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Sulfur Oxides
Nitrogen Oxides
Carbon Monoxide
Particulates
Hydrocarbons
Oxidants (ozone)
Acid deposition
Synthetic compounds
radioactive substances
heat
primary vs secondary
natural vs human-made |
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located 10-30 miles above the Earth's surface
Protects life on Earth from harmful UV radiation |
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Created as a result of a chemical reaction between NOx and VOC
Harmful to human health and causes serious damage to plant life |
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| Regulates amount of the pollutant in the surroundnig |
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Polluters must use certain technology or practice
(BACT, RACT, MACT) |
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| Regulates the level of emissions allowed |
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| Best Available Control Technology |
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| Reasonably Available Control Technology |
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| Maximum Achievable Control Technology |
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National Ambient Air Quality Standards
Empowers the EPA administrator to set allowable pollution levels for specific pollutants |
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| Sulfur Dioxide, Nitrogen Dioxide, Particulate Matter, Carbon Monoxide, Oxygen(3) and Lead |
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| Alternative Policies to CAA |
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| Less polluting fuels; Battery-powered electric cars; Hybrid cars; Regulatory stick vs. consumer carrot; Emissions tax; Stiff inspections for polluting cars; Stricter standards in nonattainment areas |
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| Contributors to water Pollution |
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| Oxygen-demanding wasters; Plant nutrients; sediments; Toxic minerals and inorganic compounds; synthetic Organic Compounds (POPs); Radioactive wastes; Thermal discharges |
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| Point Sources vs Nonpoint Sources |
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Point - water pollution emanating from a specific source
Nonpoint - water pollution generated by spatially dispersed sources such as agriculture |
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| amount of contaminants in water at a single moment |
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| measured by adding up the total pollution discharge into a waterway over an extended period of time (annual) |
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| water that has percolated through waste and become contaminated with pollutants |
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| refers to the accumulation of substances, such as pesticides, or other organic chemicals in an organism |
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Clean Water Act of 1972
A.K.A. Federal water Pollution Control Act
Easy to enforce!!! |
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National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
requires a permit for every discharge of pollutants from point sources to waters |
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Safe Drinking Water Act
To provide for identification, monitoring, and control of contamination in finished water |
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| Food and Drug Administration |
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| Energy Policy Act of 2005 |
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| The act, described by proponents as an attempt to combat growing energy problems, changed US energy policy by providing tax incentives and loan guarantees for energy production of various types |
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Municipal Solid Waste
any solid, emi-solid, liquid or contained gaseous materials discarded from industrial, commercial, mining, or agricultural operations, and from community activities |
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| waste having the characteristics of ignitability, reactivity, toxicity, and/or corrosivity |
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| Methods of Waste Disposal |
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| Land; Deep well injection; Waterways and storm drains; Incineration; Recycling; Composting; Ocean dumping; Exportation |
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Toxic Substances Control Act
EPA has authority to ban chemicals |
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| Toxic Release Inventory under EPCRA |
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Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
generation, transportation, treatment, storage and disposal of hazardous waste |
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Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act
the focus is on disposal of waste |
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| Potentially Responsible Party |
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| Trivial; Utopian; Imperative; Intentional |
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| "Right of Property Ownership" |
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| Do people have the right to do whatever they please on land the own? |
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| Designation by type and density( zoning): residential; commercial; industrial; special-use |
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"taking"
State or local government expropriates private property for public use without an owner's consent |
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| a set of planning guidelines to prevent urban sprawl |
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| movement of soil, either by wind or by water, off of land and into lakes, rivers, streams, or oceans |
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agricultural land converted to non-agricultural uses
SEE CITY MARKET MODEL |
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| process of degrading productive land |
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Bureau of Land Management (DOI)
oversees the leftovers; "catch-all"; least valuable; oversees most land |
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U.S. Forest Service (DOA)
looks at forest as agricultural land for timber |
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National Park Service(DOI)
oversees land set aside as national parks or conserved/preserved lands |
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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (DOI)
not responsible for land but rather species on the land |
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Federal Land Managment and Policy Act of 1976
declares land remains in public ownership; BLM manages using land planning |
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| Multiple use; recreation; Fee Demonstration Project; Commercial Recreation Permits and Concessions; Fire Management; Roadless Areas |
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| Prescribed Burns; Prescribed Natural Fires; Fire Suppression |
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| Undeveloped land retaining its primeval character and influence, without permanent improvements or human habitation |
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Endangered Species Act
Convention of International Trade in Endangered Species and Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) |
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| "big picture" management that focuses on the combination of the interrekated parts of an ecosystem and manages the system holistically (rather than in individual pieces like ESA) |
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