The Importance Of So Public Policy 403

Explain the justifications for and goals of public policy, please discuss factors inherent in government that provides opportunities for public/Government failure?

The 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.

However, the structure of American ecological property rights directly threatens Locke’s tenets of property. Environmental policy in the United States allows manufacturers and industrial plants to routinely release toxic chemicals into the environment, endangering the lives, health, and by extension, liberty and labor, of citizens. In 1972, Congress passed the Clean Waters Act, and in 1990, Congress re-wrote the Clean Waters Act to further regulate air pollution. Although noble in purpose, this legislation has been only partially implemented and haphazardly enforced. President Obama, recognizing the dangers of toxic waste, implemented the Clean Water Rules, a series of executive orders designed to remove mercury from sewage, limit the release of arsenic, lead, mercury, and cadmium from power plants, control pesticide leakage, and prohibit the dumping of coal waste into bodies of water (Gleick). However, President Trump has acted to rescind all of these protections. This action threatens Americans, predominantly those in poor and urban areas, and violates Locke’s theory of property protection by endangering the lives of thousands of citizens. President Trump’s policies most directly threaten property by facilitating the release of mercury and pesticides.

Homeowners that water grass may require large amounts of fertilizer that contribute to high levels of nitrates in the aquifer, a major source of drinking water. Water containing nitrates contribute to algae growth and can endanger plants and wildlife in the springs. Lawns with landscaping with non-native plants may also require daily watering and frequent pesticides to keep them healthy and disease-free. Nearly half of all water withdrawn for our supply is used only to water lawns and landscaping. Population increase in Florida has led to more to transforming rural areas and uninhabited land into housing, shopping centers, and buildings. Pavement and roads prevent rainwater absorption into the aquifer and increase run-off of chemicals and other waste. Agriculture also requires chemicals to kill insects and thus absorbed into the ground into our drinking water. Dairy farms produce a lot of animal waste along with the pesticides and chemicals used to maintain the livestock and irrigation that also enter our supply of drinking water. BMP, or best management practices, include water conservation. Humans have a major impact on water contamination and should use caution so that our water is preserves. Contribution efforts on our part are reducing the water usage for lawn care and fertilizers, indoor water

Public Policy is the way that our Executive branch of government help maintain the order of the country as well as the needs of its citizens. Of course, no one system can be individually perfect and solve all issues. But the public policies in the United States have been molded on off racial prejudices in the past, and off legacy racism in the present. Discrimination that affects the racial dynamic of most urban cities in the nation. In this course we have discussed the necessity for public policy and the ways in which it affects this nation. Public Policy -our government and the citizens that have an impact through voting- help shape the economic and social system for the United States. To go more into depth, that means that education, employment, housing, health(care), our communities, and the criminal justice system are all impacted by the decisions made by our government.

As part of CSUN’s Public Policy event hosted by the Marilyn Magaram Center (MMC), I had the opportunity to meet and greet guests at the registration table and assist them signing in. We had a large number of participants that were able to assist during the 8am to 3pm event which included more than our 150 pre-registered participants. The purpose of this event was to advocate for a healthy and sustainable environment for future generations to enjoy. I also had the opportunity to learn more about the major nutrition and health policies at the federal, local, state, and local level.

Oh America, the land of the free and the home of the brave where we’re run by big time corporations and the individual voice isn’t listened to. Environmental problems worldwide have been an ever growing problem based on our ignorant attitudes towards hazardous waste and an increase of CO2 being released by big time corporations. There are only so many things the public can do to change the spatial limitations of environmental destruction, yet governments care less about the environment and more about the money they make from destroying the environment. Humans are essentially the parasites of this world. In the movie “In Our Water”, Frank Kaler emphasizes his concern for the water pollution in South Brunswick and how getting help from local, county, state, and federal governments is like asking if Rutgers can give you free tuition for being an ordinary student. Frank Kaler’s emphasis on “making it more expensive to pollute than not to pollute” is a very strong solution to maintain the environment, yet to do this would be extremely hard from a political point of view because the public would have to pay more for electricity and other utilities. When Frank Kaler went to different levels of government in seek of help, he was told that they didn’t know what the problem was and told him to go ask someone else (run around strategy), which is what happens a lot to environmentalists seeking answers from the government.

The Clean Water Act’s centerpiece regulatory tools are emission limits and ambient standards that are enveloped in a permitting system setting technology-based performance standards implemented by state and federal agencies to achieve EPA-determined air quality levels. The ambient standards under the CAA manifest as air quality levels for criteria air pollutants, referred to as National Ambient Air Quality Standards (“NAAQS”) and developed by the EPA. The primary NAAQS are set based on health concerns and must be set at a level

When making public policy decisions, policy makers must face a world with imperfect information and a finite amount of resources. Both of these realities put limitations on how effectively a policymaker can make people’s lives better off. Obviously, it is impossible for anyone to perfectly predict how a certain policy will play out when it is enacted. This includes policymakers, who despite their noble goals of increasing the well-being of society, can only make an educated guess about the effects a policy will have. Factors such as the fickleness of human nature or hidden information creates uncertainties that are hard to address when making policy. For example, in 1929 the causes of the Great Depression were not fully understood, but

deteriorate. States are required by the Clean Water Act to clean up polluted waterways, and that

With an already incredibly small percentage of water available to drink (about 1%), the issue of water quality came into focus. In the 1970’s, a “Green Revolution” raised concerns about the possible pollution of the drinking water supply. In 1972, the federal government adopted the Clean Water Act with its main goals being to “eliminate the discharge of pollutants, maintain the policy that protects the public from cancer-causing pollutants and other toxic poisons, maintain the concept that industry must use the best available technology to control pollution, and to provide an adequate funding for publicly owned treatment plans” (EPA). These goals were established for the sole purpose of keeping a close eye on the quality of America’s water. This Act was the first major step towards controlling the nation’s pollution problems with reference to water. The EPA set up 4 standards to water quality. They are as follows: “Designated uses of the water body, such as recreation, water supply, etc, water quality criteria to protect designated uses, an anti-degradation policy to maintain and protect existing uses and high quality waters, and general policies addressing implementation issues such as variances” (EPA). These standards are in place throughout the country, and the better they are enforced, the likelihood that water ways will not suffer from pollution

Public policy has a tremendous impact on all of society’s constituents; accordingly, it is vital for the same to understand and contribute to the policy making process. In spite of this, present day data shows an underwhelming amount of personage contributing, or even voting in any part of the process. Such trends point to a future that is a reflection of a past in which justice, equality, and liberty are not a natural right. The United States of America was founded upon such principles of democracy as per an ethical social contract in which the government served the people’s best interests for a common good, yet how can an entity adequately serve a master that lacks the knowledge necessary to achieve aforementioned. As per Newton’s laws of physics “any action has an equal and opposite reaction”; public policy creates ripples in society that affect individual lives both consciously and as a byproduct. Consequently, it is of outmost importance to understand public policy, and the effects they have on all aspects of society. To achieve such a task, I believe that one must first understand its background, purpose, effects, and most importantly, intricacy.

The reasons initiating these legal changes are to conserve clean water for human consumption and to preserve wildlife as well. Congress passed the Water Pollution Control Act

Water Pollution isn’t going to be stopped by regulations, scientists are going to have to come up with ways to within the environment to stop it. In order to get rid of surface water pollution, scientists have come up with ways to reduce it. Recent research from the University of Sinaloa has found a plant that is used to get rid of some of the water pollution. Typha domingensis is reducing pollution from bacteria from mammals by “ninety-eight percent” (“Common Weed”). This weed is quite tall and can be found in either shallow or deep water. In a study, the plant found nearly several types of bacteria that was causing pollution in the water (“Common Weed”). This plant is just a start to stop water pollution or at least contain it. Scientists have come up with new systems that can remove water pollutants from fields. Laura Christianson is an expert in what kind of woodchips would react with the field pollutants (“New System”). The woodchips help get rid of the nitrate in fields. They woodchips can consume the nitrate which is then removed from the water. To get rid of the phosphorus, they created a system called a p-filter (“New System”). There are two different types of filters, acid mine drainage treatment residual and steel slag (“New System). The acid mine drainage also called MDR for short, removed roughly “eighty to ninety percent of phosphorus” (“New System”). The MDR filter is by far more productive in removing phosphorus compared to the steel slag. The steel slag is

Furthermore, State and Local ordinance regulations are in place to regulate the proper use of fertilizers by any applicator. Pinellas County Florida’s ordinance for example states that not only do we need control the source of excess nutrients in our local waters, but an important first step in improving water quality is by everyone reducing their personal contribution to pollution. There are many ways this can be done, for instance companies and individuals who choose to use fertilizer in Pinellas County may not use fertilizers containing nitrogen or phosphorous from June 1st through September 30th. From October 1st through May 30th, the rules differ slightly. The Pinellas County Fertilizer Ordinance