Smog

Let's Modernize Our Pollution Laws Critique In "Let's Modernize Our Pollution Laws" (8 October 2015), Gregg Easterbrook argues that the environmental laws are too outdated to do any help now. He feels that laws need to be modernized to accommodate the change in carbon emissions. At the conclusion of the article, he asks for a compromise between the two political parties to reduce carbon emissions from power plants. While Easterbrook makes some good points in his article, he fails to acknowledge…

Both complete and incomplete combustion have had a detrimental impact on both the environment and human health. In particular, the Greenhouse Effect, acid rain and photochemical smog, have come to light as a significant issue in recent years. When hydrocarbons, known more commonly as fossil fuels, are combusted, there are unintended waste products and they cause harm to human health and the environment. These waste products have social, economic and environmental implications. The effects…

Wildfires can destroy homes and habitats, create smog and take many lives. Wildfires can destroy homes and habitats. When animals homes are destroyed they have to find a new place to live and the animals who already live there will be pushed out of there homes. When wildfires destroy homes people are forced to move or spend a lot of money to replace their house. This can be very expensive for the community and hurt the economy. Wildfires can make smog. Smog is bad for you because it has…

Although the word smog (“雾霾”) first appeared in the newspaper Beijing Daily on May 4th, 2004, the smog problem did not raise public attention until 2012 when the government adopted the particulate matter 2.5 (PM2.5) index as one of the measurements for air quality (Xue 2016; “Baidu Index” 2017). Since then, many artists have created artworks in response to the air pollution. One of the most famous pieces is Chai Jing’s multimedia documentary Under the Dome: Investigating China’s Smog.1 It…

certificate of a smog inspection at the time of the sale. The certificate is only valid if the inspection occurred within 90 days of the vehicle being sold. If you transfer the title of the vehicle to another person, regulations state that you do not have to have a smog check performed as long as the vehicle is 4 years old or less, however, the person who the title is being transferred into must pay an eight-dollar smog transfer fee. If the vehicle is older than 4 years, there must be a valid…

environmental damage, things will only get harder to fix. But things are looking good for Mother Nature, because according to all four articles given, including, “In German Suburb, Life Goes on Without Cars”, by Elisabeth Rosenthal, “Paris bans driving due to smog”, by Robert Duffer, “Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota”, by Andrew Selsky, and “The End of Car Culture”, by Elisabeth Rosenthal, people are already taking steps to reduce the use of cars and better the…

causing more pollution than what their papers say. Each car company displays the fuel regulations each car has, their ratings and where they stand when it comes to smog pollution. Volkswagen was displaying that when it came to smog pollution, they were 8 out 10 of making less, but on the actual test, Volkswagen was making double the smog and ultimately lying to the people. Safety is the number 1 focus for anyone with this scandal, Volkswagen’s president stepped down, they were fined millions of…

The Confrontational Truth There are instances where people of communities overlook the climatic change, and mistake the change for something less exhaustive than what the change really is. Most people in Canada do not think about global warming when there is a nice, sunny, hot day during a season of the colder months, but in contrast they think about how lucky and thankful they are enough to be receiving such wonderful weather. This is a form of ignorance, and with ignorance it is bliss to…

January 31st, 1950 President Truman announced that the Atomic Agency was told to continue with its work on the Hydrogen Bomb. Five months before this, the Soviet Union successfully detonated an atomic bomb at their test site in Kazakhstan. Then many weeks after that, British and U.S. intelligence found out that the German-born Klaus Fuchs, a top ranked scientist in the U.S nuclear program was a spy for the Soviet Union. This made Truman approve the massive funding for the superpower race to…

factories are a major culprit of air pollution in this day and age. According to Everyday Life, burning of fossil fuels, including oil, coal, and natural gases are to blame. (Cleanerandgreener) Not to mention that burning fossil fuels are the leading cause smog, acid rain, and global…