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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Environmental Groups Tiffany Tremaine May 2‚ 2011 Environmental Policies 310 Instructor: David Monda Environmental Working Group known as EWG is an Environmental interest group working to protect kids from toxic chemicals in our food‚ water‚ air‚ and other products we use every day. The mission of the Environmental Working Group is to use the power of public information to protect public health and the environment. EWG is a 501(c) (3) non-profit organization‚ founded in 1993 by Ken Cook and
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Environmental Turmoil David Lepianka Saint Leo University Abstract The environment is fragile and forever-changing due to man’s interactions. Society has devised laws to help protect‚ restore‚ and ensure that the environment’s resources continue to exist for future generations. Corporations sometimes lose sight of these concepts and it is left to governmental agencies to enforce laws designed to protect the environment without bias or monetary incentives. Keywords: environment‚ ethical
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What is the impact of human activity on the natural environment? Answer: Humans are a part of the natural environment. Unfortunately‚ we have not yet learnt to moderate our activities in such a way as to help the environment. Human activities often lead to degradation of the environment. Impacts of humans include: • pollution - land‚ freshwater creeks and rivers‚ seas and oceans‚ and air • deforestation and destruction of habitats • endangerment and extinction of flora and fauna species
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David Kennedy WRD 104-106 11/16/12 Reflective Essay Creating professional writing is one of the most challenging processes to learn and understand. Along with understanding the English language‚ rhetoric and composition are the tools that communicate thoughts and ideas. It is a curriculum that may never be completely mastered‚ but I hope I have made significant strides through my Word 104 class this autumn. There have been many different forms of writing that has been analyzed‚ critiqued‚ revised
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This article on creating corporate advantage could be considered a literature review and an empirical piece. The authors take their existing knowledge of corporate advantages‚ apply it to three multibusiness companies and their strategies‚ and ultimately answer the question how can you tell if your company is really more than the sum of its parts? As most multibusiness companies are nothing more than the sum of their parts‚ many corporate executives face pressures to add value to these parts. It
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Environmental Hazards Environmental hazards consist of cultural‚ biological‚ physical‚ and chemical hazards (Wright‚ Boorse‚ 2014). With a wide array of other hazards in each category there is plenty to choose from and makes one wonder why we continue to survive among so many potential hazards. I will be focusing on one type of hazard from each category to show what threats there are and a way to combat the threat. One example of a cultural hazard is smoking which accounts for over 400‚000 deaths
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college‚ life can seem overwhelming. One of the most important things to them‚ however‚ may possibly relationships and sexual ones at that. The purpose of our survey was to find out just how much teenagers really know about teen pregnancy and awareness. The questions we asked we really geared towards gauging their knowledge on the topic to see how much education they had received in the past. Another purpose‚ I feel‚ was to find out what changes could be made in sex education to make teenagers
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The importance of environmental protection Environmental protection is an increasingly pressing issue all over the world. Ozone depletion‚ green house effect‚ global climate changes or global warming‚ etc‚ are the main issues in environment. Recent years‚ many countries and various organizations have paid more attention into environmental protection. A treaty about global environmental protection was discussed by 192 nations in Copenhagen in December 2011. But I fell every individual
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inequalities. In parallel‚ we will support community-driven development management as a way to ensure more democratic and participatory local development processes. Last but not least‚ we will focus on encouraging the protection and sustainable use of environmental resources‚ as these represent one of Sri Lanka’s most precious and crucial assets‚ as well as its most threatened due to the increasing impact of climate change. On behalf of ACTED‚ I would like to extend a warm thank you to our partners‚ donors
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