Environmental enrichment

organochloride made famous for its insecticidal properties and resulting environmental impact. In 1939, the Swiss chemist, Paul Hermann Muller discovered DDT’s insecticidal properties. In World War II DDT was used to control malaria and typhus among civilian troops. It was later used as an agricultural insecticide and as it popularity increased, it gained commercial use. In 1962, Rachel Carson published Silent Spring, a book tracing the environmental impact of the nationwide spraying of DDT and…

Construction Pollutants Construction work is essential in order for our society to expand and develop. However, construction work can take a toll on the environment and the community around it. Air, water, and noise pollution are the three main pollutants that affect the environment and community. Air pollution mainly comes from the toxins emitted by the construction equipment. According to the US EPA Clean Air Act Advisory Committee, “A single bulldozer engine can emit as much particulate…

provide justification for any waivers. ARARs include substantive provision of any promulgated federal, or more stringent state, environmental standards, requirements, criteria, or limitations that are determined to be legally ARARs for a CERCLA site or action. Application requirements are those cleanup standards, standards of control, and other substantive environmental protection requirements, criteria, or limitations, promulgated under federal or state law, which specifically address a…

Introduction The article I chose for Essay two talks about president elect Donald J. Trump nomination decision for the Environmental Protection Agency (E.P.A). Trump chose Scott Pruitt, who is currently the attorney general for Oklahoma, as head of the EPA. The article states that this decision can have a negative effect in the environment, due to the fact that Pruitt supports the fossil fuel industry. The article also states how Pruitt has constantly shown his support against President Obamas…

As most everyone knows, California is currently experiencing a severe drought; but, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, so is “over 36 percent of the continental U.S.” not to mention that “a fifth of the world’s [population], [that is,] more than 1.2 billion [people], live in areas of physical water scarcity.” Living in the United States, it can be easy to disregard a drought and the importance of water conservation because we always manage to obtain the water necessary to supply…

Business and Situation Analysis The Coca-Cola Crisis- Communicating with the Communities The Situation On 5 August 2003, the Center for Science and Environment (CSE), a research and public advocacy group released statement claiming that 12 major cold drink brands sold in the vicinity of Delhi were found to contain a number of carcinogenic substances including pesticide residues. The accusations were based on tests conducted by the Pollution Monitoring Laboratory, in which three out of twelve…

We have one planet to live on. Have you ever thought of that? We only have this one giant rock, hurtling through the sky at speeds too fast for us to even comprehend; and we have nowhere else to go. Yet, we still take advantage of our home. We pollute it, mine mountains, clear-cut forests and think nothing of it. In everyday life people normally like to keep their home clean and tidy, they may buy insurance to help them buy a new one if something happens to their old one. Earth is our home, yet…

The state of California is driven by high productivity, the demand to produce and deliver makes air pollution inevitable. Air pollution is caused by air gasses that emit into the atmosphere, ultimately contaminating the air. The central valley of California is notorious for poor air quality, it has even been referred to as ‘America’s toxic agricultural capital’ (Leslie, 2010). The California Central Valley is greatly focused on agriculture, it is filled with farmers who rely heavily on their…

If you do not know what you are doing or you have not weighed out all the possible outcomes, you should not act like you have perfect confidence in what you are doing. This is a problem that is common in not just environmental fields. Acting like you know what you are doing when you actually do not is a crime plain and simple. The president of the lake lied and ignored the other residents of Larchwood Lake because he thought he knew what was best for them. This would…

training. NCRP reports were critical in the 2002 revision to skin dose, 1999 guidance on prenatal expose, 1996 guidance for risk for occupational exposure and 2010 guidance on measuring effective dose equivalents. (Kase, 2016)(Jones, 2005) The Environmental Protection Agency has utilized NCRP recommendation for the major policy decisions. The 1960 Federal Guidance for Occupational Exposure used ALRA, ‘as low reasonably achievable, ' principles in the NCRP “Review of the Current State of…