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The Dakota Access Pipeline is a 1168-mile crude oil pipeline crossing North Dakota to Illinois. The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe is a federally recognized American Indian indigenous community that has a reservation in North and South Dakota, which has asked for an injunction of the construction of the pipeline, arguing that the construction and the operation of the pipeline threatens the Tribe’s environmental and economic well-being, as well as damaging and destroying sites that has great historic,…

Hybrid and Electric Cars In the article Hybrid and Electric Cars, the author addresses the claim that electric vehicles resolve or improve a variety of modern problems. His article states that there is controversy regarding this claim. Using elements of rhetoric, the author impresses on the reader that electric cars are not the best solution for the environment nor the economy. The author first argues that electric vehicles best serve American interests. First, the writer quotes Brian Wynne,…

Based on true events, Boston attorney Jan Schlictmann takes on two powerful businesses suspected of polluting the drinking water in Woburn Massachusetts. Schlictmann, a wealthy and successful personal injury attorney, finds himself entrenched in a long and expensive legal battle with Beatrice Foods, W.R. Grace, and a local tannery. Schlictmann intends to prove that these businesses neglected to properly dispose of harmful chemicals such as silicone and trichloroethylene. Motivated by greed, the…

Salt is used for a wide variety of purposes in every society every day. This is common knowledge. However, salt is actually more vital to human history and existence than most people think. Mark Kurlansky, author of Salt: A World History tells the story of human suffering, greed, enterprise and conquest in a surprising way: by telling the story of salt. As Kurlansky says in his introduction, “Salt is so common, so easy to obtain, and so inexpensive that we have forgotten that from the beginning…

Heading into the 1970’s, the United States was in an gasoline consuming mania. With the formation of the National Highway Association, more people were travelling across the country, commuting longer to work, and owning more than one car per household. During the 1950’s alone, oil consumption by Americans rose over fifty percent (Verrastro and Caruso). Moving into the 1970’s, crude oil production was big, but the demand was even larger. Following the start of the Yom Kippur war in the Middle…

DARKINYUNG COMMUNITY PROFILE The Darkinyung people are the traditional land owners of the Central Coast, remaining on this land for over twenty thousand years. Darkinjung land spans from the Hawkesbury River at its Southern most point, up North to Lake Macquarie, and from Mount Yengo in the West, to its East along the Pacific Ocean (Empowered Communities, 2016, “Central Coast”). Recently released statistics from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) (2011) reveal a total population of…

Rubbertown is a movie created by Remington Smith, the documentary is based small district in the southwestern part of Louisville, Kentucky. In this city, the citizens are in constant danger because the many chemical plants that reside in Rubbertown. Some of the chemical plants have contributed to as much as 30% of the population is dying of cancer, the documentary focuses on the lives that are affected by these chemical plants rather than a neutral perspective. Primarily the creator follows two…

Oil plays an important economic and social role in Venezuela. The country earns $15 to $20 billion per year in oil revenues, constituting between 75 and 80 percent of Venezuela's total exports. Taxes, royalties and dividends from PDVSA represent roughly 50 percent of all government revenues. Oil activity directly and indirectly generates around 40 percent of national economic activity. (Giusti) The oil impacts on Venezuelas economy can be broken down into three concentric circles. The first…

While the POGG clause has been successful in enacting a handful of effective national policy, it is not a clause to be relied on for innovative, forward thinking federal environmental legislation. It has, however, allowed for the federal government to pass a handful of environmental policies. For example, the Clean Air Act 1979 was passed through the use of the POGG clause by the federal government. Ultimately though, the Supreme Court through rulings has set precedents in both provincial and…

If you want to avoid a catastrophic climate change within the future of your existence, then the conversion of natural gas to liquid gas is not the answer for the future that you want for the America of tomorrow. So far, LNG plants seem to be the energy source that will bring a solution to the global warming disasters that fossil fuels have caused to the ozone layer, but the process of liquefying natural gas to an energy source is an intensive process. Brownsville is a city where it gets most of…