Many universities and environmental agencies are hard at work each day trying to figure out cleaner, safer methods of maintaining a healthy atmosphere. ... There are several main types of pollution and well-known effects of pollution which are commonly discussed. ... This type of pollution is sometimes referred to as "black carbon" pollution. ... At the United Nations, the Atmosphere Management Program carries out world wide environmental projects. (UNEP) In the United States, the primary federal agency is the Environmental Protection Agency. ...

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Alar: The World's Greatest Environmental Dangers Are Dung Smoke and Dirty Water." ... Lets take a closer look into the environmental dangers that are occurring in this present day. ... We can start with getting educated about what pollution is and how it is caused. ... Another Environmental issue that needs to be dealt with is what to do about water pollution. Water pollution is a major problem for again undeveloped counties. ...

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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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This chemical pollution can be directly accredited to dumping made by flight line aircraft maintainers. ... Based on first hand flight line studies For each time intentional improper disposal of fuel is recorded by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), there is a $10,000 fine for the Air Force (U.S. ... Farmers, fishermen, tourism, and the local wildlife that depend on the Chesapeake Bay are suffering extreme consequences each year due to the environmental impact of such dumping (Schetteler, Solomon, Valent & Huddle 111). ... However, these bottom dwelling creatures are extremely s...

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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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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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The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) was approved December 11, 1980. ... In 1982, the National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan (NCP) were included in Superfund. ... Fist, it required Superfund actions to consider the standards and requirements found in other State and Federal environmental laws and regulations. ... To clean up this area the actions taken were as follows: dissolving the buried copperas waste in place and treating the generated leachate aboveground; stabilizing other areas of the site by implementing drainage...

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