Essays on Pollution Control

The rapid rate of industrialization today has caused the world to develop some environmental concerns. China, one of the most populated countries in the world, has had fast hand experience of these problems. Due to heavy machinery use and the nation being the world's leading source of environmental carbon-emission, health concerns have been reported and a number of threats documented. This essay is going to discuss the various aspects of environmental pollution such as the causes, effects, how big the problem is, and how these concerns have been addressed. Air pollution is one of the critical environmental concerns in ...

Introduction

Air pollution is defined as the introduction of biological molecules, particulates, and other harmful substances into the air in sufficient quantities such that they cause damage to the health of living organisms including human beings, plants, and animals and may sometimes cause death. These pollutants may also cause harm to property resulting in corrosion of buildings and causing them to crumble or destroy the environment by introducing foul odors and reducing visibility. Two different types of air pollution exist: natural or artificial, depending on the causative factors. Air pollutants are also classified into primary and secondary sources. Primary sources ...

People had become increasingly aware of the need to conserve and preserve the environment. The irresponsible dumping and mismanagement of wastes inevitably causes various kinds of pollution in the environment, especially air pollution. In fact, air pollution was recently identified as a global health concern and the leading environmental risk factor that allegedly causes the fourth leading cause of deaths worldwide . Due to the reported urgency in addressing alarming levels of air pollution, various studies have been published which scrutinized the causes and effects of air pollution. The current discourse hereby aims to expound on the three (3) major ...

Forewords

Water sustainability is a crucial issue in Nigeria as well as in other developing countries. The significant issues of water sustainability in Nigeria include many factors as desertification; the depletion of critical wetlands, forests and vegetation covers at a fast rate. In addition, it includes the pollution of water sources from point sources such as industrial effluent and urban domestic wastes; unregulated utilization of groundwater for domestic purposes. There is also an issue of unavailability of portable water for citizens in most parts of the country particularly those in the rural areas and so forth (Ajai). These water sustainability issues are ...

A theoretical approach is proposed in order to link the strong environmental management to the improved supposed future financial performance as examined by the stock market performance. Therefore, the linkage to the firm’s performance is tested empirically with the help of a financial event methodology as well as the archival data of the firm-level environmental and financial performance. This enabled the researcher to measure the positive returns for the strong environmental management as directed by the environmental performance award. It was found out that the linkage between the environmental management and the financial performance may be useful to both practitioners and ...

Thesis: Consisting of more than 70% of the surface of the earth, water is without a doubt the most valuable natural resource, which subsists on earth. Without this precious resource, life on the planet would essentially be non-existent, since it is crucial for everything on the earth to grow as well as prospering. Although as humans we recognize this reality, we ignore it through polluting our lakes, oceans, and rivers. The pollution of water causes numerous problems such as killing of fishes and diseases. Water pollution is harmful to animals as well as human beings. Nevertheless, there are numerous solutions ...

Global warming has evolved into a demure problem in the present-day world. The problem is very serious, as it concerns a possible lift of temperature and climate alter. Climate warming is a slow and gradual upsurge in the medium temperature on our planet that there is currently. Climate warming is a fact, with which to argue is pointless, and it is therefore necessary to take a sober and objective approach to its understanding. The Earth is warming and this has a tragic effect on the glaciers of our planet. The temperature surges, the ice begins to melt, and the sea level begins to rise. This ...

Water can be considered one of the most vital resources in the planet because of its benefits to every aspect of life. Aside from being used for drinking, water ensures that life is continously sustained around the planet. However, as mankind continues to grow, supplies of critical resources like water are slowly drying out due to various causes. While a majority could argue that it is due to the changing climates causing extreme heat, there are others saying that the reducing supply for water is because of pollution. For countries like the United States, issues regarding water supply and pollution ...

The environment is under different types of threats. Environmental pollution has been a key issue of concern in the last two centuries. The sustainability of human activities is something that the government has tried to look at in a detailed manner. Air pollution has been one of the most dangerous pollution in the environment. The human activities have contributed much to air pollution. The impacts of air pollution in the environment are massive and hazardous especially to the future generation the human activities especially industrial emission and automotive emission has been the main source of air pollution (Ackerman and William 1468). ...

Organization

Introduction In America, one of the most important matter of national concern is clean water. Almost half the Americans believe that clean water is one the fundamental rights of every citizen. Thousands of Americans take part in the local and state water protection group. The Clean Water Act or the Federal Water Pollution Control Act is the principal law that governs the pollution of the surface water of United States of America. The act was originally enacted in 1948 but it underwent certain amendments in 1972 to come to its present form. The 1972 act laid out ambitious ...

AIR POLLUTION

Public Policy Issue: Air Pollution Since ancient times, man has struggled to find clever ideas to make life easier for the sake of progress. The struggle proved fruitful, leading to the advent of the Industrial Revolution in the 17th century and the establishment of industrialized capitals that continue to grow across the globe. Man’s continuous struggle for development is not without consequence. Populations themselves continue to grow, most notably near industrialized areas and highly urbanized areas. In the highly urbanized areas, it is affected by pollutants caused by the by-products of industrialization (outdoor air pollution) and consumer ...

Pollution Control Proposal

This proposal is submitted to the office of the City Mayor and to the office of the City Council for the purpose of establishing an environmental program that will address the issue of air pollution in the city. This proposal shall include a background on pollution and the rationale for establishing a pollution-mitigation program as well as the costs and benefits of the implementation of such a program. The proposal concludes with an indicative listing of affirmative steps leading to an approval and implementation of the proposed pollution control program.

Background

Air pollution is a serious concern in the world and is becoming a very ...

INTRODUCTION

Pollution entails emission of toxic compounds into the environment. Air pollution is the discharge of toxic gaseous compounds into the atmosphere. Air pollutants are comprised mainly of carbonaceous compounds such smoke from cigars, chimneys, and smoke stacks in industrial settings. Air pollutants contain biological molecules or particulates which pose the danger of diseases and long-term health complications to humans, animals, and plants. This paper focuses on the effects of pollution and explores ethical aspects of pollution. According to McLean , the main agents of air pollution are commercial industries with large scale applications of fossil fuels. Industrial air pollution ...

Discuss the pros and cons of cap-and-trade policies. Are you for or against? Why?

In the wake of the demand to decrease environmental pollution, there has been intense

in effective pollution control. One of the policies discussed in this regard is “cap and trade” which aims at reducing the carbon emissions by factories by fixing a limit or a so called cap on the amount of pollutants that can be emitted by these industries. According to an article

Guide to Designing and Operating a Cap and Trade Program for Pollution Control, a cap and

trade program establishes a total emission cap that decides a specific emission limit decided by concerned authorities. The pollution target is pre determined and the cap is reduced every year in order to achieve this ...

Management

Introduction The oil and gas sector of the United States of America supplies around 65 percent of U.S. energy. This sector includes petroleum refining and gas and oil extraction industry. Globally, the United States of America accounts for more than 500,000 producing wells for petroleum and has around 4000 natural gas and oil platforms. It is the third largest producer of petroleum in the world. In total, this country has around 144 refineries which produce crude oil of more than 17 million barrels daily (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency). There have been several factors like alternative fuels, ...

Internet Encyclopedia of Garbage

Web Site No.: 1 Page Title: The Truth about Nitrite in Lunch Meat Organization Operating Server: Livescience Hyperlink: LIVESCIENCE.COM Brief Justification of Web Site as Appropriate: The website is appropriate because it explains the harmful side of nitrite preservatives in meets. While sodium nitrite helps fight harmful bacteria in harmful meats, it may damage cells or chance into cancer-causing molecules. Nitrites may also disable the oxygen-carrying capacity of blood.

Web Site No.: 2

Page Title: The Nitrate and Nitrite Myth: another reason not to fear bacon Organization Operating Server: Chris Kresser Hyperlink: THE NITRATE AND NITRITE ...

Introduction

The problem of air and water pollution has been a great concern not only to the people of New Jersey but throughout the world. This has been a problem to the whole world for the past over a hundred years and it still remains a challenge today though several efforts have been made to curb it. From the period of the second half of the 20th century several countries including the United States have tried to come up with certain rules and regulations to help reduce the level of pollution. The United States through the United States Environmental Protection Agency have come up ...

[Author’s name] Organizations always have positive mindsets towards their economical and political behavior and they have to undertake number of options in order to enhance the same. Audit basically refers to a phenomenon in which double checking would have been initiated. In this particular assignment, it is required to pen down an interview session with the management official of a company. The company is Energy Autos, which is intending to provide Energy based Vehicles and Electronic Products to its consumers (Oliva, 2006). There are two individuals who have been taken into consideration for the discussion and interview based purpose. ...

Pollution – process of introduction of contaminants to the atmosphere with negative effect on the environment.

Exponential depletion of resources occurs when use resources such as water, oil or food increases at exponential rate over time. It can also be said that are being depleted at increasing rate, though technically these two concepts are not equivalent. Mathematically, exponential depletion of resources implies that resources available in year t are equal to resources available in the year t-1 raised to the power k, where k is the number between 0 and 1. Ecological systems – communities of living organisms maintaining the balance with non-living ones. Ecosystems are defined by interconnections among living organisms as well as ...

Air quality affects the environment, quality of life and the public health in general. Air pollution usually has very adverse effects on the respiratory system of human beings and other mammals, Raj (2010). It is responsible for the diseases affecting the heart and the lungs and to make the matters worst air pollution associated with cancer. However, due to the rising rates of Air pollution in Washington an Air quality program has been introduced to safeguard the environment and public health by reducing air pollution. In Washington the main sources of air pollution are, wood smoke, outdoor burning and ...

Introduction

Various environmental problems affect the entire world. These environmental problems in reality are the harmful aspects of the human activity on biophysical environment. The major current environmental problems include pollution, climate change, resource depletion, environmental degradation among others. It is disturbing to note that various human activities are responsible for the many environmental problems that we face throughout the world. For instance, there are various industrial activities that directly affect the environment. This report focuses on water pollution from the industrial activities in Sydney Harbor, New South Wales.

Environmental Problem.

Water pollution is an environmental problem that occurs after water bodies ...

Poverty and Pollution

Any environmental damage definitely and immediately threatens the present and future welfare of human beings, of plants, animals and entire ecosystem. Threats to the environment can come from two sources, namely pollution and resource depletion. Both can increase exponentially as industrialization expands. In the Third World, environmental mathematics works like this: the more factories we run the more pollution and resource depletion we have. Pollution refers to the unintended and undesirable contamination of the environment by the producer or use of commodities like fossil fuels, plastics, chemicals and other materials organic or synthetic. Pollution seems to be the ...

What is water

Water is one of the most important sources of our life. The human body consists of from 78% to 55% water, depending on body size. All living things need water even more than food; hence, water is very valuable resource. Water covers over 70 percent of the earth, 96.5% of all water in our planet is in oceans. But only 2% of all Earth's water is drinkable ( ga.water.usgs.gov). In fact, people need water to drink, to wash our hands, to cook, in industrial use and many other things. Any changes in water quality adversely affect living organisms or make ...

- Why do polluters pollute? Consider various reasons for both individuals and businesses. Pollution is putting contaminated materials in the environment. These materials contain dangerous chemicals, which affect the life of living things. Pollution is caused by individuals and organizations, which are involved in different activities. Such kind of activities, which causes pollution, are; mining, manufacturing, and farming. Most polluters pollute due to ignorance and others due to lack of the information about the effects of polluting the environment. Businesses have contributed a lot in the pollution of the environment. Some of them lack enough capital to purchase disposal ...

Introduction

Air food and shelter are the three basic necessities of life where air is the most essential elements for a human body to live and survive. Air is nothing but a mixture of oxygen, vapors, inert gases, and nitrogen which make up to 99.9 percent of it. In turn, human releases carbon dioxide which can be harmful for all the living creatures that are plants, animals and human being . There are numerous kinds of pollution. Its causes and effects have been largely discussed in many platforms. Some of the effects that are well known are development of holes in ozone layer, ...

Introduction

As a matter of fact, air pollution is one among the primary health menace in the urban environments of many countries – both developed and developing. The aspect of air pollution is associated with congestion of human beings, vehicles and factories of the power. Currently, the United Nations, in conjunction with various governments across the globe, is trying to protect the human race through reducing air pollution, with the greater purpose of saving the ozone layer – the protective natural cover that filters the dangerous ultraviolent rays of the sun. Currently, many cities have come up with policies to help curb the ...

Industrialization in developed countries often has severe costs for the environment, and the quality of air is not an exception. To find a beneficial compromise between technological and industrial advancement and care for natural resources, strict and reasonable legislation is necessary. Detailed in this paper are different air quality regulations of two developed countries namely China and the United States. Although there are several similarities between the two, there are ostensible differences between them and the consequences for each country vary. Pollution has been an increasingly pressing ...

Business ethics and environmental pollution

Business ethics and environmental pollution In business ethics, there are three main spheres that a business tries to keep closely monitored. These spheres are: ensuring public relations with the consumers and other stakeholders (company image) is fully maintained, ensuring that the business or employees operates within restricted criminal law and lastly ensuring civil law is also maintained in the business operations. Considering that pollution is not restricted in third world countries, businesses release pollutants into the environment without any form of treatment. This is what makes it questionable to look at the implications of business ethics to polluting ...

Introduction

On a historical footing, an industrial engineer is concerned with the production processes that a company applies to produce goods for their customers. As such, the industrial engineer was tasked with the role of minimizing the production cost while maximizing the product output of the company. However, over time environmental concerns and awareness has increased around the world. Both legislation based requirements and customer demands have titled in favor of companies that observe the green standards, that is, companies that adhere to environmental standards. Owing to this global trend, industrial engineers have had to factor in the environmental conservation and pollution ...

Given the current situation of Climate Change and the slowly dwindling resources of the clean air, water, and land; various actions have already been implemented to prevent further damage. Some have tried to rehabilitate barren lands and dead bodies of waters; others imposed various regulations and policies that would regulate current supplies of resources around their respective regions. Nations have felt the effects of global warming and thus have been trying out various procedures to sustain life and protect the dwindling natural resource. In terms of water, the United States has enforced programs that would ensure that the public ...

The issue on having an abundant supply of clean water has been one of the major frontiers of environmental advocacy since the early 1950s as the globe now feels the consequences of man’s quest for technology and improvement. Global Warming and Pollution are two of the most prominent issues on the environment that affects two of the important resources human kind now slowly reduces – air and water. Water is the fountain of life as it sustains every living organism with nutrients needed for development. Like air, living organisms depend on water to provide nutrients and energy. In the ...

Environmental law is made up of treaties, statutes, regulations, conventions and common law that operate in order to regulate the interaction of human beings with the natural environment. Principally, environmental laws exist in order to guard destructive against human behavior on the environment draws considerations from the following five principles; ecology, stewardship, conservation, sustainability and responsibility. The observance of these principles ensures that man does not damage the environment at his own expense in accessing basic needs such as water, food and air as well as in the day-day human engagements such as commerce (Baker & McKenzie, 2007). These ...

Book Review: Environmental Science

Abstract

Davies and Mazurek (the authors of ‘Pollution Control in the United States’) have evaluated the activities that we have done that contribute to pollution in the past that affect as now and also in the future. The evaluation of past and the speculation of what will happen in the future will help us in coming up with measures to curb and reduce all or some of the activities that contribute to polluting our world. This book covers how the past environmental laws and regulations have worked or failed to work as, well as the analysis of the strengths ...

Environmental Economics Exam

Question One

The laws of thermodynamics

The increasing need for environmental consideration and conservation has been a subject in debates and has received equally varied interpretations from many an environmentalist. Of particular significance is the importance of the laws of thermodynamics in environmental economics, environmental policy planning, and policy design. In this era of increased environmental degradation characterized by severe human activities and implications to the environment, it becomes crucial to apply the principles of thermodynamics in studying the different interactions between natural systems and the interaction of technology in the environment. The First and Second thermodynamic laws formed the ...