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    the environment in an extremely poor shape. Several types of pollution coat the Earth in garbage, oils, smog, etc. Indoor air pollution consists of chemical cleaners, cigarette smoke and butts, car and as well as factory exhaust. Exhaust and smoke release elements into the air that create smog, fog, and haze are created. When combined with moisture in the air acid rain is then created. Natural disasters contribute to air pollution with volcanic eruption ash and sulfur dioxide. The burning of

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    five-mile-long pile of trash. The heavy rains from the hurricanes this past fall is where this trash has come from. Guatemala’s government doesn’t have a formal garbage collection. Roatán Island is located about fifteen miles off the edge of Guatemala. Trash pollution is becoming worse and worse in the Caribbean. Trash in ocean is harming more than 600 species worldwide. From what we can tell from the photos of the trash in Roatán that the trash is anything from plastic bags to leather. Guatemalan people aren’t

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    Environmental Pollution

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    Even though many people do not believe in global warming or the fact that pollution contributes to global warming, the author can provide evidence of this pollution in the air, water, and soil by using scientific studies. With our assigned readings we saw just that. Many of the authors try to make the same point, just with different approaches, like how the environment is damaged and how that damage affects us. The first example are herbicides that can be harmful to soil and agriculture farms. For

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    Air Pollution In Texas

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    invented almost a century ago to make life easier with getting around, car pollution has been our number one source of air pollution and has significantly impacted our environment due to how accessible they are. Arising problems such as air pollution, global warming, and health issues of americans, we have to come to the understanding that our environment is at risk if the amount of car pollution continues to increase. Air pollution is a major problem in our world because it affects everything in the environment

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    learn about how to use their car efficiently. Our website is called Greenriding and there are some games and quizzes that teach you about air pollution. During this game you earn points and you can trade it in for coupons and the coupon is sent to the person by email, and comes in a printable PDF. These coupons can be traded in for things that help air pollution (free smog checks, free tire inflation, free shuttle rides, and free tune ups). The reason our proposal is mainly focused on learning lessons

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    Pollution is a serious global issue that has occurred for as long as humans have inhabited the planet. There are several different varieties of pollution, as well as an abundance of materials, both natural and synthetic, that the earth is contaminated with. Shifrin (2005) states: “To date, wastes remain a fact of life and there are only three places to dispose of wastes-air, water, or land. Waste management always involves tradeoffs” (p. 676). Even though Shifrin is correct in his analysis, it does

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    Air Pollution

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    Introduction Air Pollution pollution in my community has received very little concern or not given much attention. In essay will focus much in my community where I live, therefore it will not touch much details as per country per se but what pollutants have been identified in my community. The informational used in this paper is based on oral interview with local environmental health officers at our local clinic and my on observation on the prevailing situation on pollution. To start with, over

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    Land Pollution in Ibadan

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    TOWN PAPER ON LAND POLLUTION IN IBADAN, THE CAUSES, EFFECTS, REMEDIAL MEASURES AND HOW EFFECTIVE THEY ARE. COMPILED BY ONIFADE SADIAT T MATRIC NO. 073862 TO BE SUBMITTED TO THE DEARTMENT OF URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING FACULTY OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES LADOKE AKINTOLA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, OGBOMOSHO. COURSE CODE: URP 305 COURSE TITLE: PLANNING STUDIO III LECTURERS IN CHARGE: TPL A.O AKINDELE TPL E.A TOYOBO MARCH, 2010 CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION LAND POLLUTION Land Pollution is the degradation

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    air pollution. The particulates can be emitted by the process of knocking down or disturbing the building letting the particulate free and get into the air reducing the quality. If the workers do not manage what they are doing correctly, it can have harmful impacts on not only their health but the communities and the environment. At times enforcing the laws and good practice can be expensive and very disruptive. The legislation includes things like Identifying activities that create pollution, Environmental

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    issue that has to do with this bill is the environment. This bill from 2015 says that water and air pollution is harmful to the Florida atmosphere. The bill says the “public policy of this to conserve waters,” and that “air pollution control programs” are now considered necessities in Florida. The policy would be quite pricey because they need to find a new, cleaner way to change factory pollution. Although, spending the money would be worth it because we would have cleaner air and water. A big

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