The Epa's Mercury Problem By Susan Brown

In her essay “The Obligation to Endure”, Rachel Carson alerts the public to the dangers of modern industrial pollution. She writes about the harmful consequences of lethal materials being released into the environment. She uses horrifying evidence, a passionate tone, audience, and the overall structure of her essay to express to her readers that the pollution created by man wounds the earth. There are many different ways that pollution can harm the environment, from the nuclear explosions discharging toxic chemicals into the air, to the venomous pesticides sprayed on plants that kills vegetation and sickens cattle. The adjustments to these chemicals would take generations. Rachel

Jobs and protecting the environment, important or not? George Will wrote his essay, “What Price Clean Air?” to convey the message that most of the Navajo Nation run and work at the power plants in Arizona, but as the growing change in protecting the environment, those Native Americans are forced to alter their livelihoods. George Will directs his essay to the American people, to persuade them to help find a change. Using the best equipment and spending billions of dollars on new technology may be affected by the uncertain environmental movement. With ethos, logos, and pathos, George Will effectively uses the rhetorical devices to convey his argument about the social and economic damage brought on by the federal government.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) guidelines for safe exposure level to mercury are one-tenth of a microgram (mcg) per kilogram of body weight. Children received about 237 mcg of Thimerosal by two years old with the first 200 mcg administered before six months old. Thimerosal is an ethylmercury preservative (about 49.6 percent mercury by weight) used in vaccines to add shelf life to the vaccine. Thimerosal is about 50 times more toxic due to it being injected, there is no blood–brain barrier in infants, mercury clings to brain cells and nerves, and infants do not create bile therefore the mercury cannot be excreted. PDD-NOS are the largest group and are characterized by four other different disorders. The four disorders

“Environmental wackos” and “anti-environmentalists”, according to Edward O. Wilson’s The Future of Life, both have a hidden agenda. He claims that these hidden agendas are rooted in personal interest and ideas which only benefit them and not the people, nor the environment. Through the use of absurdity and irony with a sarcastic tone, Wilson satirizes these agendas that make the environmentalists and people-first critics unproductive.

such as trout and burbot (Hynes 1970). Warmer temperatures and changes in water quantity could therefore affect species composition and survival in the oil sands region.

The United States Environmental Protection Agency is an agency of the U.S. federal government which was created for the purpose of protecting human health and the environment by writing and enforcing regulations based on laws passed by Congress. The EPA was proposed by President Richard Nixon and began operation on December 2, 1970, after Nixon signed an executive order. The order establishing the EPA was ratified by committee hearings in the House and Senate. The agency is led by its Administrator, who is appointed by the president and approved by Congress. The current administrator is Gina McCarthy. The EPA is not a Cabinet department, but the administrator is normally given cabinet rank.

My ocean issue is Mercury pollution in fish. Mercury pollution in fish is an issue because it causes defects in human and wildlife development and function. If mercury polluted fish is consumed by a pregnant woman or one that is breastfeeding it causes many problems for the unborn baby. According to nrdc.org “more than 75,000 babies are born each year with a greater risk of learning disabilities because of their mothers’ mercury exposure” those disibililaties include learning and Intellectual dissorders. Wildlife is affected by this as well. If birds consume the fish it become very hard for them to either care for their eggs or rarely lay eggs at

Regardless of all clarifications, in 2001, the Organization of Solution reasoned that there was no confirmation of a causal relationship between the MMR antibody and autism(Stratton,2001) (Honda, et al, 2005) Poisonous chemicals or metals in our modem surroundings could be identified with a mental imbalance, no doubt as a contributing element in hereditarily helpless individuals(Grether, 2006)

Mercury is a chemical element of heavy silver and white metal that is liquid at ordinary temperatures. The main use of mercury is the making of thermometers and barometers. Sometimes mercury is used as an electrode in the production of batteries. Mercury can be very toxic and harmful to the human body. If inhaled it can cause destruction to the nervous, digestive, and immune systems and can even be fatal. Mercury is found in many natural sources such as volcanos, forest fires, and fossil fuels (coal and petroleum). Studies show power plants to be the largest source of mercury in the United States. Humans can prevent mercury contamination in several ways. When shopping for items such as thermometers, try to get them “mercury free.”

Mercury is extremely dangerous to humans due to its extreme conditions not suitable to human life. Missions to Mercury must be conducted with infallible safety standards to prevent incidents such as what has happened in the past. These safety standards must consider all possible circumstances in which measures must be taken. When doing missions on Mercury safety should be the number one priority.

Passage one talks about the untruthfulness of environmental popularizers. Consequently, passage one antagonizes environmental popularizers. Passage one opens with the argument that environmental popularizers often give the public with one-sided information. This information fails to represent the original, truthful information neither formally nor accurately. The author claims that the occurrence or absence of environmental calamities often confute predictions made by environmental popularizers. Take Lake Erie for argument’s sake; scientists predicted that Lake Erie and the ocean would dry up by now. On the contrary, Lake Erie and the ocean still remain. In the last paragraph of passage one, the author connotes that environmental popularizers’

Common pollution depicts the separating of the indigenous living space through the exhaustion of focal points, the pulverizing of natural systems and the decimation of plant and creature species. It is caused by brisk or circumlocutory human movement, and has reached out on an exceptionally essential level since the Industrial Revolution. The United Nations has recorded ecological defilement in its essential ten once-finished of strange state dangers looked by the planet to date. Organic corruption is caused in a gathering of courses, transcendently by human activities, however standard occasions can correspondingly understand the weakening of a situation. Seismic tremors, volcanoes and remarkable precipitation occasions would all have the ability to affect the earth in negative ways. Despite the way that these occasions can cause characteristic corruption they are a trademark event, and consequently different natural systems have changed as per their advantages. The traverse of these unsettling impacts is likewise unobtrusive when showed up distinctively in connection to the measure of harm the earth has kept up in light of human activities. The extraction of general assets and the creation of waste and various poisonous substances have extraordinarily ruined a noteworthy bundle of the planet's natural gatherings. Mining, deforestation, non-feasible power source consuming and contamination are only a piece of the human exercises that have incite the ecological debasement.

sensitive to mercury toxic effects, being on the top of food webs (Barbaros et al,

Heavy metal contamination is a major environmental hazard worldwide, leading to losses in agricultural yields as well as causing harmful effect on human health entering through the food chain. Although they exist naturally, toxic level of heavy metals occurs in the environment or soil due to mainly industrial and agricultural operations. Chromium (Cr) is the seventh most abundant element on earth and second largest contributor of ground water, soil and sediment contamination [1]. Release of Cr containing compounds to the environment is mainly due to electroplating, leather tanning, metal finishing, corrosion control and pigment manufacturing industries [2].2) Annually about 3×104, 1.42×105 and 8.96×105 tons of Cr are released to the

People can come in contact with mercury in a number of ways. There is increased risk of mercury exposure in the dental, health and chemical industries. People are also at risk of consuming an unsafe amount of mercury if they eat certain things in excess amounts, such as more than 6 ounces of albacore tuna per week, or over 12 ounces of fish like shrimp, canned tuna, salmon, pollock or catfish. Exposure to mercury can cause brain damage, kidney damage, lung damage and various digestive system problems (McCoy). Perhaps the person most vulnerable to mercury poisoning is the pregnant woman and her unborn fetus. Trauma caused to infants and children as a result of