Environmental Racism in Los Angeles and its Formation The siting of a $500 million railyard project backed by BNSF Railroad Company‚ which recently won the approval from Los Angeles Harbor Commissioners and Los Angeles City Council‚ has been a highly debated issue in Long Beach‚ Los Angeles. According to a report from Pacific Swell‚ ‘The BNSF railway’s project would serve as a transfer point between the harbor complex and rail. Short-haul trucks would travel four miles up the freeway to move
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nImproving the Quality of Environmental Documents A Report of the Joint AASHTO/ACEC Committee in Cooperation with the Federal Highway Administration May 2006 American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials Acknowledgments AASHTO‚ ACEC‚ and FHWA gratefully acknowledge the contributions of the task team members who worked on this effort. In addition to the information provided in this guide‚ a wealth of information compiled by the Education Task Team will be accessible
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AN INTRODUCTION TO ENVIRONMENTAL LAW James Maurici‚ Landmark Chambers Introduction 1. This talk will look at: i. What is environmental law? ii. The sources of environmental law iii. Some key concepts in environmental law: the precautionary principle‚ the polluter pays‚ public participation and access to environmental justice iv. An introduction to the main areas of environmental law: a. air quality b. climate change c. contaminated land d. noise e. environmental permitting f. waste g. water h. nature
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1. INTRODUCTION Environmental Pollution is the most important threat to the human race on this planet today. Environment consists of earth‚ air‚ water‚ flora and fauna. It means adding impurity which threatens the life of flora and fauna to the environment. These impurities are mainly created by man-made activities. The impurity can be air‚ water‚ land any sort of thermal radiation‚ etc. As we moving towards globalization there is rapid increase in industrialization and technological growth which
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Environmental crises are distinguished by rapid and largely unexpected changes in environmental quality that are di¢ cult if not impossible to reverse. Examples would be major extinctions and significant degradations of an ecosystem. The world is facing a very serious environmental crisis. Key environmental problems include air pollution‚ the destruction of the ozone layer‚ vast quantities of toxic waste‚ massive levels of soil erosion‚ the possible exhaustion of key natural resources such as oil
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Environmental Factors in Colombia Organizations are not isolated of what happens in the environment outside them‚ they face uncertainty in dealing with events in the external environment and they have to adapt to new changes regarding customers‚ government‚ economic conditions and technology. It is very important for organizations in Colombia to become aware of their environment because assessing it could make them more competitive and allow them to adapt and survive in the market‚ but the
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Environmental Disasters For the purpose of this article an environmental disaster is defined as a specific event caused by human activity that results in a seriously negative effect on the environment. Sometimes a natural disaster can become an environmental disaster‚ but that is a topic to be discussed elsewhere. In most cases environmental disasters are caused by human error‚ accident‚ lack of foresight‚ corner cutting during industrial processes‚ greed‚ or by simple incompetence. In other
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Public Awareness about Open Dumping of Solid Wastes and Its Effect on the Surrounding Environment: A Study at Kachuadanga in Tangail Pourashava‚ Tangail‚ Bangladesh. T. R. Tusher‚ M. Mustafa and S. Khanam Department of Environmental Science and Resource Management Mawlana Bhashani Science & Technology University‚ Santosh‚ Tangail-1902 Abstract The study was conducted to know the public awareness about open dumping of solid wastes and its effect on the surroundings
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Environmental problems Everyone has heard about global problems. Television and the press often writes about storms‚ droughts‚ melting of glaciers‚ or hunger in Africa. But not too many of us know the details‚ and the stories behind those problems. These days the biggest environmental problems are: Global warming‚ Pollution‚ drought‚ overpopulation‚ deforestation‚ Endangered species. Let’s start from global warming. Global warming is the process by which the Earth’s average atmospheric temperature
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Analysis For the analysis Phase of this project‚ the rate of exposure is required. For this to be determined some assumptions were made; the environmental badges received 10 mrem/quarter of exposure‚ the synchrotron equally exposes the entire facility; the Radiation follows the Inverse Square law for the relation of exposure to 2 points away from a source‚ and all other factors of exposure attenuation were ignored. These assumptions simplified the calculations to only be dependent on the distance
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