Clean Air Act

In the story “Eleven” by Sandra Cisneros, Rachel, the main character, depicts an event on her eleventh birthday that strongly affected her. The story begins by explaining Rachel’s perspective and her feelings on birthdays. It’s her eleventh birthday, but she feels as if she’s still ten years old. She expected to wake up and feel eleven years old, but everything was just like the day before and nothing had really changed. Rachel says that when we all do or say something unintelligent, that’s the…

My Response on Eleven In the literary text “Eleven” by Sandra Cisseros, the author expresses all of the different feelings about being eleven years older that the character Rachel is experiencing as she describes her eleventh birthday. Through the text Cisseros appeals to the emotion of the audience, creates imagery, and applies details from home life to characterize Rachel. Today is Rachel’s eleventh birthday, yet she doesn’t quite feel eleven. At least least, “Not right away. It takes a few…

important this test will be in determining their future. The question that haunts many students entering the final years of their high school career is, “Will this score keep me from or help me get into the college I want?” Many say that the SAT and ACT scores are still a major deciding factor for getting accepted into college, but others say that this isn’t the case.…

Air Pollution Policy and Controversy Rachel Carson boldly warned the American people in 1962 that if the United States continued its agricultural and industrial practices, songbirds would cease to exist. Losing an important part of the ecological food chain would have repercussions, possibly worse than we could imagine. While literature like Silent Spring helped bring attention to environmental concerns in the mid to late 1900s, several fatal disasters struck a stronger chord. Smog in…

What do you know of Air pollution? Of its effects? How it starts? Air pollution is known by everyone, though very few know of the problems it causes for both our environment and us. Both the environment and we are not the only ones affected the environment changes cause what is known as acid rain and this rain damages all the creations that humanity has made over the centuries. Multiple people know of air pollution and the problems it causes such as problems concerning the body, the changes to…

pollution through the Clean Air Act, however, President Bush and his EPA disavowed its obligation to address climate pollution. They stated how “dangerous climate pollutions emitted into the air … didn’t qualify as ‘air pollutant[s]’” (Levitan). In 2007, the Supreme Court rejected the EPA’s claim, ruling that “carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases qualified as air pollutants” (Levitan). From then on, it was the EPA’s responsibility to address climate pollution in the Clean Air…

reducing air pollution in the United States. Politicians can create and enforce laws that people must follow, therefore guaranteeing a difference. However, it takes both political and societal reactions to actually make a difference, politicioans may make laws and set regulations but it is up to society to follow them in order to make a difference. (So in my opinion both political and societal reactions go hand in hand and one could not make a difference without the other.) The Clean Air Act…

Discussion/Current Research In 1970, Congress created the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and passed the Clean Air Act. This gave the federal government ability to clean up air pollution in the United States of America3. The EPA and states, tribes, local governments, industry, and environmental groups have worked to establish a variety of programs to reduce air pollution levels across America3. Under the Act, EPA and states set emissions limits for motor vehicles and industrial…

increases. Different acts and laws have been passed to try and reduce the pollution already created. Humans have a delicate balance with our environment; it is our responsibility to do what we can in order to protect our world. In his article “Let’s Modernize Our Pollution Laws,” Gregg Easterbrook argues the importance of keeping population laws up-to-date. However, the need of amending these laws is not specified nor is the inclusion of what is wrong with the current acts and laws present…

Pollution is causing bad damage to the earth for many reasons. It has been a big problem ever since it started. There are many types of pollution problems such as air pollution, water pollution, soil pollution, noise pollution, light pollution, thermal pollution, and radioactive pollution. Air pollution is…