Witness protection

enforcements towards the environmental management such as Lagos Plan of Action of 1980. A bill of adopting a Federal Environmental Protection Agency was passed in 1981 in the parliament. While other small units came to existence like Protection Division in the Federal Ministry of Works, Environmental planning and Housing put in place to deal with environmental protection. Unfortunately, the bill was not successful the situation became more worse the described in the 1980s with continuous assault…

can release in a given amount if time, and enforcement of the policy in the form of penalties, bargaining, incentives, and litigation. In terms of the CAA the goals were primarily to protect human health and secondarily to maintain visibility, and protection of crops and water. The first major feature of the CAA was the national air quality standards set by the EPA, which determined the criteria and quality standards of the CAA. It identified six pollutants to be reduced in the air: carbon…

In the book “Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class, and Environmental Quality” by Robert D. Bullard he discusses the importance of environmental quality and the effects of racial and social hierarchy’s contribution to environmental problems in poor, working class, urban communities. Being that Bullard is known as the “Father of environmental justice” this book is just one of many of the embodiments of everything he stands for as an environmentalist and sociologist. Not only does he inform the reader on…

INCIDENT/ ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION REPORT Title of the Incident/ Accident ST. Francis Dam disaster in California Brief Summary At 11:57PM on March 12, 1928, in the St. Francis Dam. It seemed that the huge dam collapse and so this was a catastrophic failure, it has been built to supply the city of Los Angeles with water because of the growing number of the population. The dam has been built by the Ministry of the Los Angeles Water and Power, in the period between 1924 and 1926. The department was…

Social and Environmental issues addressed in Trash and Wall-e -An analytical essay __________________________________________________________________ The main issue of overflowing waste in the texts (Wall-e and Trash) is mainly derived from the unawareness and sheer apathy from society; mainly the emotions and responses of a responsible authority body. Both texts facilitates the examination of human condition. However, Trash delves into a psychological aspect, in terms as this unawareness comes…

We focused on arsenic exposure health risk analysis through oral ingestion and dermal absorption pathways of groundwater in the present study. The local residents in the study area were interviewed for basic information such as age, sex, body weight, health status, socio-economic status, food habits and drinking water sources. It was mentioned that the residents were using mainly groundwater for drinking and other purposes. The poverty, lack of awareness and having no effective alternatives were…

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 environmental protection agency’s (EPA) is a Federal Government subsidiary and their mission is to project our health and that of the environment. The EPA accomplishes this feat by writing regulations and provides standards that implement laws established by Congress. In addition, the EPA works with other government and state level agencies to monitor the compliance of laws by conducting inspections on utility power plants or other industrial facilities. The clean Air Act (CAA), first put…

ferried across along with Sethe by Stamp Paid. However, before Denver is born, Sethe lays down almost completely defeated, believing that her unborn baby is “gonna die in wild onion on the bloody side of the Ohio River” (31). Wild onions symbolize protection and in a way, the onions “protected” Denver as Sethe refuses to allow herself to die as her baby would be doomed to die as well and also brings her a protector in the form of Amy, who guides her to the Ohio. Even with Amy’s assistance, Sethe…

John Snow was a major contributor for the way that epidemiologic concepts are used to combat some of our present day environmental threats. His work at the Broad Street Pump was a major contributor of this concept. The Broad Street Pump was the deadly cause of cholera in London many years ago. He convinced town officials to take the handle of the pump so that no one could get any contaminated water. With Snow’s investigation of where the cholera was coming from, he helped pave the way for many…