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Act “requires states to develop area-wide waste treatment management plans” and be submitted to EPA in return of federal financial assistance. It is considered ineffective because states lacked of incentives to link planning to implementation and is due to “the basic resistance of local governments to federal efforts to dictate planning structures and results”. As a result, federal funding for section 208 was discontinued in 1981.…

Manatees are marine mammals that need warm water in the colder months of the year to survive; which makes Florida a prime location. (Blitz, 2016). In the past, manatees depended exclusively on warm water springs as well as other sanctuary areas previously during the winter months, but with the discovering of power plants a large number of manatees started utilizing these release basins as sources of warm water for refuge. These power plants use bay water as coolant. Once released back into the…

I believe that the public should know about the chemicals in “produced water”, when a company is planning to drill, and where they are planning to drill. If people are going to be affected by the drilling, whether it be with contamination of their water or fumes from natural gas around their houses, they should know what is happening and how they will be affected. These large companies should be willing to admit there is a problem and find a solution to it before it gets out of hand. They should…

Today industry in the United States is adherent to a sizeable quantity of complex regulation (“Our Mission and What We Do”). Industrial regulation in America is endorsed by few, despised by many, but misunderstood by most. Those in support of the strict scrutiny that America imposes on her industry understand the consequences of not doing so to be much more repugnant than the mounds of legal paperwork and slightly decreased profits that regulation can generate. A substantial amount of industrial…

Agent Orange Many powerful people throughout time have made immense impacts in the world. People such as Martin Luther King; a man who influenced millions in the Civil Rights Movements and Bill Gates; a multi-billionaire who gives huge amounts to charities. King and Gates will go down in history as vital people who made the world a better place. Can you think of anyone else like these two? I know one person for sure will make that honorary list next to those people. He is loud, proud, has a lot…

waste facilities in low income communities of color throughout the United States. Most of the time the state corporate actors are the ones responsible they are the ones who decide where to place the hazardous waste; the state corporate is more concern with where to place the hazardous waste rather than the health and safety of the community, people and their environment. In 1987 a report was released Toxic Waste and Race by the United Church of Christ Commission on Racial Justice (UCCRJ); the…

aftermath of zinc and lead mining operations throughout the 1900s. The pollution has put local inhabitants at risk of different health issues, and while risk assessments have shown that no significant health risks are obvious compared to the rest of the state of Oklahoma, blood lead levels have been recorded to be high in Ottawa county children. Many different organizations, both government and private, are involved in the remediation of Tar Creek Superfund site. The cleanup process is…

Department for the federal Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry to issue an official health advisory(History of Raymark, unk). Political and societal concerns became intertwined when the city needed funding to clean up the tainted grounds. Cleaning the lands where children play and families live were the largest focus of the community and the state of Connecticut. In 1990’s the EPA, a government agency, got involved in the community cleanup working with city and state resources they…

Imagine yourself turning on the faucet like every other day and seeing the clear sparkling water. But wait, it isn’t that sparkly today. Even so, you pour it into the glass for your kid. Then you see it turns into a yucky brown color. You think it’s still okay, but it’s not. The Flint water crisis is a tragedy where the governor of Flint made a mistake by not telling one of the poorest cities in the U.S. , Flint, Michigan about lead in their water. If we are going to help the residents of…

A. Syllogism P1) If the government does not fund anti-lead programs, there is a greater chance of people getting lead-poisoning. P2) The government is not funding anti-lead programs. C) There is a greater chance of people getting lead-poisoning. B. Description The argument was found online from The New York Times in the Op-Ed section titled America is Flint. Nicholas Kristof, the author, discussed the issue of the Flint water crisis. In Flint, Michigan, water was contaminated. Lead from pipes…