... industrial growth in southern China. However, in China, they are struggling with the effects of air and water pollution as a direct result of industrialization without sustainable development. Industrial plants and human waste, due to the extreme urbanization caused by the industries, ... loss of species. As the environment and urban areas suffer from the affects of industrialization, so do the people. Illness due to atmospheric pollution plague the people in heavily populated and industrialized areas. Also, with increased economic activity, new classes of rich and poor are created, disru...

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... Resource protection, under environmental law, helps to maintain the environmental balance of public resources. This includes public lands and rivers; mineral resources; solid waste management; historic preservation; and water pollution, among other areas. The government has taken responsibility for the enactment of laws, as well as the enforcement, for acts that threaten the environment. The National Environmental Policy ... in violation of section 311(b)(3) of the Clean Water Act. The Clean Water Act of 1972 (CWA) was designed to help enforce preservation of water quality. It is the pr...

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... and environmentally conscious society, we begin to focus on things in our every day life that can be improved in order to resolve current pollution problems and future resource problems. A topic that specifically pertains to both of these issues is the use of fossil fuels to power automobiles. ... taken some action to control this problem by implementing The Clean Air Act in 1970. This act gives primary responsibility for mobile source pollution control to the Environmental Protection Agency. The EPA has made considerable success during the last thirty years in reducing carbon monoxide e...

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... the ozone layer in our atmosphere. Hydrogen is a better choice of fuel than gasoline to power automobiles because hydrogen burns cleanly to produce water vapor, has 2.8 times the power of gasoline per unit of volume, and is an everlasting substance. The most important issue concerning the ... the U.S. automakers: Start producing vehicles that are kinder to gods creation and we will urge the faithful to buy them." (Porretto 3D) pollution produced from internal combustion engines powered by petroleum-based fuels. These engines "emit significant amounts of air pollutants, air toxins, and car...

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... benefits about the Energy East Pipeline, there are some risks that come with it. In this content (TransCanada's Energy East Pipeline: What you need to know) the main concern is water, the reason being if ever there would be an environmental spill. Cleanups of these spills would easily cost more than 1 billion dollars. It would put clean drinking ... water at risk. The pipeline would cross many significant waterways that supply water to millions of people. These waterways include Shoal Lake, Trout Lake watershed, the Oxford Aquifer, the Rideau River, the Saint- John River basin and ... ...

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... into a common practice. However, offshore drilling is devastating to the environment in several ways. As a result of the equipment and methods used to extract the oil, high levels of pollution are released into the atmosphere, disturbing nearby ecosystems. Secondly, the high level of drilling is consistently depleting the earth's supply of many natural resources. Furthermore, organisms and animals in ... interfere with the oxygen balance of the surrounding marine environment. When mineral oil is combined with other drilling fluids it increases their oxygen uptake from the surrounding env...

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... vegetation), deposition of alkaline dust on tundra along roads, altering vegetation, local pollutant, haze and acid rain from nitrogen oxides, methane and particulate emissions, and the contamination of soil and water in the case of oil or fuel spills. They argue that only 8% of the Artic National Wildlife Refuge would be considered for exploration. Fact: The ANWR is the largest unit ... sites spread across the Refuge landscape, connected by an infrastructure of roads, pipelines, power plant, processing facilities, loading docks, dormitories, airstrips, gravel pits, utility lines and land...

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... and other biomass fuels in order to make heat. The heat from burning wood can be used for a number of processes from heating water to smelting ore. The most common use of biomass for transportation was the use of wood to fire steam engines which could power anything from ... The very nature of biomass energy requires that it be burned and even if the organic material is low-carbon, it will still emit some pollution and carbon emissions. Another disadvantage is that biomass is neither as economical nor efficient as the burning of fossil fuels. In other words it ... the main components ca...

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... mostly likely take a beating. Hydraulic fracturing, or hydrofracking, is used to get the gas flowing. This process can take over a million gallons of water per well. During the process, some of the water is contaminated and must be disposed of. If shale gas wells fade faster than expected, hydrofracking will have to occur more often, which will contaminate ... even more water (Urbina). A study conducted by Duke University revealed that fracking polluted drinking water with methane gas, which is not necessarily harmful in drinking water but can explode at high concentrations (The Wall Str...

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... the annual growth of plants used to produce ethanol. Ethanol is low in reactivity and high in oxygen content, making it an effective tool in reducing the levels of ozone pollution. Similarly, ethanol reduces carbon monoxide and other toxic hydrocarbon like benzene emissions. Ethanol does not prematurely combust when exposed to heat and pressure. This advantage increases the performance of vehicles ... and lowers the amount of pollutant emissions. Ethanol's high solubility means it will disperse rapidly and will evaporate quickly when spilt on land. The contamination of drinking water is...

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... any fossil fuel that has been "reformed" can be used to produce a hydrogen-rich gas. Methanol is a common fuel choice. For the most part, the fuel cell's only emission is water vapor, giving it potential as the cleanest hybrid power unit alternative. Efficient, quiet, and reliable, fuel cells are predicted to demonstrate energy conversion efficiencies up to 50%, relatively high in ... comparison to the 20%-25% efficiency of standard gasoline engines. Battery-powered vehicles give off virtually no pollution and offer one of the best options for reducing motor vehicle emissions in pollute...

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... composition of substances. An example of a chemical reaction is formation of rust (iron oxide), which is produced when oxygen in the air reacts with iron. Most scientists agree that if pollution and other environmental deterrents continue at their present rates, the result will be irreversible damage to the ecological cycles and balances in nature upon which all life depends. Scientists warn ... of the Thames and other rivers, and London no longer suffers the heavy smogs caused by industrial pollutants. Japan has some of the world's strictest standards for the control of water and air p...

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... it can "be used to charge storage batteries aboard boats, to operate lighthouses, used in remote areas for pumping water either for cattle or irrigation, and to supply power for emergency telephones on highways. "(Bortman) All of which, do not cause air pollution, appealing to the people who strongly believe in global warming. Even though I personally don't believe in global warming, it ... ...

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