology. This is because ecological imbalances were as a result of the Industrial revolution, which could be said to be the beginning of the non-ending technological advancement cycle. During Industrial revolution, we began altering or climate and environment through changing agricultural and industrial practices. Before the industrial revolution, human activity released very few gases into the atmosphere, but now through population growth fo...
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Enhanced Emissions Test Car And Truck Vehicles
733 wordsI Bet that most all of you like classic cars. I mean, what's not to like. If it's not the rumble of a big block underfoot, then it's the feel of the wind in your hair when you drive your restored 1971 Plymouth Cuda Convertible. It's manly, it's American, it's just plain cool to be seen in any of the muscle car era vehicles. Everyone has had an older car. If you " re not driving it because it's cool, then you " re driving it because it's the only thing you can afford. No matter why you " re drivi...
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Ozone Layer Ultraviolet Rays
1,294 wordsAtmospheric ozone layer depletion is a serious problem currently facing the world. The ozone layer protects humans, animals, and plants from harmful ultraviolet rays. Money and time are being spent on ozone repair, but the problem still exists. The ozone layer is a region of the stratosphere containing ozone, or O 3 gas. The ozone layer is essential to both plant and animal life on earth because it protects the surface from dangerous ultraviolet light. However, industrial and domestic chemicals ...
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Public Policy Problems In The Environment
832 wordsPublic policy is defined by Websters as the The basic policy or set of policies forming the foundation of public laws, especially such policy not yet formally enunciated. The United States Government has many policies in the area of the environment. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was created in 1970 to help identify environmental problems in our nation, and to set policy on how to deal with those problems. Yet, with so much money spent by the government to deal with problems with the ...
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20 Th Century Effects Of Global
1,147 wordsImagine that all the coastal areas in the world were completely submerged in water and the national parks and rangelands of the world were nothing but barren disasters. This scenario will become a reality if global warming continues to occur. Ecosystems will be severely damaged due to the change in weather it causes. Studies show that the change in weather can also spread contagious diseases that are carried by mosquitoes and other virus carrying animal that dwell in warm areas. The cause of thi...
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Acid Rain Sulfur Dioxide
566 words"Acid rain" is a broad term used to describe several ways that acids fall out of the atmosphere. A more precise term is acid deposition, which has two parts: wet and dry. Wet deposition refers to acidic rain, fog, and snow. As this acidic water flows over and through the ground, it affects a variety of plants and animals. The strength of the effects depend on many factors, including how acidic the water is, the chemistry and buffering capacity of the soils involved, and the types of fish, trees,...
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Risk Of Developing Lung Cancer
987 wordsRadiological Determinant of Water Asbestos is a general name applied to a cluster of silicate minerals consisting of thin, divisible fibers in a parallel arrangement. Asbestos was found in water and appears to be dangerous to health. Different criteria are used to recognize asbestos fibers, depending on the context. In general, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) regulate as fibers those particles of the regulated mineral classes longer than 5 m in length. Asbestos fibers do...
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Clean Air Act Nitrogen Oxide
721 wordsUrban Environmental Science A human being breathes 16 times a minute, 960 times an hour, almost 8. 5 million times a year. With each breath, he or she inhales hundreds of airborne substances. The nature of these substances is partially formed by the human activity. For those who live in cities, many of those substances are pollutants that increases the risk of respiratory problems and cancer. Smog reduces lung capacity and decreases the body's ability to fight infection. Soot causes bronchitis, ...
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Period Of Time Fossil Fuel
1,131 wordsChemicals In The Environment In todays society chemicals, whether you like it or not are a fact of life. Many people are afraid of chemicals and their effects on them and the environment. This is understandable because the truth of the matter is that chemicals can do some horrible things to humans, animals and the whole ecosystem. Some would say that chemicals should be done away with for these reasons. But this certainly is not true and most likely impossible. Chemicals can also have some very ...
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Amount Of Light Light Energy
1,103 wordsEffects Of Depth And Sediment Concentration On Effects Of Depth And Sediment Concentration On The Penetration Of Photosynthetically Effects of Depth and Sediment Concentration on the Penetration of Photosynthetically Active Radiation in Water Introduction The purpose of this study plan is to measure the effects of light on sedimentary particles in water. This study plan will include information pertaining to equipment, procedures, and analysis. This plan will also discuss problems that could ari...
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Clean Up The Oceans Save The Ocean Action
381 wordsSolutions Global Warming Ocean Solutions Solutions to Save the Ocean Many years ago nobody would have thought that the ocean would ever need saving. The covers over 90 % of the earths surface. People would wonder how something so colossal ever be effected by their actions. Unfortunately, the oceans do suffer from mankind's careers, selfish acts. There are numerous ways to begin to clean up the oceans. These solutions range from individual action to government action. The individual can begin to ...
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Racial Equality Indian Lands
588 wordsOne would think that today, with all the emphasis put on equality and the evils of prejudice, the differences in the treatment of Native Americans now and during the late 1890 s would be drastic. Our country has achieved her manifest destiny. A superpower with a standard policy on just about every issue, America seems strong but are all of our ideals so solid? Looking back to before the turn of the century, our nation was still in her infancy. Wild and erratic, there were not so many checkpoints...
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Coronary Heart Disease Risk Of Developing
430 wordsAn estimated 146, 000 Americans died of lung cancer in 1992, and 90 percent of these deaths were caused by cigarette smoking. Smoking is responsible for about 30 percent of all cancer deaths annually in the United States more than 155, 000 each year. If smoking-related cancers could be eliminated from our society, we would see a significant decline in the annual cancer death rate instead of small but steady increases. Since 1964, the year of the Surgeon Generals first report on the health risks ...
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Ozone Layer Ultraviolet Rays
1,260 wordsAtmospheric ozone layer depletion is a serious problem currently facing the world. The ozone layer protects humans, animals, and plants from harmful ultraviolet rays. Money and time are being spent on ozone repair, but the problem still exists. The ozone layer is a region of the stratosphere containing ozone, or O 3 gas. The ozone layer is essential to both plant and animal life on earth because it protects the surface from dangerous ultraviolet light. However, industrial and domestic chemicals ...
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Hudson River Food Chain
1,541 wordsThe Hudson River is a body of water that stretches for 315 miles from the Adirondack Mountains to the Battery in Manhattan, reaching its deepest point of 216 feet in the Highlands near Constitution Island and West Point and reaches its widest point of 3 miles across at Have straw. This river is one of the most beautiful and scenic of the Tri-State area. Unfortunately, it happens to be New York? s most polluted river. The river has been influenced upon since the early 1600? s, when Englishman Hen...
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Making It Illegal Drunk Driving
590 wordsRadon is earth? s only naturally produced radioactive gas. It comes from the breakdown of uranium in soil, rock, and water. Radon has no odor, no taste, and can not be seen. When it comes indoors it can become a health hazard. Radon can enter your house through cracks and openings in the foundation, floor, and walls. Radon decays and is inhaled into the lungs. The energy released can damage the DNA in lungs and can cause cancer. I think that a law making it illegal to sell a home containing rado...
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Circle Of Life Whaling Commission
1,497 wordsSurvival of the Fittest What is the point of not letting the Japanese hunt whales? Japan is the worlds largest consumer of whale meat (Shimbuu 1). As you might already be able to tell, I am not a big whale activist. If these whales were an endangered species, I would feel they had a right to be protected. These whales which are being hunted are not endangered, though, and I feel they are fair game. This paper will cover many topics that support Japanese whaling, such as their economy, culture, a...
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