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Air Pollution Policy and Controversy Rachel Carson boldly warned the American people in 1962 that if the United States continued its agricultural and industrial practices, songbirds would cease to exist. Losing an important part of the ecological food chain would have repercussions, possibly worse than we could imagine. While literature like Silent Spring helped bring attention to environmental concerns in the mid to late 1900s, several fatal disasters struck a stronger chord. Smog in…

December 2, 2016 in Oakland, California a fire broke out in a warehouse known as Ghost Ship. At that time they were hosting a concert that had artists from the house music record label 100 percent silk. 36 people were killed in that fire and it is said that is was the deadliest fire ever in the history of Oakland. It was the deadliest in California since the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Nobody knows exactly what caused the fire but it was such a bad warehouse because of all the safety hazards…

room. At the bottom of the stairs, the main exit was equipped with doors that opened inward. The resulting crush of people led to the crushing or suffocation deaths of 72 people (Daily Mining Gazette, 1982). The design of the egress system within this disaster led directly to the tragic outcome (Tubb & Meacham, 2007). It is important to know that this disaster happened more than ten years prior to the publication of the first model building code (the uniform building code) and at approximately…

M. C Mehta v. Union of India Case brief Facts 1. On December 4, 1985 a major leakage of oleum gas took place from the chlorine plant in sriram food fertilizers which adversely affected various employees of the organization as well as the nearby residents of the locality. On December 6, 1985 another minor oleum gas leakage took place from the joints of the pipe in the plant. The Delhi administration ordered sriram to stop the manufacturing of the hazardous gases and chemicals. 2. At this point, M…

Case Questions Week 7 2 -R. Williams Construction Co v. OSHRC, Ch 15, p 548 -What was the legal issue in this case? What did the court decide? -The legal issue in this case is if the Williams is responsible for violating OSHA’s standard safety regulations when the trench collapsed, and an employee was killed because of the accident. The court decide that the company was to be cited for violating the OSHA safety standards. -What exactly did the employer do or fail to do that…

HINKLEY, CARLIFORNIA NEWS FORUM 01 August 1993 WATER CONTAMINATION IN HINKLEY I am Erin Brokovich; I am a twice-divorced mother of three young children aged between 9 months to 8 years old. I believe the $28 billion company Pacific Gas and Electric has poisoned the water supply of Hinkley, California with hexavalent chromium. In 18 months, I hope with the help of 634 plaintiffs and Masry law firm to sue PG&E for 333 million dollars for the water contamination in Hinkley. PG&E is a $28…

Why Professional Furnace Repair Can Be a Lifesaver Many people heat their homes in the fall and winter using a central furnace. While they are common in many homes, they are often fairly complex machines that the average homeowner knows little about. They require electricity, a combustible fuel source like natural gas, and hot air. In order to heat your entire home, that boiler needs to get really hot. In the 1960s and 1970s, there were roughly four furnace explosions per year on average.…

From the early 1900s, Zonolite vermiculate mine was a primary worldwide that produce 80 percent of vermiculite production. However, the toxicity that was not clarified from government and mining fill to the miners were slowly killing in the town, Libby. Based on the article, A Town Left to Die, written by Andrew Schneider, it depicted how people suffer from the toxins in the air, asbestos, which came from the vermiculate mining. Agent What agent was responsible for the illness in the Libby…

On October 26, 1948 smog, that was confirmed to be fatal, had encompassed a small town named Donora, located in Pennsylvania. The majority of these residents were used to the smoke that had emerged or arose due to a local zinc smelter. However, on this day there was an adjustment in temperature and a deficiency of wind that confined a deadly mixture of sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide, and metal dust. This toxic mixture ends up remaining in the air for five days. Forlornly, due to this…

Q1. Is compliance enough? Legislations are made so that companies follow rules and policies in fear of harsh punishments of non-compliance. In the case of Deepwater Horizon, the chain of command consisted of a VP of drilling and operations who was barely 3 months into his job. Companies should follow legislations not for the sake of compliance but also to make sure that they create an environment of solidarity and an command chain that consists of experienced personnel who have the foresight to…