United States Environmental Protection Agency

(Beck, 1979; University at Buffalo: The State University of New York, 1998) The advocacy of its community residents, work of the newly formed Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the health outcomes of the exposed population make it a model example of how epidemiology can help us understand the health implications of such tragedies. Background: What happened at the Love Canal? The Love Canal is located in the La Salle area of Niagara Falls in New York State.(University…

through science and technology. In biotechnology over the years has created legal issues in clinical research. In order to better understand biotechnology let’s start from the very beginning where the three main agencies oversee biotechnology and that’s the USDA, EPA, and FDA. These agencies allow biotechnology legally and safety be made but must be followed with regulations but it seems with so many regulations it’s affecting the biotechnology industry. Also, another role that must be followed…

Hazardous air pollutants pose health risks as well as environmental threats. The new law presents an operating permits program sculpted after a similar program under the Federal National Pollution Elimination Discharge System (NPDES) law. The purpose is to ensure compliance with all appropriate requirements of the Clean Air Act and to improve EPA 's ability to impose the Act. Air pollution sources subject to the program must obtain an operating permit, states must develop and implement the…

companies has been to a profit from their operations in order to please their shareholders. This report examines the recent case of VW Group and the scandal surrounding their attempt to cheat the emissions testing carried out by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in pursuit of profit, and the subsequent media attention that followed. I look at whether the group has lost legitimacy in the eyes of the public and of its shareholders and if there has been any effect on the automobile…

“By the year 2018, Volkswagen intends to reduce the environmental impact of every vehicle and component it produces by 25% compared to 2010 levels. The company measures the achievement of its target on the basis of five key indicators: energy, water, waste, CO2 and emission of solvent” (Volkswagen Well Built: Production. Retrieved from http://en.volkswagen.com/en/company/responsibility/environmental-responsibility/production.html) Environmental indicator CO2 Emission From the bar charts (see…

Guinn_ENVM620_M6_GradedAssign 1. Air pollution transport is the migration of air pollution away from the source and negatively impacting surrounding areas. Often with the air pollution comes environmental degradation and a disproportionate burden of morbidity in populations who did not participate in the production of the pollution. The regional and global air currents are responsible for this phenomenon. Depending on where the pollution is generated, it will be regulated differently, with…

The Central Valley has played an important role in California being the strongest economic state in the country. The Central Valley, which population centers comprise of Fresno, Clovis, Modesto, and Visalia, have contributed substantially to California’s economy by being one of its leading agricultural producers. In contrast to its city-orientated “brother” in south California, or the “Bay area,” the Central Valley does not typically have busy streets, tall buildings, sandy beaches, and…

The students at Smithville Elementary School are currently on there much anticipated trip to Tougaloo College. For months the students have been learning about the various trees and birds native to Mississippi. On today, they will finally get to see those trees and birds up close while on a nature walk through Tougaloo College forest. Upon arrival the students were shocked to see that the hundreds of acres of trees were being bulldozed in order to begin construction on a new shopping center.…

the phase. The plants involved were required to reduce their annual sulfur dioxide emissions by 3.5 million tons. In 2000, Phase II began. The Phase I units and two thousand more units joined. By the time Phase II ended, most power plants in the United States were affected by this program. The act cut emissions of sulfur dioxide by forty percent from the 1990 levels. The amount of nitrogen oxide emissions were half of what they would have been without the program. Lakes and forests affected by…

40% of mercury emissions released into the air (Human Health and Environmental Effects of Emissions from Power Generation). So, who is responsible? The air is not privately owned, thus no one is likely to take on the sole responsibility of maintaining its purity (tragedy of the commons). Therefore, reduction of air pollution falls on the government’s shoulders (Air Pollution). The United States Environmental Protection Agency, an agency of the U.S. federal government, has taken on the mission to…