Environmental factor

the many environmental issues hospitals dispense. There is also a field in psychology that looks at the behavior and interaction of humans with the environment called environmental psychologists. These types of psychologists aim to…

Farms use chemicals on their crops where they soak into the soil from natural irrigation these substances run off the groundwater, lake, stream, river, etc. contaminating the water supply. “The concern about the environmental effects of the chemical pesticides and fertilizers used by conventional large agricultural operation, and particularly about the possibility of negative health effects associated with ingestion of the food produced using such chemicals.” (Culler…

Environmental impacts of air pollution can result precipitation containing harmful amounts of nitric and sulfuric acids produced by the burning of fossil fuels (EPA, 2016). These acids can fall in the form of wet precipitation, such as rain, snow, or fog, or…

Air pollution has been a growing concern in the New England area over the past few decades. Air pollution can come from many different sources including stationary sources like factories and power plants, mobile sources like vehicles, agricultural sources found from gassy animals and their waste products, as well as natural sources like wildfires, dust storms and other natural occurrences. Various cities around New England have identified the sources that are contributing to the air pollution…

Ethics, broadly defined, is the a set of values or principles established by society for its betterment. Many of these values and principles are incorporated into culture and law. Organizations today integrate ethics into the foundation of their businesses in order to augment the professional value and trustworthiness of the their enterprise. Both public and private companies are expected to uphold certain ideals and internal controls for the benefit of their stakeholders. Operating with high…

to put CSR over their profits margins this is evident by both their charitable and environmental work. MGM has been widely recognized as the gold standard in their industry for the environment awareness and conciseness. MGM did not wait until they had environmental issued they instead took a different approach. MGM decided to go the rout of preventive measure as they sought to improve there already high environmental standards. MGM’s preventive measures has allowed them to be a highly…

The Clean Air Act (CAA) is an environmental law made by the U.S. government. This federal law aims at regulating air emissions from stationary sources such as industries and mobile sources such as vehicles. It was established to authorize the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to establish National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) that protects the public health through regulation of emissions that have a hazardous effect on air (Sueyoshi & Goto, 2010). The CAA was established in 1963…

similar to the state of the environment today. Environmental concerns such as air and water pollution were, and are currently a major concern. The main difference in 1948 however, was that pertinent regulations and laws had yet to be enacted. Conceivably, the main benefit of an unfortunate pollution catastrophe in 1948, which put into motion several environmental milestones, was the Federal Water Pollution Control Act. This act paved the road for environmental turning points such as The Clean…

1. The Ballast Water Management Convention (BWMC) Ballast water management is defined as the “mechanical, physical, chemical, and biological processes, either singularly or in combination, to remove, render harmless, or avoid the uptake or discharge of Harmful Aquatic Organisms and Pathogens (HAOP) within Ballast Water and Sediments. (IMO, 2004) In February 2004, the IMO adopted the International Convention for the Control and Management of Ships’ Ballast Water and Sediments (the Ballast Water…

The Cause and Effect of Land and Air Pollution What is pollution? Well pollution is a term we hear a lot and that we are accustomed to but what does is it really mean. (Conserve Energy) We hear about pollution a lot but could you tell me what it is if I asked you? Well I know that pollution is the introduction of a harmful substance to the environment. Pollution is the most reused word used to describe the destruction of the natural air we breathe in and the water we drink and land we live on.…