General On 18 December 2008 the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued the final Vessel General Permit (VGP) under the authority of the Clean Water Act (CWA) requirements for the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) programme. The requirements will apply to 26 different discharges incidental to the normal operation of all commercial vessels 79 feet or greater in length when operating within the 3 mile territorial sea of the United States commencing on 6 February 2009. The
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Transylvania University Faculty of Economics and Business Administration ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT PROJECT Dumitriu Monica Business Administration 1st Year – Group 8801 Coordinating professor:Ruxandra Albu 2011 COPSA MICA AREA AND HEAVY METALS POLLUTION ABSTRACT The reason for chosing to study Copsa Mica area is because this area is very close to my home town Medias‚ and Copsa Mica‚ alongside Baia Mare and Zlatna are known as the representative areas for nonferrous metallurgy
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and climate change related to greenhouse gas emissions which are worrisome as ever‚ but there are definitely other methods to warn these companies and give them certain deadlines to come up with alternatives. It mentions in the article that Environmental Protection Agency is being lenient by the standards of the law‚ but as “lenient” as this may appear‚ it is still too harsh in light of the fact that not even a single company to this date has been able to produce cellulosic ethanol that qualifies by EPA’s
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Green Computing: Which shade of green are we? Introduction Introduction As consumers increase their use of computers and its peripherals‚ large Volume of such products find their way into the waste stream. To address Energy efficient computing
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emitted in completely different ways‚ they both harm living organisms. Air pollution is predominately emitted though the exhaust of motor vehicles and the combustion of fossil fuels‚ whereas water pollution is the result of industrial waste and environmental accidents. Our society knows that pollution is harmful and a serious problem for Earth but generally people dont care. Nevertheless everybody needs to contribute to prevention and pay attention to government control in the amount of material large
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list the Northern Spotted Owl as an endangered species‚ several environmental groups petitioned for the Department of the Interior to reconsider this decision. The reasoning behind the Department of the Interior’s failure to list the NSO was that it’s listing would interfere with a lucrative logging industry that already had several future projects approved by the DOI. Environmental groups felt that he logging projects in Washington State were being prioritized over the responsibility that the U.S.
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Not So Super Superfund Published: February 07‚ 1994 • Sign In to E-Mail • Print It is hard to think of a government program with a wider gulf between ambitions and results than Superfund‚ the program enacted in 1980 to clean up thousands of toxic waste dumps across America. The Clinton Administration now advances a promising plan to redo that law. With health care on the agenda‚ Congress may not have the political stamina to address Superfund. But it should; every day that the present law is
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With the Advent of consumerism on the rise‚ the American culture continues to buy‚ buy‚ buy. Whether it’s a new car or a bag of chips‚ we are constantly spending money on things we don’t need. Once these items become unnecessary in our daily lives‚ we throw them away. Every year‚ millions of items ranging from children toy’s to high tech laptops are deposed of in landfills. These items are then burned to create more space for never ending line of garbage. When landfills burn their trash‚ they
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repairs have been done to it‚ but that has only aided the damage from smog and traffic. The Roman Colosseum sits in the middle of a traffic circle in Rome. Repairs have been ongoing on the Colosseum and several sections have been rebuilt. In the United States civil war battle sites fight the growth of cities and malls. In some sites a malls form a boundary to the battle site. Natural forces also take their toll on historical sites. Mt. Rushmore is worked on because the granite cracks due to the snow
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The Foulness of Fracking Imagine waking up in the middle of the night and wanting a glass of water‚ you go to the tap and instead of fresh clean water you get yellow‚ cloudy‚ oily water that smells of chemicals. Would you drink it? Those that live near natural gas hydro-fractured wells have had to ask themselves that question. Hydraulic fracturing or fracking‚ as it’s commonly called‚ is a process of extracting natural gas from deep within the earth’s surface by drilling. Once a well is drilled
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