Environmental enrichment

In Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash, written in 2012, Edward Humes, a Pulitzer prize and PEN award winning journalist and author in California, educates his readers on the economic, social, and environmental issues revolving around the waste. Humes begins his novel by describing landfills and the struggles many face with maintaining them due to incorrect sealing, being uneducated in waste management, and making excuses. Humes determines that the only way to “fix” our mess is to change…

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…

oil extraction sites. The “Clean Water Act”, an act to ensure that bodies of water are not infected by chemicals and remain in a stable state that is not harmful wildlife, or plants that rely on these bodies of water. Organizations like the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) create the guidelines to ensure that the resources that make up the environment continues to replenish resources that are essential to the health of ecosystems. This effort by the EPA has forced major fracking cities to…

taken as environmental problems and the most important ecological problem is the air pollution. This issue has a long history and is impacting on the health of the individuals since 500 BC. Various human activities of that time have emerged and evolved with the passage of time and thus extended environmental issues. Air pollution is one of the major ecological problems. Environmental problems were first discovered at the time of ancient Athens and Rome when they complaint about environmental…

Throughout the movie, the Environmental Protection Agency places a large dome over the town of Springfield in response to people polluting the town's lake with hazardous and contaminated substances. Even though it was over exaggerated to place a dome over an entire town and cutting them off from society. The EPA felt it was justified for them to take similar actions, but not to the degree that would end up having a town isolated. Placing the dome represents and portrays how much power the EPA…

I chose the Pensacola Naval Air Station, Pensacola Florida because that is the site in which the majority of my family lives and works on. This station is home of Aviation Schools, Air Technical Training, Marine Aviation Training, and the Blue Angels. This station was placed on the National Priorities List in 1989 due to the contaminated surface and ground water, soil and sediments. This contamination dates back to before World War 2 where there weren’t any regulatory guidance on dumping waste…

CHAPTER FIVE 5.0 RESPONSES, AND THEIR INADEQUACIES 5.1 Introduction: This chapter acknowledges the role of every stakeholder related to the environmental degradation in the Lake Chad Basin, in ensuring the sustainability of the environment and minimizing the threat to security in the region. It acknowledges the fact that there is some level of awareness about the root cause of the issues plaguing the region, and that there have been efforts, albeit inadequate, to prevent, address, or mitigate…

According to the EPA of United States Environmental Protection Agency, a pesticide is “any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling, or mitigating any pest. Pests can be insects, mice and other animals, unwanted plants (weeds), fungi, or microorganisms like…

According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency or EPA, “The San Joaquin Valley has some of the nation’s worst air quality, failing to meet federal health standards for both ozone (smog) and particulate pollution. Ground level ozone pollution has a corrosive effect on the lungs…

Environmental protection agency (EPA) respond heavily to public health issue and to environmental issues. Like many agency decisions, the EPA's decision centered on cost-benefit analysis, attempting to determine the appropriate economic burden necessary to achieve an adequate level of safety, and whether this burden was reasonable (Wecker, 1994). Reserve Mining v. EPA and Corrosion Proof Fittings v. EPA cases focused mainly on regulating a use of asbestos. This essay will summarize the trail…