United States Environmental Protection Agency

According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency or EPA, “The San Joaquin Valley has some of the nation’s worst air quality, failing to meet federal health standards for both ozone (smog) and particulate pollution. Ground level ozone pollution has a corrosive effect on the lungs…

polluted rivers in the U.S. are the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers. These two rivers together contain over 45,000,000 pounds of toxic discharges and supply water to at least 13 states. But these states are not the only ones suffering from these toxic tides. Sara Jerome revealed in her Water Online article on July 11, 2014 the top ten states with the worst contaminated drinking water: Indiana, Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Virginia, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, Georgia, North Carolina, and Ohio.…

order to survive. It covers about three-fourths of the earth’s surface and it also exists underground, in the air, and in organisms. People can rely on aquifers, precipitation, lakes, rivers, and more for a source of drinking water. Regarding the United States, ninety-one percent of public water systems are provided by groundwater. Nonetheless, more people, sixty-eight percent, are provided community water systems which uses surface water (Water Sources). A healthy source of water is crucial for…

Albuquerque, New Mexico (Figure 1). The site originally consisted of a groundwater-contaminant plume, spanning multiple aquifer zones up to 544 feet deep; it was approximately 3,500 feet long and ranged in width from 550 to 1,300 feet. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a record of decision (ROD) in 2001 (EPA, 2001) directing remediation of the site via multiple remedies. A pump-and-treat (P&T) system was constructed in 2003 - 2004, and began operation in 2005. In 2006, the…

enormous sum of money to support it. At the same time, oil and mining companies were taxed in order to support this fund. The fund was established in the early 80’s to support sites which have experienced environmental disaster. According to the documentary, Tar Creek is the “worst environmental disaster” (Myers, 2010). It was sad to witness how the town started to disappear when the mining industry arrived. The path of contaminated orange water begins in Kansas, it continues to run through…

Lung Association’s 2016 state of the air report found that New Hampshire’s Rockingham County was the only county to get failing grades for…

of the great lakes shoreline; and 14 percent of ocean shorelines. What do these statistics mean when paralleled to the question of health? Does pollution really affect health? Lastly, how do Sociologist view the topic of environmental issues in our social construct? Environmental issues such as air, water, land and chemical pollution have degraded the…

Acid rain is found all over the world as a result of the release of chemicals from burned fossil fuels, which has sources from nature and human-made. These chemicals are blamed for the causing environmental deterioration and detrimental effects to human health. The Environmental Protection Agency has enacted laws and regulations to prevent and reduce the effects of acid rain including the Clean Air Act of 1990 and the Acid Rain Program. Other technologies and initiatives have been created to…

and advanced electronic appliances, discarding the old ones. It is estimated that each year the discarded electronics worldwide weigh about 50 million metric tons; over 9.4 million tons of them are generated in the U.S. (2012). [1] According to the United Nations…

pointed to as for the responsibility of bringing about water pollution but it certainly can be stated that it starts with us humans. We each and everyday contribute to the pollution of water through our many sewage systems throughout not only the United States but the entire world. Billions of people on the planet disposing of sewage waste is a major problem, sewage disposal affects people 's immediate environments and leads to water-related illnesses such as diarrhea that kills 760,000…