Air pollution

The Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) in every state has a program that focuses on attaining and maintaining air quality standards with the finality of reducing the factors that could potentially affect a person’s health. Oregon has adopted regulations from neighboring states such as California, as they have had more experience and knowledge in alternative ways for reducing air pollutants. Part of that transition has been to develop and enforce Low Emission Vehicle Regulations. A likely…

Spills"). All of these factors combine to eradicate entire ecosystems (Oceana). Therefore, the immense quantity of oil released from offshore oil drilling poses a large risk to the wildlife and their valuable habitats. Also, the large quantity of air pollution released while oil drilling deals significant harm to the atmosphere. According to Culture Change, an organization dedicated to lowering petroleum consumption, "a single offshore oil rig... pollute[s] the…

Bringing Back Trains This paper is focused on persuading the American voters to vote for leaders who want an increased spending budget for the American railways. There are big problems with our nation that can been fixed easily, but we keep looking the other way. Currently, there are millions of pounds of pollutants being released into our atmosphere by our cars and freight laden trucks. Not to mention our health, our money, and our countries independence are being neglected do to the overuse…

passed, “Pollution and Control Act”, hence becoming the first Act to benchmark on setting industry standards. Following 1970, Congress again passed the clean Air Act as the automobile industry is growing fast and high competitive hence having these laws enacted in curbing behavior change and instilling sense of responsibility to the users and the automakers, with focus on sustainability of the environment. Vehicle emission Environmental challenges…

regulations to prevent and reduce the effects of acid rain including the Clean Air Act of 1990 and the Acid Rain Program. Other technologies and initiatives have been created to increase public awareness in order to further reduce the effects of acid rain. Since its inception, there have been significant reductions in emissions and improved air quality. What is acid rain? It is more accurately known as acid deposition.…

Over the course of environmental law the eleven chapters covered throughout the semester processed the reoccurring themes cover to cover. Author Nancy Kubasek emphasizes how environmental quality is an adverse effect on man willful negligence and willful misconduct that is subsequent to negative externalities. With class discussion and supplemental video to reinforce concepts the emphasized them was easily identifiable in relation to the weekly case studies. Where in the case study of Thinking…

Emission of Particulate Matter (PM10, PM2.5, and PM0.1) comprises a considerable fraction of urban air pollution (Laden et al. 2006, Shackleton et al, 2013). Long term exposure of airborne particulates matter is directly associated with post neonatal infant mortality (Laden et al. 2006), Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) (Tracey et al. 2006) and various disease conditions such as; cardiopulmonary, lung cancer (Pope III, 2002), atherosclerosis (Araujo, 2011) and asthma (Anderson et al., 2013).…

health hazards in our society lately. Asthma is a chronic disease of the airways that makes breathing difficult. Honestly, many researchers can't explain the reason for why it is so common. They do have many theories though, some say that the air quality and pollution can cause much harm to us. Two other theories about asthma being so common suggest that the small space of our homes, as well as the materials that make up our homes, promote the development of asthma. Researchers suggest that when…

"By 2050, one-third of the world 's energy will need to come from solar, wind, and other renewable resources"(Alternate Energy). As time goes by coal, oil, natural gas depletes which will cause economic and social problems.Oil causes harm to the atmosphere by polluting everything around it and to solve this problem scientists are working to build sustainable energy sources such as solar panels. Given unlimited resources researchers could investigate and find an alternative to power the planet…

Due to the major presence of fossil fuels and gas emissions released by vehicles and energy based facilities, shifting towards green buildings will reduce air pollution and promote the social and well being in the communities. Green spaces can help combat pollutants and respiratory issues that are occurring in poor communities, as well can help with the social well being and promote psychological health. Social programs implemented in parks and the green projects provided in facilities can…