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  • State's Smog
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    This past summer, a team of scientists in California assembled to study the state's famous smog problem. Armed with $6 million in federal and state funds, the researchers gathered their equipment -- dozens of weather balloons, an array of small airplanes, smog meters and lasers. While they waited for the smog to show up, California enjoyed one of its clearest summers ever. During the study period, from June 15 to October 15, there was only one day -- July 4 -- when the air over Los Angeles was d...
  • Effect Of Air Pollution On Human Health
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    (name, title) Executive Summary An evaluation of the implications of environmental air pollution on human life and the macro, meso and micro level steps being taken to change the current status of air pollution is the purpose of this site. The method of analysis used involved researching the actual hazards of air pollution on humans, what solutions government agencies have proposed / implemented (macro), what steps cities across the United States have taken (meso) and how you (micro) can take a ...
  • Air Pollution In Lebanon
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    Agriculture Atmosphere Biodiversity Desertification and Drought Energy Forests Freshwater Land Management Mountains Oceans and Coastal Areas Toxic Chemicals Waste and Hazardous Materials AGRICULTURE Decision-Making: Coordinating Bodies The Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) and The Rural Development and Natural Wealth Directorate are most responsible for agriculture. National and International NGOs and UN organizations are also active. Programmes and Projects In terms of rural development, MoA is imp...
  • Dutch Gap Power Plant Like Many Coal
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    What's Power Worth? When we think about air pollution and its sources we generally call to mind the things we see and smell daily. We recall the stench of diesel fumes, the plumes of automobile exhaust, or maybe the belching smoke from factories. Instead of these common culprits, maybe we should instead think about the light switch, the computer, the television, or maybe our air conditioners. We use these items everyday without a thought to the possible ramifications. These familiar household it...
  • Economics Of The Clean Air Act Air
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    The Economics of The Clean Air Act Air is a part of all of our lives. Without clean air, nothing we know of can exist. The debate over clean air, it's regulations, their teammates and opposition, and the economic factors coming into play into this ever-more recognizable problem is a widespread and ever more controversial one. Like along countdown to eventual disaster, the pollution effecting our world has no doubt made increasingly more impact on our daily lives, and has increased the intensity ...
  • Help In The Making Of Air Pollution
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    Air Pollution in Ontario Air pollution is a major topic in our society it is a subject to be taken seriously because it causes many problems in our environment causing it to be very unhealthy for our living lifestyle. Air pollution is described as the accumulation of something where it is not wanted and the introduction of something into the environment that adversely affects the environment or the usefulness of it's components. Many different types of pollutants are produced in our air that we ...
  • Air And Water Pollution
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    There are approximately 6 billion people on our planet now and by 2050 that number is expected to jump to 9 billion people. (web) Picture yourself driving down a crowded street or stuck in a traffic jam, have you ever wondered how it is possible for that many people to live all on the same planet. I have had those thoughts several times and believe that overpopulation is one of the biggest problems in the world today. Overpopulation has become a major crisis in the twenty-first century and it's ...
  • Water Pollution
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    ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION Efforts to improve the standard of living for humans -- through the control of nature and the development of new products -- have also resulted in the pollution, or contamination, of the environment. Much of the world's air, water, and land is now partially poisoned by chemical wastes. Some places have become uninhabitable. This pollution exposes people all around the globe to new risks from disease. Many species of plants and animals have become endangered or are now ext...
  • Restriction On Equipment Within Factories And Businesses
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    Factory and business owners have the ability to prevent air pollution. The government should take action, requiring equipment to cut down on hydrocarbons in the atmosphere. The little spent regulating equipment used in factories can go a long way saving billions on health problems and other related issues. Background Over 150 million people in the United States live in areas where the Environmental Protection Agency considers the air to be unhealthy. Air pollution is the presence in the atmosphe...
  • Air Pollution
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    A Wonderful Life (maybe) Remember when life was grand You could go outside, smell the fresh air, walk barefoot without working about something diseased finding its way into your foot. Yes, it used to be a wonderful life. Just think if you were a squirrel living in a hundred year old oak tree. You work all fall to prepare for winter, then from out of no where a machine (youre foreign to) knocks down your home. You just lost your home and a hundred year old tree lost its life for a parking lot. Th...
  • Form Of Air Pollution
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    ar 11 Project - Humans and the Environment 1 - Air Pollution: A) This is the contamination of the atmosphere by gaseous, liquid, or solid wastes or by-products that can endanger human health and the health and welfare of plants and animals, or can attack materials, reduce visibility, or produce undesirable odours. Among air pollutants emitted by natural sources, only the radioactive gas radon is recognised as a major health threat. A by-product of the radioactive decay of uranium minerals in cer...
  • Damage Functions From Airborne Residuals Air Pollution
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    Damage Functions from Airborne Residuals Air pollution is a growing concern that has gained an increasing level of attention by both scientists and legislators. This need to understand the degree of damages resulting from airborne residuals has sparked many projects to determine how these residuals are affecting us, and the cost that they bear to both our economy and our health. Once this information has been found, only then can we look at ways to estimate the benefit of pollution abatement. Me...
  • Important Factors In The Air Pollution Issue
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    People certainly seem to be very absorbed in living life well, entirely absent-minded towards our natural environments deterioration. This subject should have more of an outstanding effect on them considering pollution is a major issue in our lives. As industrialization progresses, the balance of our ecosystem is disrupted through different contaminants in the air. The majority of these pollutants arise from smoke stacks, refineries, big trucks, and buses. These factors represent two-thirds of t...
  • Water Pollution
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    Justin Greenwood May 15, 2001 Thinking Like a Mountain Environmental Issues Project The Destruction of Our Fragile Planet and the Possibility of Reform It is widely accepted that humans have been a major cause of environmental problems since we began creating our cities and especially since the Industrial Revolution of the 20th century. All aspects of the Earth have been affected by humans' desire to conquer and dominate the planet. Our impact has gone beyond pollution to altering the functionin...
  • Waste And Pollution
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    Did you know that we have a BIG problem in our world? The problem is that there is too much waste being produced by humans. Waste is left over material like paper, lunch bags, cans, bottles, plastic bags, wood and metal. Waste is stuff we throw into the garbage because we do not want to use it no more. It's stinky and filling up the landfill sites. We are littering and polluting the land, water and the air we breathe. It's just too easy to throw papers and other stuff you don't need on the groun...
  • Air Pollution And Every Country
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    Today the planet earth is suffering from numerous pollutions. Pollutions that could have been prevented treated and even solved with just a little acknowledgement from those who have caused and nurtured these problems. Every species has to consume some kind of energy in some way. So naturally the environment is the key to this progression that keeps every species satisfied. Now in reality there is only one species that causes pollution due to a number of things; greed, pleasure, satisfaction, en...
  • Houston Chronicle 1 May 1999
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    In Bill Dawson's December 9th article in the Houston Chronicle, he discusses several possible solutions to the smog problem here in Houston. One solution under consideration by the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission (TNRCC) is a driving restriction calling for a 25% reduction in "vehicle miles traveled". Although a specific method has not yet been adopted, a possible interpretation could mean a ban on vehicle use every fourth day. While this possible solution is ethically good, it is...
  • Industrial Polluted Water
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    . MAN... ENVIRONMENT... POLLUTION Y. PRAS ANNA KUMAR Department of Chemistry, College of Engineering, GIT AM, Visakhapatnam! V 530 045 Andhra Pradesh, India. Man is everywhere surrounded by a world of non-living materials and forces and a world of living forms that of plants and animals! V called the Biosphere. These two together constitute the natural environment. At the beginning somehow or other, man could make adaptations to it. Gradually there were sociological, cultural, scientific and tec...
  • Terrorist Attack On September 11
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    The three most significant problems we face as a nation in the next fifty years are pollution, gun control, and terrorism. Pollution Much of the world's air, water, and land is now partially poisoned by chemical wastes. Some places have become uninhabitable. This pollution exposes people all around the United States to new risks from disease. Many species of plants and animals have become endangered or are now extinct. As a result of these developments, our government has passed laws to limit or...
  • More Common Form Of Toxic Air Pollution
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    "Air Pollution, addition of harmful substances to the atmosphere resulting in damage to the environment, human health, and quality of life. ' (Encarta Air Pollution) "Damage' may be quite an understatement on this topic. I believe that mass extinction might be more than damaging to the quality of life. I seem to be "jumping the gun' here but as you will see air pollution is a very deadly environmental concern. In the United States alone, air pollution has been a serious environmental and public ...

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