Witness protection

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.…

Earth day and environmentalism of the poor both created institutions to promote their respective values and objectives. For example, Adam Rome explains in his presentation The Genius of Earth Day, “ Out of Earth Day comes national lobbying organization, one of them directly tied to earth day… many had been ad hoc groups that stayed in business” (Around 11:30 mins). The fact that earth day was followed by a “decade of environmental legislation” (Rome, Around 11:00 mins), shows these…

Introduction The purpose of this paper is to help compare and contrast the recent Flint, Michigan water crisis to similar incidents around the world using a sociological viewpoint then analyzing the gathered information to help determine how the crisis in Flint should have been handled. Flint The town of Flint resides in the state of Michigan and has been the attention of national news due to the high lead levels that were present in the city’s municipal water system. This is all started…

In the CNN article “How Tap Water Became Toxic in Flint, Michigan”, by Sara Ganim and Linh Tran, the write about how water became infected with lead in Flint, Michigan. In 2014, the city of Flint, Michigan, decided to cut the water supply of the city from Lake Huron to The Flint River. The city did this in order for the state to build a new supply line from the lake. When the water started coming in from the river, residents reported that it looked brown. It was discovered that the state DEQ…

Gas Line Repair Fort Worth A natural gas emergency always requires a qualified, licensed, professional plumber. Never attempt gas line repair in Fort Worth yourself. If you suspect a gas leak, you should always call 911. A rotten egg, sulfur-like odor is added to natural gas to help people identify gas leaks. When you smell this odor, leave the building, and call 911 immediately once you are a safe distance away. When the emergency is over, Benjamin Franklin Plumbing can repair the problem, and…

Hydraulic fracturing, also know as “fracking” is something you may not have heard of in Canada or Niagara to be precise although in the states this is more popular. Fracking is the process of drilling into the earth before shooting a high pressure water mixture into the hole to crack the rock which releases natural gases for gas companies to collect. This process is very bad for the environment and needs to be looked after. Fracking leads to air pollution, water contamination and seismic…

aridity of the environment as a reason not to have to artificially mummify. The external wrappings around the corpses were held tight with a combination of salty seawater and sun exposure (Guillén 2004). This provided an extra layer of covering for protection from the elements. Tello also hypothesized that the body cavities were eviscerated and the extremities were…

The ICS (Incident Command System) originally named Field Command Operations System, was a concept formed in 1968 at a meeting called Fire of Chiefs in Phoenix, Arizona. The program was primarily built to model the management hierarchy of the United States Navy used mainly for fighting wild fires in California and Arizona during the 1970’s. ICS was fully developed during suppression efforts of California’s catastrophic wild fire disaster that caused millions of dollars in damage which also…

the safety of glyphosate, the weed killer’s main ingredient. Glyphosate has been linked to the development non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL). Court cases alleging the connection unsealed documents showing collusion between Monsanto and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officials to kill a review of the ingredient and evidence the company ghost wrote research on the weed killer’s safety that was later attributed to academics. The more than 45 lawsuits consolidated as part of multidistrict…

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…