...New Jersey is recognized for getting their energy from coal-fired power plants. However, this does not only pollute the air that New Jersey residents are breathing in, but also pollutes the earth’s surface in general by making vegetables and fruits harder to grow in the areas that they are built in. Along with damaging the environment by the method that New Jersey gets their energy from, the state has not taken much time or energy to fix this specific problem. Power companies in New Jersey have been known for turning off their “pollution control” equipment, a legal practice that saves the power company more money, however, it also causes massive amounts of air pollution in the surrounding areas. New Jersey over the past decade had many high ozone days: days where the ozone layer is a toxin its self. Ozone is a gas made up of three oxygen atoms, which eventually end up as an ozone layer. The ozone layer is supposed to protect the planets surface from the suns harmful rays. These high ozone days are extremely brutal for children, the elderly, and people who have asthma. If the state of New Jersey...
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...Toxicology Report: Mercury Carmen Polat Centenary College BIO110 - Principles of Environmental Science Professor Debra DeAngelis April 7th, 2016 Every day in our lives we encounter numerous toxins. While some can be avoided, others cannot. Toxins are abundant in our environment, and there is no way to escape all of them. Some of them come from spills or accidents, some from permitted pollution, and others from everyday activities that build up toxins in the environment. This paper examines how mercury contamination, found here in New Jersey, affects the people, animals, and environment of New Jersey. Mercury is a highly toxic metal element, labeled with the atomic symbol Hg. It was known to humans thousands of years ago, and is the only metal that can be found in liquid form at room temperature (Live Science, 2016). While beautiful to look at, it is best to avoid touching it, since it is extremely toxic even in very small doses. Mercury damages the immune system, nervous system, reproductive system, and alters genetic and enzyme systems, as well as causing deformities and birth defects (USGS, 2009). It has also been found to cause autoimmune problems, and high exposures will lead to death through multi-organ failure (Azevedo, 2012). This occurs not only in humans, but also in fish and other animals that are exposed to the element. It can enter the body through wounds, inhalation, and ingestion (Live Science, 2016). One of the largest problems with mercury is that...
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...to a New Jersey database, pollution is the dumping of man made products into the environment (Conserve Wildlife Foundation of New Jersey). Countries all over the world have made numerous laws and regulations to combat pollution but the good done by such regulations has not been noticeable. Citizens habitually pollute regardless of the possible fines. If people enjoy a clean home, then why should they treat the ecosystem like their personal garbage can? Animals need a clean home; the environment is their home; therefore we should keep the environment clean. These organisms play an important part of daily living and dumping trash and harsh chemicals onto their home will either force them to leave or stay and die. Conservationists, desperate to save the lives of the animals and the environment, have discussed the subject of pollution’s negative on all...
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...Air Pollution Pollutants in our air today are very serious environmental problem. Besides other pollutions such as water, sound and land, air pollution affects us the most as we inhale and exhale them every single seconds. As living in an industrial era, we have familiar with terms such as smog, lead, ozone, and carbon monoxide. The news, newspaper and media have shown a lot of consequences of these pollutants that we have to face nowadays such as the haze. More and more regulations have been established and implemented to minimize the air pollutions such as vehicle emissions testing standards and pollutant emitting facilities standards. However, it seems that all of these are not working as the air pollutions worsen. Thus, the causes need to be researched and identified to find for the solutions of combatting air pollution that affects us the most. According to Dr. Laurent Hodges in her book Environmental Pollution Second Edition (1997), there are a number of different causes of air pollution. Firstly, particulate matter that consists of solid and liquid aerosols which suspended in the atmosphere is one of the major cause. It comes from the burning of coal in industrial processes. These atmospheric particles will scatter and absorb sunlight then reduces visibility. Secondly, sulphur oxides that being produced when coal is burning and during industrial processes can damage materials, vegetation, and human respiratory system as it is acidic. Sulphur oxides, even in a small...
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...Air Pollution CaTina Massey Environmental Science November 12, 2011 Instructor: Professor Mahoney AIR POLLUTION Air pollution is the biggest problem we as Americans face today. The problem arose during the industrial revolution and has just gotten worse since then. However, the industrial revolution brought many great changes to the world; better transportation, cheaper merchandise, and has made our life better. In the beginning of the industrial revolution, the problem of pollution was not something that people paid attention too. As the science involved, people began to realize the problem with pollution. Many different sources cause air pollution. Automobiles that are burning gasoline produce very harmful gases and incineration of products. Factories produce millions of particles that are carried off into the air. Gaseous by-products produced by chemical plants release these toxic gases when their concentration is at a high enough level. As the world has become more industrialized, the increased amount of air pollution and new health hazards have developed. Air pollution can arise from different sources that we cannot control. For example, forest fires, dust storms, and volcanoes. One of the sources of air pollution is acid rain. Raindrops that are combined with polluted air create acid rain. Acid rain mainly causes the erosion of buildings, destruction of crops, and many other assets. Global warming is also caused by acid rain. Many scientists...
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...Parents don’t give it a second thought in sending their kids off to school. Schools are supposed to be the safest places for children to go, but secretly as more research is being uncovered, they are potentially danger zones. Even teachers are not aware of this fact, but just because it isn’t seen, don’t mean it’s not there. Toxic pollution has plagued U.S. public schools for a long time, and scientists warned that the exposure of harmful toxins is linked to multiple brain-related problems in children. Schools are supposed to be safe environments for children, and yet new data has come out to say that the pollutants being exposed to schools can seriously impact children’s health. There is an unfortunate link between toxic pollution and school...
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...Communicable disease outbreak - HAT Task 3 Analyze the selected communicable disease outbreak: SARS Disease overview Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is a viral respiratory illness caused by a coronavirus, called SARS-associated coronavirus (SARS-CoV). According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the illness begins with a high fever (greater than 100.4 degrees F). The fever is sometimes associated with chills or other symptoms, including headache, general feeling of discomfort, and body aches. Some individuals experience mild respiratory symptoms at the outset. Diarrhea is seen in approximately 10 to 20 percent of patients. After 2 to 7 days, SARS patient may develop a dry, nonproductive cough that might be accompanied by hypoxia. In 10 to 20 percent of cases, patients require mechanical ventilation. Most patients develop pneumonia. The disease is spread by close person-to-person contact through direct contact with respiratory secretions and/or body fluids of an infected individual. The incubation period is typically 2 to 7 days, but there are reported cases of up to 14 days. An individual is considered infectious only when they have symptoms, and are considered most contagious during the second week of illness. (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2005) According to the World Health Organization (WHO), in November 2002 a SARS outbreak emerged in South China. An infected medical doctor who had treated infected patients...
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...if you were in Governor Quinn's position in Illinois? Be sure to explain fully based on the knowledge gained during this week's readings. http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-0815-leucadia-exit--20120815,0,7834384.story 2. What is clean coal? Is it really clean? Why or why not? Be sure to use additional new sources to support some of your answer. http://www.cleancoalusa.org/ http://coalisnottheanswer.org/notclean.html When we look at the cost of using various types of energy, we don't always want to think only about the financial cost. While this is important, it is fleeting. You pay the bill and you are done. The other effects of using various energies are long term. I was Reading Destiny of a Republic, the story of President Garfield's shooting and death in office. After 2 months of sweltering heat in the White House, he was not doing well and they prepared a train to take him to the Jersey shore for cooler weather and better views. They knew he was in bad shape. They created a special train that burned "cleaner Anthrocyte coal" to avoid getting pollution into his infected wounds. In the 1880s we realized that pollutions were bad for sick people. Now, we know that this may actually be partially responsible for some of the illnesses in the world. The use of energy has cost to health for the environment and for the people who live here. If you've ever looked at home prices, you know that those that are near manufacturing or near a landfill...
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...average degree have been growing up from the gree house affect. Although there are many kind of reasons cause global warming, I think the main problems are less educational system and lack of international cooperation. For instance, an educated country has good air quality. In New Zealand and Australia, there almost have no air pollution problem because the people get environmental awareness in these both countries. How in some countries, for example, in China, the air pollution has become a really serious problem. In Beijing, people have to always wear mask while they are hanging out. The industries in China discharge polluted water without filtration because some people in China have been taught what environmental awareness is while they are studying in school. the New York-based Natural Resources Defense Council estimated that "in 2012, coal burning led to 670,000 premature deaths in China from diseases including heart disease, stroke, emphysema and lung cancer." Moreover, IPCC showed that "international cooperation is significant for solving the problem of global warming." For instance, South Korea closes to China geographically. However, whether how much efforts South Korea does in reducin air pollution, the air pollution is still affecting South Korea from China if both countries...
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...Congestion increases travel time, air pollution, carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and fuel because cannot run efficiently. London’s traffic at the turn of the millennium may have been far worse than that of the average metropolis. When driving in London’s downtown area, drivers spend around half their time waiting in traffic, incurring 2.3 minutes of delay every kilometer they traveled. Traffic congestion is a growing problem in many metropolitan areas. People waste a lot of time in traffic jams every day. Big cities are never good, and London’s downtown area’s traffic is to say unbelievable. Congestion increases travel time, air pollution, carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and fuel because cannot run efficiently. London’s traffic at the turn of the millennium may have been far worse than that of the average metropolis. When driving in London’s downtown area, drivers spend around half their time waiting in traffic, incurring 2.3 minutes of delay every kilometer they traveled. In the case we are studying the government decided to use the information technology to help the city control the traffic jam situation. The government decided to use 699 cameras at 203 sites in the 8 square miles in the city. To do this would be a challenging project because the project has a very limited time and there is no other successful case to follow. A political risk is really high and a new transit authority working under a new major faced the challenge of integrating new technologies. London government...
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...cause health problems for your baby. You may not be able to protect your baby from all pesticides, but there are things you can do to limit your baby’s exposure to (contact with) them How is your baby exposed to pesticides? Your baby may come in contact with pesticides as part of everyday life. Pesticides may be in: Air and water Bug sprays Cleaning products, like bleach Food. Farmers may use pesticides on food crops to protect them from insects. Lawn and garden products, like weed killer. Grass in public spaces, like parks, may be treated with pesticides to keep bugs away and weeds from growing. Pet products, like flea and tick shampoo Rodent poisons, like mouse or rat bait How can pesticides affect your baby’s health? Pesticides are more dangerous for babies and children than adults because their bodies are still developing. Some research shows that exposure to pesticides as a baby may be linked to childhood cancer and development or behavior problems. But other studies haven’t found these links, so we need more research. Pesticides can be poisonous to your baby if she: Swallows them Breathes in large amounts from the air Absorbs large amounts through her skin Your baby may have pesticide poisoning if he has: Belly pain Bleeding in the nose or gums Coughing or trouble breathing Diarrhea, nausea (feeling sick to his stomach) or throwing up Dizziness Headache Seizures If you think your baby has pesticide poisoning, call 911 or the...
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...Transport and Logistics Systems Name Institutional affiliation Table of Contents Table of Contents 2 1.1. Introduction 4 2. Transport and modes of transport 5 2.1. Transport 5 2.2. The modes of transport 5 2.3. Air Transport 5 2.4. Advantages and Disadvantages of Air Transport 6 Advantages 6 2.5. Economic and Environmental Impacts of Air Transport 6 Economic Impact 6 2.5.1. Road Transport 7 2.6. Advantages and Disadvantages of Road Transport 7 Advantages 7 2.6.1.1. Economic and Environmental Impacts of Road Transport 8 2.6.2. Rail Transport 8 2.6.2.1. Advantages and Disadvantages of Rail Transport 9 2.6.2.2. Economic and Environmental Impacts of Rail Transport 9 2.6.3. Water Transport 9 2.6.3.1. Advantages and Disadvantages of water transport 9 2.7. Economic and Environmental Impacts of Water Transport 10 2.7.1. Pipeline Transport 10 2.7.1.1. Advantages and Disadvantages of Pipeline 10 2.8. Economic and Environmental Impacts of pipeline transport 10 2.9. Interrelationships between transport and logistics 11 Conclusion 12 References 13 Abstract The whole process of transport determines the effectiveness of moving goods and people. The advancement in techniques and management roles improves the moving of commodities, service quality, operating...
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...Economic impact of industrial pollution in China Outline I. Introduction Brief overview why China is the target country II. Overview of the problem a. Large population are suffering from the pollution b. Industrial growth based on coal uses; serious air pollution in most cities in China III. Economic effects c. Reduction of the labor force: high death rate to workers due to the pollution, especially air pollution; high risk for children to grow up in such environment. d. Fewer foreign investments: Foreign companies’ policy or culture require good environment for their employee; high rate of employee turnover because of pollution IV. Possible solutions e. Solution 1: Increased oversight on industrial operations f. Solution 2: Restrictions on development of new industries g. Solution 3: Use of change leadership to overhaul current policies tax subsidy/ mandates /cap and trade invest in new technology V. Conclusion/Recommendation The Chinese government needs to create new laws, borrow a leaf from The Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Introduction In an economically competitive world, most countries around the globe constantly compete to attain the top position in the international market in order to reap the benefits that come with such progress. For this reason, most countries insist on industrialization with some showing more zeal as compared to others through political policies...
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...Throughout the history of the United States things have constantly been changing and with new technologies being used sometimes the advancement of the country has come at the cost of neglecting environmental issues. The environmental issues would often be put on the back burner and just looked past but a young environmental president by the name of Teddy Roosevelt began to change things. During his presidency and political career Roosevelt brought many environmental issues to the spotlight make very positive change for the environment as well as sparking a new found interest for United States citizen to start making change to protect this earth that we live on. Roosevelt and the other environmentalist were the stepping stones that bring us to the many changes in conservation laws and environmental protection that took place from 1920-1955. During this time period of 1920-1955 many great acts along with environmental groups were formed allowing conservation laws and environmental protection to take enormous leaps in a positive direction. While fighting many hard battles these conservationist and preservation groups would sometimes have to take one step back in order to take two steps forward, but it is those forward steps that lead to the awareness of how important protecting the environment is and set the building blocks for National Parks, forested lands, wildlife protection and so on. In order to take a closer look at these changes we shall take a closer look at the progression...
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...are around 100,000 garment manufactures, which employ approximately 10 million workers. Its exporters are currently having to deal with the strain of higher wage costs, lower demands and fluctuations in raw material prices. Advantages Disadvantages • Largest manufacturer in the world - can produce almost anything required • Manufacturers may help with design of product • Typically good quality products • Relatively low prices • Efficient machinery • Large population and therefore large work force allow the country to lead in the worlds production • Continued industrial upgrading • Language barrier • Long distance (if problems occur) • Long lead time • Cultural barriers (different national/religious holidays) • Chinese lunar new year occurs in January or February each year, and therefore factories may be shut at this time. • Time difference – small window of opportunity for direct communication • Factories having to pay higher prices for more materials and higher wage costs as the price of living increases – may impact on cost pricing • Growth of environmental protection issues India Advantages Disadvantages • Skilled workers that produce beautiful handmade and embellished garments • Low prices • Business creates jobs for local people, including women • Factories constantly improving and developing (e.g. Roverco ‘equipped with modern equipment’) • Language barrier • Long distance (if problems occur) • Long lead time • Cultural barriers (different national/religious...
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