Ohio power plants put out more pollution than other states with twice as many plants. ... What exactly are the legal limits on pollution in Ohio? ... In 1999 Cinergy Corp. agreed to pay a $1.4 billion dollar pollution settlement. Most of the estimated $1.4 billion will be spent on environmental improvements at Cinergy plants in Indiana and Ohio. ... With the new legislation that would allow older power plants to continue upgrading their facilities without upgrading their pollution controls, pollution levels may never slow down. ...

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Pollution comes in many forms; air, water, soil, noise, radioactive, thermal, light and visual pollution. ... There are many forms of water pollution; biological pollution, oxygen, nutrients and chemical. ... Most nations additionally have their own water pollution laws. ... With the 1990 Clean Air Act, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) started a questionable carbon exchanging framework in which tradable rights to transmit a detailed level of carbon are allowed to polluters. ... The condition of California's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) ...

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Environmental activism significantly increased during the 60's on the individual level too. ... Environmental landmarks in the form of legislation were nearly commonplace between 1960 and 1975. ... Another large step towards environmental protection that occurred between 1975 and 1995 is the formation of the Environmental Protection Agency. It oversaw many new environmental laws and continues to do so today. ... Near the end of the 80's the issue of air pollution began to rise to the forefront. ...

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The United States is the world's largest producer and consumer of environmental protection technologies worldwide (EPA). ... In 1965 in the United States implemented the Motor Vehicle Air Pollution Control Act. ... We need the clean air act because we need to do something about the effects pollution has on our environment. ... Environmental damage form air pollution is reduced, making our cities more viable. ... I strongly agree with the efforts of the environmental protection agency. ...

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Resource protection, under environmental law, helps to maintain the environmental balance of public resources. ... Because it was such a major environmental issue, putting the safety of citizens at risk, it became an issue of federal concern. The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) created the Superfund for environmental cleanup. ... It is the principal federal statute protecting navigable waters and adjoining shorelines from pollution, and has formed the foundation for regulations detailing specific requirements for pollution prevention and respon...

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The ESI was developed for 142 countries to measure the overall progress towards environmental sustainability. ... The index allows for systematic and quantitative comparisons of environmental progress across nations. ... Finland has ranked at the top of the index because of the country's success in minimizing air and water pollution and comparatively low level of greenhouse gas emissions. ... At the same time the U.S. is a world leader in controlling water pollution. ... The index shows that a nation's economic status does not necessarily predict its environmental success. ...

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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) were created in 1970. ... These acts are key laws that help protect our ocean from pollution, over fishing, endangerment and many more issues. ... Our actions such as egg collecting, hunting for sea turtle meat or shells, accidental capture in fishing nets, damage and loss of important habitat, and marine pollution have an effect that makes sea turtles more vulnerable to extinction. ... Pollution from the main land also has a big impact on the ocean. ...

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Around this time, the Environmental Defense Fund, also known as the EDF, was coming up with way of their own to approach the current problems with pollution, and they came up with the conclusion that people hate being told what to do, and they wanted to give people a chance to turn a profit. ... The president of EDF called Bush's White House counsel, Boyden Gray, suggesting that the best way for Bush to become the "environmental president" was to fix the acid rain problem, and to do that, by using the new tool of emissions trading. ... Many staffers from the Environmental Prote...

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In 1997, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) decided that it was their time to take action against the two stroke. ... Banning two strokes is the wrong choice on the battle against pollution. Two stroke motorcycles account for very little, if any pollution that is in the atmosphere. ...

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We know that the burning of fossil causes many pollution problems such as: the release of CO2, NOx and SO2. ... The efficiency standard would not be a probable pollution standard since cost to communities surrounding fracking operations is higher than its benefits. ... I have noticed that many fracking operations have been in run down or poor communities which could amount to environmental racism. ... Since 2005, the EPA has had no authority to prosecute the possible pollution of hydraulic fracturing operations under the Safe Drinking Water Act; these companies currently enjoy the Haiburton Lo...

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The causes of our various environment-health problems are numerous and include pollution from transport, agricultural activities, industrial processes, domestic waste matter and waste management. The scientific researches, conducted over centuries, show that the pollution of the atmosphere reached its top. ... Their sources of pollution are thermal power stations, which together with smoke, throw out sulphurous and carbonic gas in the air. ... In the atmosphere, aerosol pollution is perceived as smoke, fog, haze or fumes. ... The manufacture of cement and other building materials is also a ...

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They called this law the Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA), and it was nicknamed the Superfund Law (Daniels). ... Awareness of these toxic waste problems lead to the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency, which sets the levels which toxic substances can be released into the environment. ... The law was first enacted in December of 1980 and imposed a tax on the chemical and petroleum industries that were the main sources of toxic pollution at the time; this tax would go towards cleaning up the contaminated sites. ...

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