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    Gilbane Gold, David Jackson, the engineer responsible for waste treatment in Z-Corp, was put in a very difficult situation. In the beginning, David was getting results from Frank’s waste water discharge tanks that showed that they have been releasing arsenic and lead at higher levels than what the city allows. The waste water ends up into the popular and profitable sludge product called Gilbane Gold. Gilbane Gold is sold as a fertilizer to farmers for about 75 years. David mentions his concern…

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    HL 531 Week 1 Assignment

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    We are writing to provide you with an update to our site cleanup and remediation efforts, specifically as it relates the holdback provision of our Agreement. As you are aware, the site due diligence and soils investigations we completed during our acquisition process confirmed the presence of contaminated and/or impacted soils at 50 Ann St. which require clean-up and removal prior to us being able to advance our residential re-development proposal. Our Agreement with you requires that prior to…

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    [Hook] Pollution can occurs in many forms, all of which have harmful effects on people and the environment. Most commonplace actions we do in our daily life either enhances or creates pollution. Since pollution is the intermixing of toxins into the environment, it is obviously harmful to people as well since we depend on the environment to survive and continue or daily lives. Out of the many different types of pollution, the main types are water, land, and air. These mainly affect both people…

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    Lake Atitlan Essay

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    Crystal clear water, mountainous green terrain, and around a dozen culture-filled villages is what people generally imagine when thinking of Lake Atitlan. The documentary titled “Atitlan in Bloom” is a collective of stories from various people in the lake community which shows the diversity, hard work, culture, and beliefs of the people there. There are scenes focusing on women who work with old fashioned looms, natural healers, Mayan priests, bus mechanics, and passionate peasants. The first…

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    coal, natural gas, nuclear energy. Nonrenewable resources are directly related to accelerated climate change and health problems. A recent coal ash spill in the Dan River in North Carolina is an example of what nonrenewable can lead to. Coal makes water toxic, is dangerous to inhale and harms ecosystems. Nonrenewable resources spilling and causing problems is nothing new. In 1986, a power plant in Chernobyl, Ukraine, had a meltdown and is still extremely radioactive to this day. An off shore oil…

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    Effects Of Ocean Pollution

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    Animals are affected by so many man made problems and because of the problems humans make animals go extinct or are slowly dying. Sea turtles are vulnerable to ocean pollution at all stages of their life from being eggs to swimming in the ocean. Toxic metals may concentrate in the liver and the kidney of sea turtles. Pollutants can cause immediate harm to sea turtles through direct contact or over time it builds up in their tissue and can lead to immunosuppression resulting into disease or…

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    United States independent. That is a common misconception about fracking. Fracking pollutes the environment, wastes a lot of water, and affects ground water. Hydraulic fracturing is also known as fracking. “Hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking, is a technique used to extract petroleum and natural gas from underground rock formations. A high-pressure mixture of water, sand and chemicals are pumped beneath the surface to release the gas trapped there. Some of the material pumped in returns…

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    Ocean Pollution Have you ever thought where all of that extra trash goes? Or where do they take the trash to? Well here is where they put it, in the ocean.This action affects Marine life very seriously. And it affects humans to. Whatever the fish eats, your eating too. Ocean pollution is when, us humans, dump billions of trash into the ocean. We dump trash into the ocean without even thinking about it twice. We think that it will dissolve into the ocean. But really, it is being eaten by the…

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    Jacinto River Pollution

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    like “no fishing.” None of these things moved the company causing the pollution out of the state or just completely shut it down because it wasn’t certain that there were pollutants actually inhabiting the river so there was nothing they could have done in order to further please the people of east Harris County. The association created to protect citizens from pollutants did investigate and practice certain tests on the river water but after while of not finding anything linked to the above…

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    Everywhere look today, there is garbage on the ground trees cut down, and polluted water and skies. This is not a new sight for anyone by any means, whether you live in a big city or a small town, you see garbage everywhere. Even as the months change it seems as if the garbage follows. Day by day more is added on top of the existing trash, it covers the ground, and clouds up, and ruins our water and skies. Humans are to blame for the excessive amounts of debris in our world, but, in some places…

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