The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, more commonly known as Superfund, was signed into law on December 11, 1980. It is designed to clean up the most polluted, complex, uncontrolled or abandoned sites contaminated by hazardous waste. It authorizes the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to find who contaminated these sites and compel them to clean them up. If a responsible party cannot be found the EPA is authorized to clean up the site on it’s own utilizing funds from a specially set up trust. Celebrating it’s 30 years in operation the “Superfund” has completed construction of clean up remedies on 67.5% of sites on the National Priorities List.
GO’s Stores, Inc. 900 Speight Ave. Waco, TX 76798 November 10, 2008 Ms. Alice Stevens 1302 Redwood Circle Waco, TX 76712 Dear Ms. Stevens: You will be pleased to know that GO’s Stores has taken great steps to resolve your recent troubles. After reading your claim about having problems with tainted gasoline two weeks ago, GO’s Stores has decided to reimburse you for your damages. Due to severe weather and an operation mishap, the gasoline at our Bellmead location was contaminated. In order to receive full reimbursement, please provide receipts from your gasoline purchase at our Bellmead location as well as receipts from the other companies that you have used to repair your vehicle. Because GO’s Stores is dedicated to providing
Roberts confirmed at the proposal, if such a problem came about the situation would be handled immediately. Hiring the people of Sparksville would aide in the unemployment sector and help them to own their vehicle which was the Hybrid. Epic Generated Automotive Industry was to create one thousand jobs for the citizens of Sparksville which was a definite number. The Oil Refinery was the third proposal, this proposal was I good yet I had to think about the sustainability I wanted for the city, and the smog that would be harmful to the city. The Oil Refinery was willing to create a minimum of five hundred jobs, the jobs could not be justifiable for the citizens of Sparksville.
The toxic waste can be managed by treating it well and burying it underground. Also new technology has made it possible to run Nuclear Power plants with thorium. To use thorium the Nuclear Power Plant needs to be driven on the Accelerator Driven System. This system may have a large price tag but it will pay itself back within fifty years or so. Thorium compared to Uranium creates less toxic waste and also unlike Plutonium (the by-product of uranium) the toxic waste created by Thorium will only takes 500 years to be declared safe.
“By distributing locally, [Wal-Mart] said it saved 112,000 gallons of diesel and total freight expense of more than $1.4 million” (Hoffman, 2008, p. 1). One direction to help stifle such threats through added technology is through Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) chips. These are chips that are embedded on products packaging for the purposes of tracking. This will help to mitigate any losses due to shrinkage and other factors such as obsolescence. Also, “These embedded microchips let employees know when to restock empty shelves and track in-store advertising” (Joseph, 2009, p.
Mann Gulch Fire On August 5th, 1949 what was thought to be a routine day in the lives of 16 smokejumpers, will be remembered within the U.S. Forest service as well as firefighting history. The Mann Gulch fire occurred in Montana’s Helena National Forest, and prior to this incident, no smokejumper had ever died fighting a wildland fire. The fire, which was caused by lightning strike, was originally spotted at 12:25 pm. Due to the remote location and lack of roads; smokejumpers were dispatched to the incident. Forman Wagner (Wag) Dodge and his crew made their jump a few hours after the call.
But with all the problems that face Chelyabinsk, the people still dump liquid radioactive waste into the lake every year. The situation at Lake Karachay is not getting any
Some of these benefits of mountain top removal include, boosting of local economy, improving the wild life and environment, and creating flat land for many different sites including airports and golf courses (Mountain top Mining). These arguments are not shared by that of scholars and authors, but can be found on numerous mountaintop mining websites. The levels of coal that our country uses ever day means that we have to find the most efficient way of mining coal that we
Vegetarianism is one of the healthiest diets, so it will boost your over all health. If you cut meat out of your diet then you eliminate the chances of food borne illnesses related to contaminated fish and meat products. Your chances of having heart disease and cancer are significantly lowered as well. Factory farming is an epidemic that is destroying our environment. Forget about buying a hybrid car to do your part.
After the TVA report was released, Triana mayor Clyde Foster, concerned that the local citizens might have been contaminated, requested that residents be checked for signs of DDT in their bodies. The Center for Disease Control, based in Atlanta, Georgia, was sent to test the residents. Initially, twelve inhabitants were tested for DDT in their blood. The results showed that not only was DDT present in their blood, but that the levels were three times the normal levels of DDT found in other case studies. The compared case studies were of workers at DDT plants, yet none of the residents tested in Triana had ever worked at such a facility.