...and container traffic. The increase in traffic will also increase the poor quality of air emitted in the City of Commerce. The lead agency is the public agency which has the principal responsibility for approving a proposed project such as the SCIG. The railroad yards and trucking transportation is the main industry of this city that increases the revenue, but the environment must be a safety priority to your residents. How can the city continue to increase their revenue without continually putting the residents at an increase in health risk due to the smog and carcinogen causing pollution from the trains and trucking industry? The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) is a statewide policy that was passed by the United States federal government for environmental protection. The California Environmental Policy Act (CEPA) passed in 1970, which does not regulate land use, but requires the state and local agencies within California to follow a...
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...RUNNING HEAD: SOLYNDRA AND BAD BUSINESS DECISIONS 1 Solyndra and Bad Business Decisions Annette Frazer American Public University SOLYNDRA AND BAD BUSINESS DECISIONS 2 In 2005, President George Bush’s administration created a loan guarantee program to help fund and grow energy projects specifically. The program was overseen and decisions were made by the Department of Energy. The program was continued on during President Obama’s administration with very few changes. Under the Bush administration, Solyndra applied for and was denied financial assistance when they applied. Solyndra is a solar panel company that was issued more than $500 million in federally guaranteed loans during and by the Obama administration. (Report, 2015, p.1.) According to many, Due Diligence was not exercised by the Department of Energy in investigating this company and their request for funding. During the investigation, the people who were involved in investigating and eventually backing the loan stated that there was “political pressure” from the Administration to push through the loan. (Howell, 2015, p.1) It is speculated that one of the reasons that the loan was pushed through was that many of the investors of the company were major political contributors to President Obama’s campaign fund. This is would be considered a conflict of interest and could cause undue pressure to the loan investigators. Solyndra, however, also lied to the many agencies involved. They were not...
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...Social government policies aim to improve human welfare and meet human needs for education, human health and etc. The National Environmental policy act is considered a social policy. For example, The National Environmental policy law was established to promoting the beauty of the environment impact in the U.S. The policy was the first laws written to establish the vast national substructure to protect the environment. According to one of my resource articles, NEPA requires federal agencies to assess the environmental effects of their proposed actions prior to making decisions on permit applications, adopting federal land management actions and constructing highways and other publicly owned facilities. The main purpose of NEPA is to declare a national policy which will encourage productive and enjoyable harmony between man and his environment to eliminate damage and to environment and to the biosphere and stimulate the health and welfare of men. The National environmental policy was signed by Richard Nixon in January 1 1970. Which then followed through with the creation of the environmental quality which would analyze the environmental impacts on federal actions. This law primarily focused on pollution with air, surface water, ground water and solid waste disposal. It was officially passed on December 20 1969, but it was a whole full process to get it passed. Senator Henry M. Jackson, was the brain child of act. Making the case for the National Policy was a whole lot of...
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...Daylight saving time was first proposed in 1895, but most countries have introduced it in the 1970s. From the very beginning, the idea has had its proponents and opponents. Many people claim that having to adjust clocks twice a year is not worthwhile, others, however, consider it an indispensable element of our lives. Daylight saving time may often prove beneficial. First of all, setting the clocks forward in spring causes evenings to be longer, as it provides us with an additional daylight hour. When the night falls later, people feel encouraged to go out more often and, consequently, to spend more money. Needless to say, a longer evening brings about the increase in consumption, which boosts the economy. In addition to that, time shifting...
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...EIA process Resources Screening Scoping Prediction and mitigation Management and monitoring Auditing Public participation Managing uncertainty Techniques Final report - Environmental impact statement The EIA process makes sure that environmental issues are raised when a project or plan is first discussed and that all concerns are addressed as a project gains momentum through to implementation. Recommendations made by the EIA may necessitate the redesign of some project components, require further studies, suggest changes which alter the economic viability of the project or cause a delay in project implementation. To be of most benefit it is essential that an environmental assessment is carried out to determine significant impacts early in the project cycle so that recommendations can be built into the design and cost-benefit analysis without causing major delays or increased design costs. To be effective once implementation has commenced, the EIA should lead to a mechanism whereby adequate monitoring is undertaken to realize environmental management. An important output from the EIA process should be the delineation of enabling mechanisms for such effective management. The way in which an EIA is carried out is not rigid: it is a process comprising a series of steps. These steps are outlined below and the techniques more commonly used in EIA are described in some detail in the section Techniques. The main steps in the EIA process are: • screening • scoping • prediction...
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...Analysis of Sydney Tar Ponds and Coke Ovens Sites Remediation Project Environmental Assessment of 2005 Table of Contents 1.0 Introduction1 2.0 Sydney Tar Ponds Environmental Assessment2 2.1 Critical Discussion4 3.0 Conclusions5 References7 Assignment Checklist9 AppendixI 1.0 Introduction The Sydney Tar Ponds in Nova Scotia are the result of lack of foresight by the Canadian government and the Dominion Iron & Steel Company Ltd. on the effects of the steel mills operations on the social, economic and environmental factors which affected the communities around the tar ponds. The Coke Ovens is a 68 hectare former industrial property bounded by residential and former industrial lands. It contains several watercourses including Coke Ovens Brook. From 1901 to 1988, various coke production plants operating on the site provided carbon and fuel for the nearby steel mill. Other industrial plants on the property used by-products from the coking operations to manufacture various commercial products. An estimated 560,000 tons (280,000 m3) of soil on the Coke Ovens is contaminated with petroleum hydrocarbons, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), and metals. An additional 1,300 tons (1,000 m3) of PAH contaminated sediment is present in Coke Ovens Brook and 25,000 (12,500 m3) tons of contaminated soil is present in the in-ground tar cell (Griffiths et al. 2006). The main problem with the Sydney Tar Ponds was how the toxic waste material from the coke ovens (tailings)...
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...Environmental and Economic Impact Assessment By Lori Wiley May 16, 2016 Eco/370 In Chapter 11 a narrow strip of land that is considered rainforest country is discussed. This land is known as the Tongass National Forest. Due to it being so scarce and the cutting of trees for timber, it poses a great threat compared to the tropical rainforests. This forest was once untouched and preserved. Over recent years and decades land has been converted into private land and owned by the state of Alaska. President Clinton put the Roadless Area Conservation Rule in force to protect nearly one-third of the 192 million acres in the national forest system, nationwide (B.C Field, 2013). The Bush administration promised to uphold the rule when elected. However, the Bush administration lied and withdrew it. This left 9.3 million acres without protection. This puts much of the heart of Alaska's rainforest, once again, back on the chopping block (B.C Field, 2013). The big ancient tree forest is a big target to the logging companies. These big trees provide much needed shelter to wildlife living within the forest. The timber industry is tearing out the heart of the Tongass Rainforest. The problem with logging is it is somewhat economic. Logging on private and public lands has been heavily subsidized, and industry's plan has been to log the best of the forest first, then the best of what is left. About half of forest covered with big trees and two-thirds of the biggest-tree stands have been...
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...ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT Chapter-1 Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) can be defined as a systematic identification and evaluation of the potential impacts (effects) of proposed projects, plans, programs, or legislative actions relative to the physical-chemical, biological, cultural and socioeconomic components of the total environment. The primary purpose of the EIA process, also called the ‘NEPA process’ (National Environmental Policy Act) is to encourage the consideration of the environment in planning and decision making and to ultimately arrive at actions which are more environmentally compatible. NEPA of 1969 effective from January 1, 1970 in USA and is referred to as the ‘Magna Carta for the environment’ in (CEQ, 1993a) Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) guidelines and regulation and other number of federal agency procedures and regulations, is to ensure the balanced decision making regarding the environment occurs in the total public interest. Project planning and decision making should include the integrated consideration of technical, economic, environmental, social and other factors. Most of these considerations can be referred to as “the three E’s” (engineering or technical, economics, and environment) The requirement of NEPA is understood significantly under three terms namely, 1. Environmental inventory 2. Environmental Impact Assessment 3. Environmental Impact Statement “Environmental inventory” is also...
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...Let’s talk about social government policies in the economy. Social government policies aim to improve human welfare and to meet human needs for education, health, housing and social security. For example, The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) is considered a social policy. The NEPA is a national environmental law that the U.S. established promoting the enhancement of the environment and to regulate activities that have an environmental impact in the United States. January 1st 1970, President Richard Nixon signed the NEPA which then proceeded to create the Council on Environmental Quality which would analyze the environmental impact of federal actions. The legislation during this period concerned primarily first-generation pollutants in the air, surface water, groundwater, and solid waste disposal. Air pollutants such as nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide, and ozone were put under regulation, and issues such as acid rain and global warming were also concerns. In surface water, the contaminants of concern were bacteria, suspended and dissolved solids, nutrients, and toxic substances such as metals. Finally, solid waste contaminants from agriculture, industry, mining, municipalities, and others were put under control. The NEPA goes through a series of actions before making a...
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...with a process known as hydraulic fracturing(which uses over five-hundred different chemicals, most known to be cancerous to the human body), which starts to make locals in the communities incredibly ill. This begins to create conflict within the communities. So the gas companies try to break even with the locals by buying and installing water filters to clean their water. The filters do not work and this forces the locals into purchasing bottle water from stores, which is a huge inconvenience. But, how are these gas industries allowed to mistreat these communities? Turns out, a politician by the name of Dick Cheney, pushed a bill (Energy bill) through congress back in 2005 which exempts the oil and natural gas industries from a number of acts. This in turn, allows them to keep their hydraulic fracturing chemicals safe from discloser. In conclusion, we can see that these huge gas companies...
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...Daylight saving in today's society has been recognized as the day that takes away an hour of valuable sleep. Why would such a day be created. In fact, Daylight savings had been created by Ben Franklin in the year of 1784 in order to save candles. This idea by Ben certainly doesn’t apply or help today's society, since lightbulbs have been created. However today's society has found that Daylight savings actually provides our world with many benefits. We actually kept daylight savings time, because it provides us with better safety and conserves our economy. Safety is a concern that many have throughout life, and daylight savings has clearly shown its considerable role in safety in two ways. A graph shows that in the beginning of daylight savings,...
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...Has the clock struck midnight for Daylight Savings Time? If something wasteful was costing you money would you want to continue doing it? What if it was bad for your Health? Each year millions of dollars are thrown out the window due to Daylight Savings Time. For the last 50 years we have had to move our clocks forward one hour during the spring, and push them back one hour during the fall. This process is called Daylight Savings Time, a concept that I along with many others feel is no longer practical and should be abolished. Daylight Savings Time was first conceived by Benjamin Franklin in 1784 as a way to conserve on candles (History of Daylight Savings Time-DST). When electricity came around many saw it as a way to conserve energy. Their theory was that if it was light outside you were outside, therefore using less electricity in your home. With this concept in mind Daylight Savings Time was first enacted during World War I and then again in World War II as a way to conserve on energy (History of Daylight Savings Time-DST). Recent studies have shown this may no longer be the case. With the invention of television, computers, video games, air conditioning, and every other electronic comfort device we own, whether or not it is daylight outside appears to have no effect on the amount of electricity we use. A report released by the California Energy Commission in 2007 reported that Daylight Savings Time “had little to no effect on energy consumption in California” (Mercola). The...
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...and Twitter and another organization who uses the personal detail from the people or customers , the reason being of many hackers invading other people's privacy this also can happen with many businesses as well such as Tesco ,Asda e.g. if they do not have a security system to keep them safe . Legal Issues These are various items of legislation to protect the use of business information. Data Protection Act 1998 is one of the legal issue business information. Many businesses store use information about people. The Data Protection Act protects information held about people from being misused. The information stored by businesses on databases must be: ✓ Obtained fairly and lawfully ✓ Used only for the purposes stated during collection ✓ Adequate, relevant and not excessive in relation to the intended use ✓ Accurate and up to date ✓ Not kept for longer than necessary ✓ Processed in line with your rights ✓ Subject to procedures to prevent unlawful processing, accidental loss, destruction and damage to personal data ✓ Protected from transfer to an area outside the European Economic Area (EEA) unless adequate protection exists for that data Freedom of Information Act 2000 in another legal issue used in business information. This Act provides individuals or organisations with the right to request information held by a public authority. The public authority must...
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...Ethical and operational issues……………………………………………………………..7 * Introduction This report will explain the legal and ethical issues that relate to the use of business information. l personally think that legal and ethical issues are usually to do with something that involves people having to abide to a law, in most cases there will be a consequence for not abiding with the law. Tesco may collect and process information about you, including: * Information that you give to them. You may give them information about you by filling in forms on the Tesco website or by corresponding with them by phone, e-mail and more. The information you give Tesco may include your name, address, e-mail address, phone number, personal description and photograph. * Information they collect about you. With regard to each of your visits to the Tesco website they may automatically collect technical information and information about your visit. * Information they receive from other sources. Tesco may receive information about customers if they use any of the other websites they operate or the other services they provide. Tesco, as well as other business, also work closely with third parties, which mean they may receive information about you from them. * Ethical issues Ethical issues are moral principles that govern a person’s or group’s behaviour businesses ethnics are moral principles that concern businesses behaving in an acceptable and unacceptable way. Codes of practice exist in companies...
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...there various types of information pass through our company on daily basis, however there are three main legislations that are on place to protect the use of business information, which are: * Data protection 1998 * The Freedom of information Act 2000 * The Computer misuse Act 1990 Data Protect Act 1998 protects the information held about people whether they are employees or the customers from being misused by our organisation which hold the information. For example our organisation has to make sure in order to comply with the Data Protect Act by ensuring the information we stored in our database is: * Gathered fairly and lawfully (for example when our customers are applying our club card rewarding scheme they are all given the same application form to fill to make sure there is not any bias involved in the process). * Used only for the purpose we stated during the collection, for example when our customers are applying the Tesco’s club card we stated we will keep their details safe and only use the information for getting in touch with them, therefore we shouldn’t use their information for any other purpose. * Adequate, relevant, not excessive in relation to the intended use, for example our Tesco club card application form to the customers shouldn’t include any irrelevant questions e.g. asking...
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