Should the EPA Be Doing More to Fight Environmental Injustice? The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) should be doing more to fight the environmental injustice spreading throughout our country. Right now with all of the budget cuts that are forced to happen due to the recession and need for jobs‚ it probably won’t happen for awhile. The injustice due to toxic dumping and other pollutants are not being handled as swiftly as they should be
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Born after seeing the need of government intervention to regulate and enforce federal environmental laws‚ Richard Nixon signed the National environmental policy act on January 1‚ 1970. By the summer of 1970 Nixon submitted Reorganization Plan Number Three to Congress; this plan called for a single entity to govern the NEPA and thus the EPA came to be. The EPA inherited environmental charges that had been given to other agencies like the Department of Health‚ Education‚ and Welfare. The charges included
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Fighting Environmental Injustice Crystal Rainey SCI 207 Dependence of Man on the Environment Richard Hoagland March 30‚ 2011 Fighting Environmental Injustice Our envirment has been poorly treated by humans for years. It should be everyones job to help take care of our enviroment. Taking care of our enviroment and trying to make our environment healthier is a big job and is something everyone care partake in‚ but who fights for enviromental injustice. The Environmental Protection Agency or
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Environmental crises are distinguished by rapid and largely unexpected changes in environmental quality that are di¢ cult if not impossible to reverse. Examples would be major extinctions and significant degradations of an ecosystem. The world is facing a very serious environmental crisis. Key environmental problems include air pollution‚ the destruction of the ozone layer‚ vast quantities of toxic waste‚ massive levels of soil erosion‚ the possible exhaustion of key natural resources such as oil
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Even though racism is and has always been an issue‚ we don’t often think about all the ways it can affect people of color. One example of this is environmental justice and racism‚ this is where corporations dump environmentally hazardous or degraded elements‚ such as toxic waste‚ pollution and urban decay near low-income or minority communities (Environmental Racism 2012‚ 1). It’s another unjust way African Americans have been and still continue to be treated. Many families have grown up in danger of
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Environmental injustice is a serious issue in America‚ and its effects are being brought to light by a large amount of scientific studies. Raquel Pinderhughes describes environmental injustice as “exposure to toxins which occurs through pesticides in food‚ heavy metals‚ synthetic chemicals‚ plastic residues‚ pesticides‚ and other chemical products in the water‚ and toxic chemicals in the air and soil” which has been shown to be more common in minority populations. In fact‚ the large amount of instances
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The Birth of EPA The EPA is an organization whose purpose is to preserve and protect the environment that we live in. EPA stands for Environmental Protection Agency and it is one of the main reasons that our planet has survived thus far. EPA was primarily created due to many Americans concerns about the deterioration conditions of the water‚ air‚ and land. EPA has done a lot for this planet‚ but one of the main concerns that it still has to deal with is our air pollution. For many years‚ raw
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the offender not to receive the full punishment he or she deserves and has a better chance of remaining free in our society where they are more than likely to reoffend. I am sure the workplace will understand your situation and you will not be penalized for missing any days of work.
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controversy that exists within the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is based on how well they can react and respond to a crisis. Using examples such as Flint‚ Michigan’s lead introduction into the drinking water system‚ the EPA is put to the test on not only how well they can contain the situation‚ but also how they respond and react to the situation at hand. This article was written by Rebecca Leber‚ a political news editor‚ where she focused on climate and environmental policies. Leber is a liberal
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an injustice being committed against them with regards to unequal safe resource distribution. However‚ environmental injustice does in fact exist in Canada‚ and is most visible among the country’s First Nations populations. Environmental injustice is one example of how indigenous communities have been treated in an unacceptable manner by the Canadian government for many years. One notable aspect of this injustice is the unequal access to safe and clean water within
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