Regulatory Interventions

Air pollution are impacting the environment, and it is imperative that laws are enforced to help build and sustain a better air quality. Air pollutants can be in the form of particulate matter which can be very harmful to our health. Stimulation to our eyes, nose, throat, and breathing infections such as bronchitis and pneumonia are all short-term effects. You’re head might hurt, you might want to puke, and you might have allergic reactions. Short-term air pollution can put people with asthma and emphysema in a worse condition. Long lasting breathing disease, lung cancer, heart disease, and even damage to your brains, nerves, livers, or kidneys are all long-term effects. If you’re exposed to air pollution continuously, it would affect children’s lungs and may complicate medical conditions for the elders. Some people argue and deny the bad air problem. They claim that pollution may actually be good for the Earth. The hazy weather caused by pollution has made plants far more productive when it comes to scrubbing greenhouse gasses out of the air. Pollution has turned plants into better carbon dioxide processing machines. But this is bad for our own health. Pollution is causing global warming which leads to massive ice land melting. Polar bears and other animals that live there are losing there habitats and even dying. Melting ice could also lead to more sea water which would bury some cities or land near the coastal areas. There is already a tremendous amount of people on this planet. If our land decreases, and our population continues to increase, some people would have to start living on another planet; therefore, making it a priority to address the areas

Improved air quality wasn’t a subject of national concern until the mid 1900s. After decades of coal burning, unregulated gas emissions from cars and the excessive burning of fossil fuels, people started noticing bad air quality as a hazard to their lives. Over several decades, after seeing the costly effects air pollution was having on the environment and people’s health, interest groups like the Friends of The Earth club and the influences of Theodore Roosevelt and Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring finally came together to persuade the government to enforce legislation that would reduce air pollution. Because of these efforts, the policies of the Clean Air Act of 1963 and the Motor Vehicle Pollution Control Act of 1965, that aimed to control air pollution and raise air quality standards, helped create the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on December 2, 1970. Since then, the EPA has passed more air quality improvement acts, and amendments to previous acts passed, to increase restrictions on air pollutants, with their main policy concern being the Clean Air Act. Improved air quality acts imposed by the EPA have been successful in cleaning the United States’ air quality by reducing ground-level ozone pollution and reducing emissions, allowing for a decrease in pollution related deaths/illnesses and a better standard of living. The EPA, through regulations and the Clean Air Act, has delivered it’s promise to improve air quality in the United States.

The EPA and Regulations Regarding the Economy The world of 2015 is centralized on industrialization, and advancements that improve the manner in which a product can be produced to turn the greatest profit. While many of these improvements in speed and quantity benefits society, we cannot turn a blind eye to

Air pollution is the dispersion of particulates, biological molecules, or other harmful materials into the atmosphere, causing diseases, allergies and death to humans, damage to other living organisms such as animals and food crops or the natural or built environments (Brunekreef & Holgate, 2002; Nowak, Crane, & Stevens, 2006). Polluted air directly or indirectly may cause or be attributed to an increase in fatality or serious unwellness and decline humans state of health (Kampa & Castanas, 2008). For example, in Canada, the Ontario Medical Association has attributed 9500 premature deaths per year and evaluates increased costs of health care ($506.64 M) and missed productivity ($374.18) as a result of air pollution (Rowe, 2011). Thus, employment

Matthew Goins Professor Buckner UAEC 200: Gateway 23 May 2016 Why the Clean Air Act is the greatest act ever passed Although rarely discussed and unknown, the clean air act of 1970 and its amendments has helped the United States and its people greatly in the past 40-plus years. The act was originally created to

Air pollution is caused by the combustion of motor vehicle fuel. This fills the air with small, unnoticeable particles of soot and dust (Reese). This is a major health concern for the entire world population. Air pollution causes immediate health problems including cardiovascular illness and stress to the lungs. There are also serious long term, permanent health effects such as accelerated lung aging, brain damage, learning disabilities, and overall shortened life span (Reese and Spare the Air). These issues are already affecting lives today, therefore can only further affect the lives of our children and generations after them. In order to sustain human life, we need to take this issue into our own hands to protect the planet. This is as simple as creating standards of how much greenhouse gasses can be emitted per city, even per country.

IV. Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act In the late 1970s, the contamination of the Love Canal neighborhood in New York with numerous toxic chemicals inspired creation of a comprehensive statute to handle issues of contamination, the cleanup and compensation liability that stem from contamination, and the resulting health risks.

As an individual who is passionate about medicine, my position as the Mayor of Hamilton will prioritize the health of the citizens in my precinct. Due to the fact that the well-being of others is an essential component of my ethical conscience, I would strive to enact a policy which protects and preserves the populace. The presence of a booming industrial sector within the city will motivate me to place a strong emphasis on the atmospheric contaminants that are currently being spewed from these facilities. The quality of the air citizens breathe has a direct correlation to their respiratory health, and consequently, without strict regulations designed to control industrial emissions, the population will continue to incur a series of detrimental

Regulatory bodies in a nuclear organization play a vital role in monitoring, assessing, and promoting safety culture in a nuclear facilities. They are held accountable to issue regulations, safety procedures, and safety polices to be complied with by the operating facilities. The responsibility of regulatory inspectors are to monitor the overall organization safety performance, participate in conducting safety self-assessments, participate in inspecting and testing the integrity of the critical safety systems, monitor the operators’ behaviors and actions, and take immediate actions whenever they feel the plant safety is jeopardized. Regulatory inspectors should be technically competent and trained in handling safety culture issues, safety

According to Paehlke, R. (1990), regulation is the policy tool of choice when it concerns environmental protection. Regulation is frequently essential even though there is a collection of policy tools obtainable. Non-regulatory methods might in some situations, be more suitable or aid as beneficial enhancements to an operational governing system.

Climate Change Regulation Paper Climate changes on a daily, weekly, monthly and yearly basis. The purpose of this paper is to discuss government regulation of climate change as well to explain various viewpoints on climate change, and explain and justify, briefly, my viewpoint on the issue of climate change. This paper will

They point out that penalties for excessive pollution or excessive workplace accidents would be imposed only after substantial damage had been done. They add that taxes on pollution or unsafe work environments could be passed along to consumers as higher prices, in which case they would not be much of a deterrent. Moreover, it would take a large bureaucracy to carefully monitor the level of pollution discharge and a complex calculation to determine the level tax necessary to encourage businesses not to

Interactive regulation is the process whereby at least two individuals co-manage and dynamically balance ANS arousal in real time. Just as self-regulation is more developmentally advanced than autoregulation, interactive regulation is more advanced than self-regulation. Developmentally speaking, interactive play by infants with their primary caregivers forms the foundation for mutuality and reciprocity. When interactive play does not take place, infants turn instead toward autoregulation as an adaptation to interpersonal neglect. They do so at great cost, remaining in exile from the interactive world as they grow older. Over time, reliance upon autoregulation consolidates into a one-person psychological system of

Air, is one of the most substantial source to mankind and our planet. While it exists, so does everything else along. However, in today’s epidemic, there has been certain factors that have increased in understanding whether the air we breathe today is healthy or not? Is it doing more harm than we thought? In other words, the health risks against air pollution have risen in the past few decades; all from what you may ask? Well, it could be for various factors and evaluations; either environmental or materialistic. Pollution is a major public health crisis in the world. (Friis, 2012). This is one of the conflicts that contribute to various aspects of an individual’s life, whether they may realize it or not. In this paper will include the sources that cause pollution with the effects it cause as well as policies on the regulation of air pollution.

It may sound very sad, but according to World Health Organisation approximately 250,000 additional deaths per year will be caused due to negative effects on people’s health from climate changes. Today in developed countries one of the main objectives of governments is to maintain sustainable growth of the economies, without causing any environmental damage. It could be very stressful for the governments to find the best way of achieving the result. Government should intervene because firms generally have almost no incentives to reduce pollution since there is no direct cost that they must pay. There are variety of control instruments that could be used by the government, in this essay will be discussed: environmental taxes, subsidies, standards and market of tradable permits. Today economist try to give monetary value to the environmental damage. Each policy is designed to reduce the level of pollution, by creating economic incentive for the polluters to reduce the pollution by either cutting production or changing production process. Sometimes it is difficult to choose which policy is the most efficient, by introducing following criteria we can examine the strengths and weaknesses of each policy.