Environmental scanning

Numerous studies have been done to determine how pollution is affecting our earth, and the humans who live on it. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was developed by President Richard Nixon on December 2, 1970. The United States created the EPA for the purpose of protecting human health and the environment by banning and limiting harmful pollutants by means of laws and testing standards. There are three main areas the EPA attempts to monitor and protect; those three main concerns are air,…

Imagine this… muddy water, fish dying, and smelly lakes. Yup. These were the descriptions of the U.S’s waterways before 1972. We were in serious trouble. Some waterways became wasteland of smelly water and floating sludge. All over the country people were troubled about how we employ water and they let the government know. The effect was the Water Act of 1972 and its goals of making water "fishable and swimmable." In 1972, Congress passed a law called The Water Act of 1972 to help protect and…

INTRODUCTION TO ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION STUDIES Pollution is the process of making the environment dirty, unsafe, or unsuitable to use. Worldwide pollution affects more than 200 million people. The two countries responsible for creating almost half of the planet’s carbon dioxide emissions is China and the United States (“Gallucci and Horn”). However, Americans are 5% of the world’s population and use 25% of the world’s resources. American’s burn up nearly 25% of coal, 26% of oil, and 27% of…

The smog policy in California is also frequently referred to as the smog check program and was first implemented in 1984. Its main purpose is to ensure the adherence to the goal of having cars make the least amount of pollution. This policy dictates that all cars should undergo inspections, but there are certain car categories that have been exempted from the biennial smog inspections. A key part of the policy involves the identification of the cars that have the highest levels of pollution and…

Today, in a society full of advanced technology, people think our country is perfect. With water resistant phones, 3-D holographic advancements, and cars equipped with automatic braking systems, it is no wonder Americans have this perceived idea of perfection. However, our country is suffering from a problem that we thought only third world countries suffered from, and our carelessness about this issue is not helping our increasingly dangerous situation. Water is everything; water is everywhere.…

The proposition in which I chose to conduct research on is California Proposition 65. This proposition is also known as the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986. This proposition was issued by the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment. According to the website prop 65 clearinghouse this proposition does not allow a person who is doing business in California to expose chemicals that can cause cancer or reproductive toxicity without giving a warning. Also chemicals are…

enormous sum of money to support it. At the same time, oil and mining companies were taxed in order to support this fund. The fund was established in the early 80’s to support sites which have experienced environmental disaster. According to the documentary, Tar Creek is the “worst environmental disaster” (Myers, 2010). It was sad to witness how the town started to disappear when the mining industry arrived. The path of contaminated orange water begins in Kansas, it continues to run through…

Prior to the 19th century, the idea of ‘wilderness’ was associated with desolation and an incredible fear of the unknown. This can mostly be attributed to early Christianity; in the Bible all things ‘wild’ were of hellish nature and meant only unpredictable darkness. It wasn’t until the beginning of the American romantic movement that this perception began to shift in the wake of great minds such as Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, James Fenimore Cooper, Thomas Cole, and many other…

strategic planning is the process of coming up with steps that will ensure that the vision of an organization remain on cause in relation to different factors such as external and internal environmental (Job, 2012). In this case, strategic planning process involves four key steps which include Environmental Scanning, Strategy Formulation, Strategy Implementation and Strategy Evaluation. On the other hand, managers and top level executive should have decision making skills in the process of…

Environmental Assessment in Healthcare The healthcare industry over the past few decades has experienced numerous amounts of change. One consistent variable in this industry is, healthcare is always changing due to environmental or external factors. Environmental market scans is a valuable tool utilized by marketing departments in an organization. The five environmental forces that the assessment focuses on includes: economic, technological, social, competitive, and regulatory factors. Each one…