Environmental Awareness Essay

HINKLEY, CARLIFORNIA NEWS FORUM 01 August 1993 WATER CONTAMINATION IN HINKLEY I am Erin Brokovich; I am a twice-divorced mother of three young children aged between 9 months to 8 years old. I believe the $28 billion company Pacific Gas and Electric has poisoned the water supply of Hinkley, California with hexavalent chromium. In 18 months, I hope with the help of 634 plaintiffs and Masry law firm to sue PG&E for 333 million dollars for the water contamination in Hinkley. PG&E is a $28…

oil extraction sites. The “Clean Water Act”, an act to ensure that bodies of water are not infected by chemicals and remain in a stable state that is not harmful wildlife, or plants that rely on these bodies of water. Organizations like the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) create the guidelines to ensure that the resources that make up the environment continues to replenish resources that are essential to the health of ecosystems. This effort by the EPA has forced major fracking cities to…

taken as environmental problems and the most important ecological problem is the air pollution. This issue has a long history and is impacting on the health of the individuals since 500 BC. Various human activities of that time have emerged and evolved with the passage of time and thus extended environmental issues. Air pollution is one of the major ecological problems. Environmental problems were first discovered at the time of ancient Athens and Rome when they complaint about environmental…

Throughout the movie, the Environmental Protection Agency places a large dome over the town of Springfield in response to people polluting the town's lake with hazardous and contaminated substances. Even though it was over exaggerated to place a dome over an entire town and cutting them off from society. The EPA felt it was justified for them to take similar actions, but not to the degree that would end up having a town isolated. Placing the dome represents and portrays how much power the EPA…

I chose the Pensacola Naval Air Station, Pensacola Florida because that is the site in which the majority of my family lives and works on. This station is home of Aviation Schools, Air Technical Training, Marine Aviation Training, and the Blue Angels. This station was placed on the National Priorities List in 1989 due to the contaminated surface and ground water, soil and sediments. This contamination dates back to before World War 2 where there weren’t any regulatory guidance on dumping waste…

According to the EPA of United States Environmental Protection Agency, a pesticide is “any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling, or mitigating any pest. Pests can be insects, mice and other animals, unwanted plants (weeds), fungi, or microorganisms like…

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…

Environmental protection agency (EPA) respond heavily to public health issue and to environmental issues. Like many agency decisions, the EPA's decision centered on cost-benefit analysis, attempting to determine the appropriate economic burden necessary to achieve an adequate level of safety, and whether this burden was reasonable (Wecker, 1994). Reserve Mining v. EPA and Corrosion Proof Fittings v. EPA cases focused mainly on regulating a use of asbestos. This essay will summarize the trail…

Dofasco Acid STSE 1. Summarize this article in your own words. Include all the main points. (4) On September 7, a burst pipe at ArcelorMittal Dofasco sprayed hydrochloric acid mist through the Crown Point neighbourhood, which runs south of the plant. The Hamilton’s public health department is gathering information on this incident and its impact on the neighbourhood from the Ministry of Environment and ArcelorMittal. Evidence of the leak was witnessed across Crown Point neighbourhood. Residents…

John Cosgrove Mrs. Gallos 19, April 2017 Research Paper EPA REGULATIONS Have you ever been watching tv or the news and you heard about the EPA? Have you ever hear about Greenhouse emissions and other pollutants? What is the EPA? Well, I’m here to tell you a little about the EPA and some of the problems with the regulations that Americans are facing every second of their daily life. EPA stands for Environmetal Protection Agency, Which they help the Environment but tthey hurt many Americans.…