United States Environmental Protection Agency

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    marked the commencement of the modern environmental movement (Jaffe et al. 1995, 132). Since that time, the United States federal government has initiated a number of command and control environmental policies to regulate activities. There is disagreement about rather these government controls are morally correct, though, such as with the recent Stream Protection Rule. Scholars like Robert Nozick would believe that environmental regulations impede on individuals’ rights, while John Rawls would claim that environmental regulations are vital in order to maximize the benefits for all of society. I will argue that you can alleviate these two opposing arguments by creating a market-based policy solution…

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    The United States Environmental Protection Agency is an agency of the . federal government which was created for the purpose of protecting human health and the environment. The EPA was founded by President Richard Nixon and was structured on December 2, 1970 when operations began. After Nixon signed an executive order. The EPA is mostly controlled by its administrator, who is appointed by the president and followed by needing to be approved by Congress. Though the EPA is not a Cabinet…

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    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…

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    Many events that led up to the creation of the Clean Water Act, one example is the 1960s was the peak of the environmental problems throughout the country water pollution was at all-time high. The effects of polluted waters on public health become a hot topic, citizens demanded the government do something about it (Clark). This lead to the creation of the environmental protection agency by President Nixon…

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    The people of China have become extremely concerned with all the environmental issues that have been going on in the last past 10 years. To correct the problems the Chinese government has taken multiple steps to make the best of the situation. The Chinese state is filled with environmental problems which make them enforce environmental policies, mainly in rural areas. In most cases, people don’t understand nor realize the environmental effects of any polluting activities. For example, when…

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    famous for its insecticidal properties and resulting environmental impact. In 1939, the Swiss chemist, Paul Hermann Muller discovered DDT’s insecticidal properties. In World War II DDT was used to control malaria and typhus among civilian troops. It was later used as an agricultural insecticide and as it popularity increased, it gained commercial use. In 1962, Rachel Carson published Silent Spring, a book tracing the environmental impact of the nationwide spraying of DDT and the ethical concerns…

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    Trichloroethylene Essay

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    degreasing, distillation, and painting operations (Woodside, 1999). Trichloroethylene is a liquid used as a solvent, and in other compounds (Environmental Protection Agency, 2011). Annually 10 million pounds of Trichloroethylene is used to manufacture Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) (Gilbert & Heuvel, 2014). While current figures are not available, the EPA put US production of Trichloroethylene in 1991 at 321 million pounds (Environmental Protection Agency, 2012). When released into the air…

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    EVENTS Environmentalism began as a movement in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s after early awareness of threats to the environment, the publishing of the book Silent Spring, the first Earth Day, and the formation of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). However, humanity's relationship and dependence on the earth for survival has existed since the beginning of time. Ancient civilizations, such as Rome, Babylon, and Greece, dealt with the problem of air pollution. “Excessive…

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    Skin Peeling: A Case Study

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    It has been reported that the use of phenol is the surgical procedure of skin peeling can produce cardiac arrhythmias although specifics of dose received were not determined and would be expected to be extremely high (Office of Environmental Health Hazzard Assessment, 2015). In 1985 a group of iron and steel foundry workers with multiple chemical and aerosol exposures were examined and found to have more respiratory systems in the phenol exposed group (Office of Environmental Health Hazzard…

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    Effects Of Smog

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    Introduction Today smog is a visible type of air pollution that appears in a thick, foggy haze in the air. There are many sources where smog come from for example, industrial fumes, vehicle emissions, and even comes from paints and hairsprays. In many cities smog is the culprit from vehicle emissions. Smog can be composed of many other chemical compounds thus coming from many different sources. In this paper there will be a discussion of the harmful impacts of smog and what the United States…

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