Essays Tagged: "United States Environmental Protection Agency"
Decomposition of Organic Material.
With Bacteria", Aug. 6, URL:http://www.ask.com/main/metaAnswer.asp?t=ai&s=a&MetaEngine=..."United States Environmental protection Agency, Nov. 18, 2002, URL:http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/osw/publicat.htm
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology
Green Computing.
es to counter this wasting.One such program to counter the problem is Energy Star, developed by the United States Department of Energy and the United States Environmental Protection Agency. This progr ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science
The Conflict Perspective in Sociology
The conflict perspective is very apparent in modern day issues affecting the environment. Environmental groups, both government and non-government based like The Sierra Club and the EPA (Env ... l industries. The industries want their right to manufacture products from natural resources, while environmental groups want to protect and preserve these limited natural resources. For example, cons ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology
Acid Rain
Since plant food will decrease, populations higher up in the food chain will decrease with it. The United States Environmental Protection Agency states that "harm to people from acid rain is not dire ... nd cause the decrease in visibility, and they are the main cause of "poor visibility in the eastern United States" (United States Environmental Protection Agency). According Patel, the effect of acid ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences
Case Analysis of Chevron U.S.A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., et al.
existing air quality.III. FACTSThe Clean Air Act Amendments of 1977 impose certain requirements on States that have not achieved the national air quality standards established by the Environment Prot ... States that could not reach the requirement of the Clean Air Act there were known as Nonattainment States. The nonattainment States were issued permit by the EPA regulating new or modify major statio ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays
Australia NSW - Air Quality - Case Study: Botany Bay
ery in Kurnell. This has been an area of great concern to residents of the area, industrialists and environmentalists.Research Action PlanThe aim of my investigation was to find information on the rea ... boundaries of the refinery. This brought new and heightened response from the public, residents and environmentalists.Residents perceived that this was an obvious detriment to their suburb. The presen ...
Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays
Cigarette Smoking
e American Cancer Society estimates that cigarettes are responsible for about 419,000 deaths in the united states each year. The largest killing cancer is Lung Cancer, which accounts for 30% of all U. ... s the effect of smoke in the atmosphere and the environment and how it affects the non-smokers. The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates that exposure to ETS, which contains a ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Drugs
Business problems, situations, and opprotunities that are ethical issues
1. Environmental Hazards:The pollutants that business industry dumps into the environment are more than ... ates (cheap labor) to handle the recycling of computers component parts. Not only is Dell violating environmental laws and contributing to improper disposal of computers that contain high contents of ... rrell, Fraedrich, Ferrell, 2005). The responsibility of enforcing these laws is entrusted to (EPA), Environmental Protection Agency. Even businesses of today, continue to behave in total unethically m ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers
Air Pollution
ice caps are slowly depleting, and that is raising the levels of the oceans.In the past years, the United States Government put the Clean Air Act into affect. The Clean Air Act says that the air is t ... nmental Protection Agency) is enforcing this law very strictly for refineries and power plants. The United States produces 35% of the world's green house gasses. Russia is the worlds second larges pro ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Atmospheric Sciences
Ashland Oil Inc.: Trouble at Floreffe
m for preventing, preparing for, and responding to oil spills that occur in navigable waters of the United States.In 1973, EPA issued the Oil Pollution Prevention regulation (codified at 40 CFR Part 1 ... 2) could reasonably be expected to discharge oil in harmful quantities into navigable waters of the United States.This regulation requires each owner or operator of a regulated facility to prepare a s ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies
The Danger Of Smoking
ill die early from smoking related diseases. If that is not enough, one in every five deaths in the United States is caused because of this fatal habit. Fifty million Americans smoke including one in ... extremely disturbing considering that you have to be eighteen years old to purchase tobacco in the United States. Writing about this subject strikes ever too closely to home for I am an ex-smoker mys ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
Business action plan - NREL
el costs by one-third (Environmental Defense, 2007)As you can see, even the large corporations like United Parcel Service and Federal Express see the benefits to going green. However, operating hybrid ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies > Automotive Companies
1.) Effects of mobile sources on global warming, the environment
ehicle engines. Mobile sources are responsible for more then half of nitrogen oxide emission in the United States. Nitrogen oxides can travel long distances, so that non-urban areas can also be highly ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science
Adding E85 (Ethanol Based) Fuel Vehicles is Advant
pany.Henry Ford designed the first ethanol cars in the 1880?s to run on ethanol or gasoline. In the United States, ethanol?blended gasoline accounts for more than 10 percent of the total gasoline purc ... g stations is a major obstacle. Currently, there are almost 500 out of 180,000 fuel stations in the United States that offer E85, which does not seem very suitable for people who rent vehicles mostly ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science
Actual Sources of Water Pollution
most 100,000 times." (Priesnitz, 2001, p1)Cruise ships are now going to have to meet compliance and environmental laws. "Royal Caribbean Cruise Line was convicted on twenty-one felony counts for dumpi ... reated a three-year program placing independent observers on board ships to monitor compliance with environmental laws. (O'Rourke, 2004)Another major cause of water pollution is run-off. Farming cause ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Current Issues
Americas' Prescription Drug Crisis
presence of another prison, a hospital, and nursing homes in the same general area, Nurse Peterson states, So what are all these facilities doing if were throwing away about 700 to 1,000 ... for today because we dont really know what the hell to do with the stuff. A select few states have passed legislation to make it easier for health care organizations to be able to donate ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues
Business Regulation Plan
ronmental Protection Agency (EPA). Their mission is "to protect human health and the environment." (United States Environmental Protection Agency [EPA], n.d.)Alumina and all businesses are under legal ... r.org/Larson, A. (2003). Negligence and Tort Law. ExpertLaw. Retrieved from http://www.expertlaw.comUnited States Environmental Protection Agency (n.d.). About EPA. Retrieved February 22, 2009, from h ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Cases
Social Responsibilities in The Corporate Sector
vement with the corporation. (Kaliski, 2001) For instance if a company is proactive and follows the United States Environmental Protection Agency guidelines for admissions on dangerous pollutants ... tell their CSR stories.Top 100 World EconomiesGDP (World Bank)Rank Company/Country[millionS, USD]1 United States 13,201,8192 Japan 4,340,1333 Germany 2,906,6814 People's Republic of China 2,668,0715 ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers
Business Regulation Simulation
ures.Alumina is a company that produces aluminum products, and as all companies that operate in the United States is regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The EPA's mission is "to pr ... tion.ReferencesEPA - Negligence and Tort Law. Retrieved August 23, 2009from http://www.expertlaw.comUnited States Environmental Protection Agency (n.d.).Jennings - Defense against Defamation. Retrieve ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays
Water Resource Plan. Grade is 100
The issue of freshwater pollution is a serious level of concern. The Environmental Protection Agency has projected that water pollution will be as high in 2025 as it was ... routine can provide the means for success in these times of limited resources.ReferencesVisualizing Environmental Science (3rd ed.) (Berg, Hager, & Hassenzahl) Chapter 10Pielou, E.C. (1998). Fresh ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science