Superfund

the Fire and Ice Gods. In the article “In Katrina’s Wake” by John Manuel, we learn that the aftermath of the event has been just as bad as the disaster itself. The Natural Resources Defense Council observed that the Agricultural Street Landfill Superfund Site had “visible leachate emerging from the site and spreading across the street and onto a local senior center’s property. Sediment testing at this site found contamination as much as 20 times higher than the EPA soil cleanup standards…” (37).…

Number one was to allow the companies that caused contamination to clean it. Number two was to allow federal government to get involved and Wichita to be awarded Superfund for the cleanup. Neither of these solutions satisfied Chris, because both of them forced the blame on to either private, or public sectors. In order to achieve maximum results Cherches saw the need to manage all the intergovernmental relationships…

A person’s race determines where they will live, due to environmental racism, which is the placement of low income communities specifically minorities in hazardous environments. Environmental racism is what caused African American, Henley Clark and his family to move into homes in the shadows of refineries. Leaving them to inhale noxious fumes and become witness to the destruction of nature. Realizing that predominantly rich white residents didn’t want them around, they had no other option but…

Department of Public Health (GDPH) in the Environmental Health Branch program called the Chemical Hazards Program (CHP). I assisted the CHP staff by creating and maintaining a database from their Environmental Health Education Needs Assessment on a Superfund site investigation in relation to uranium in private well-water. The health data was then evaluated, recommendations were made, and, as a result, I co-authored the Environmental Health Education Needs Assessment Report which entailed…

S. Fish and Wildlife Service to start cleanup of the base. Rocky Mountain Arsenal was later transformed into a National Wildlife Refuge. The reading assignment all basically support the clean-up of the Rocky Mountain Arsenal. This project was a superfund project by the Federal government. The Rocky Mountain Arsenal was concerned a top five…

the news you should be able to tell we live in a disposable society and as long as we continue to purchase replacement items it is not going to change. However, I read the annotated script and find it interesting that Silicon Valley has 29 toxic Superfund sites. With the prestige, deep pockets, and limited resources in Silicon Valley I would have thought that most of these sites would have been cleaned and completed by now. The link listed in the reference section shows “not found” with a…

Al Gore is the acclaimed winner of a Nobel Peace Prize, a Grammy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and was the runner-up for Time magazine’s “Person of the Year” in 2007 1. He has received international recognition for his involvement in politics, business, and environmental activism. He was the vice president under Bill Clinton from 1993-2001, the Democratic nominee for the 2000 Presidential Election, a member of the board of directors at Apple, and a senior advisor to Google2. He has taught at…

In the Camden environmental racism text, low-income, lower class groups that are mostly African American or Latino were exposed to the waste facilities and heavy industry chemicals from two federal superfund sites. Due to the fact that the facility is situated on state land, the SLC would not have to pay property taxes and would not offer any benefits to Camden and its residents. As a former industrial center, the manufacturing businesses that once provided well-paying jobs went out of…

pledged the company's commitment to the environment through actions such as recycling and packaging. However, the company’s actions in Colberia and its anti-environmental lobbying efforts prove that the company does not care about the environment. The Superfund Tax of 1980, a federal tax law, authorized states and the Environmental Protection Agency to recover natural resources damages caused by hazardous substances from companies or parties responsible (Bateman & Snell, 2010). Had the Act still…

In 2005, the Energy Act gave Big Oil the right to slowly destroy our lands, impact our personal health, and to make huge sums of money extracting shale gas from both private and public owned lands, all under the disguise of energy independence. The act contains an exception loophole called the Halliburton Loophole. It is time for this loophole to be closed; for the protection of the health and for the safety of the country. According to Kate Sheppard, Senior Reporter and environment and energy…