This chemical pollution can be directly accredited to dumping made by flight line aircraft maintainers. ... At Langley Air Force Base illegal dumpings persists on a near daily basis. ... The study does not reflect the views of the Air Force. ... Luckily, for the Air Force, the EPA's surveillance of this matter is at a minimum. ... However, these bottom dwelling creatures are extremely susceptible to pollution, over harvesting, and disease. ...

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We should be able to enjoy these luxuries without the backstab of the repulsive air pollution." Lowering economic vulnerability id a goal in our society, this will be achieved by reducing our air pollution.... Public transportation may give of bad gases into the air but not as much pollution is produced as the private transportation. ... (Source 2) these quotes show that less fuel means less air pollution. ... Without changes we might be living in a world full of hazy air pollution and extremely high gas prices. ...

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Pennsylvania had racked up a bill of $5 billion in order to clean the pollution from the mines. ... Fracking has also been a source of local air pollution. There have been incidents, like the one in Texas, where the benzene concentration in the air reaches an extremely dangerous level that could cause cancer from constant exposure ("Should Fracking Stop?... The air emissions from the drills, trucks, and other machinery coming in and out of fracking zones have also increased the ground level ozone. Colorado is one such case where they had not experienced major air pollution until the use o...

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More recently, "biomass fired steam power has been used to generate electricity [which] can have numerous environmental and air-quality advantages over burning fossil fuels" (How Biomass Energy Works"). ... The very nature of biomass energy requires that it be burned and even if the organic material is low-carbon, it will still emit some pollution and carbon emissions. ... Instead, researchers have recently developed a power cell that uses magnesium as a one of the main components called the "Magnesium Air Fuel Cell,"" it is essentially a "magnesium based version of the lithium ion rechargeabl...

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As a result of the equipment and methods used to extract the oil, high levels of pollution are released into the atmosphere, disturbing nearby ecosystems. ... In addition to polluting the surrounding water, offshore drilling practices also release harmful substances into the air. ... It has been estimated that "A single offshore rig emits the same quantity of air pollution as 7000 cars driving 50 miles per day." ...

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Other exemptions are also present in the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act. ... Those in favor of fracking realize that there is pollution associated with it. With the pollution concern, there are those that are considering alternatives such as a waterless fracking method. ...

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Since the passage of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, the petroleum industry has invested nearly $17 billion in oil spill prevention and response. ... Coast Guard's Office of Investigations, states in a letter for the Pollution Incident Compendium: 1973-1997: "By nearly every measure, the volume of spills in U.S. waters has been on a steady downward trend since 1973." ... It increases the oil's exposure to sunlight and air, thus enhancing the rate and effect of other weathering processes. ...

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And finally, the amount of pollution that these actions, and even many of the actions of everyday citizens such as you and I, are quite literally killing the Earth. ... And finally, these processes, along with those of factories, and even many of our own personal daily activities release many harmful chemicals into the air. ... We are condemning future generations of homo sapiens to an undesirable fate of pollution, energy scarcities, and a world that quite frankly, I would not wish to live in. ...

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These effects are not limited to only Canada's environments; the oil sands carbon emissions are polluting air all over the globe and contributing to global warming (tar sands and climate change n.pag). The smoke stacks used in the factories to get rid of carbon fumes have completely overtaken the horizon in Northeastern Alberta and polluted the air; proof of this is the increasing amounts of acid rain all over Canada and other continents. ... Three new technologies have been invented in the last two decades, one of which clears up a large piece of the environmental pollution. ...

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However, through the production of these PCBs, they entered into the atmosphere though the air, soil, accidental spills, disposal, and use in electrical equipment. ... Here are some of the protection measures being taken, as quoted from EPA's oil spill protection website, (http://www.epa.gov/region09/waste/sfund/oilpp/oil.html) "EPA's Spill Prevention Countermeasure and Control plan (40 CFR 112.7), Facility Response Plan (40 CFR 112.20), and Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (OPA '90)". ...

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