Clean Water Act Of 1972

In terms of oil dependence, most of the general public believes that the world has enough oil to support us for the next hundred years; in truth we are rapidly depleting our petroleum sources due to the increasing population and demand. In fact, as was initially theorized by the Hubbert Peak Theory in 1950, Earth peaked in oil supplies in 1973 and the largest oil resources that have been discovered since then have been in Venezuela and Saudi Arabia. Here it must be

All the controversy about the lead problems in Flint, Michigan has stirred up questions across the country. Every day there are several news stories about cities across the country discussing the lead issue and how they meet the requirements of the Safe Drinking Water Act. While the average person may feel comforted by these news stories, it doesn’t mean that every home served by the water supply has lead below the EPA’s recommended action level. It’s the job of water treatment professionals to educate those served by municipal water about the regulations surrounding lead and copper and what those consumers can do to protect themselves further.

Oil production is crucial for humans. Overall, 33 out of 48 countries have now hit a peak in oil production, resulting that oil is going to hit a decline in production. This peak is in countries such as Mexico and Russia, potentially signifying the end of the Industrial revolution. However, oil itself is not running out, just the rich, thick oils, that are high quality. In the near future, the only oil that Earth will have will be thin, and not good enough to use in motor vehicles or for electricity. Additionally, cheap and easy to extract oil will be at a decline, and also oil will be in unaccessible places, or within dangerous areas. Oil production needs to stay at pace with the human demand.

In the 1970’s there was growing confusion regarding environmental policy due to certain states creating environmental protection laws which were largely ineffective. To ease confusion, fix national guidelines, and monitor and enforce them President Richard Nixon created the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The EPA functions under three federal departments: the Interior, Agriculture, and Health, Education and Welfare departments. The original role of the EPA was to administrate the Clean Air Act which was enacted to reduce the air pollution caused by vehicles and industry. The EPA has since grown to enforce at least 12 major statutes such as: ocean dumping laws, safe drinking water, insecticides, and asbestos hazards in

The freshwater that is available for use is becoming more contaminated with each use. The Clean Water Act of 1972 put in order more regulations in regards to wastewater and the dumping of it into rivers and lakes. Multiple-step filtration systems have been used since then to better remove toxins from wastes before it enters freshwater. In a personal interview with Moe Crabtree, Nature Resource Specialist for the Washington Department of Natural Resources, I learned some measures taken to keep water clean. Her common job is to setup timber sales which includes much precaution of rivers and streams. I asked her- “In what ways do you have to avoid water contamination?” she replied, “we have to divert culverts at minimum one hundred feet from

Although the growing concern about cyanobacterial blooms, as well as the intoxication by cyanotoxins worldwide, in the United States there is not any regulation for cyanobacteria or cyanotoxins levels in the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) or in the Clean Water Act (CWA) (USEPA, 2015a). Since the SDWA provides the authority for the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) to publish health advisories (HAs) for agents that do not have any national drinking water regulation. Therefore, USEPA is the agency that is responsible for the implementing and enforcing of the guidelines, standards or HAs related to cyanotoxins. Based on this, during summer 2015, the USEPA issued a 10 days HAs for two cyanotoxins:

The Clean Air Act in the 1970s enforced to clean out the pollution which started from the Air Pollution Control Act in the mid 1950's as a federal legislation, it involved funds to provide for research on how to control air pollution, soon after created public health services and required to expand their research to monitor the air pollution in the United States. The agency that is responsible for enforcing the law is EPA (Environmental Protection Agency). In the 1990's NESHAP's expanded the program to control the toxic in the air. Also, it sought the protection of the ozone and increased the enforcement authority to expand the research even further. Cleaning the water became EPA’s next goal when the air was polluted so was the water, the Clean

President Richard Nixon made the decision to create the Environmental Protection Agency in 1970 because of the ineffectiveness of environmental protection laws, The Environmental Protection Agency was to monitor and enforce laws to protect the environment. This decision to create the EPA when there was a disagreement on the hazards of pesticides. Setting exposure limits for chemicals in the early 1970’s was a struggle until the courts decided that the EPA had the authority to set the standards after a two-year battle. The agency has developed Toxic Substance Control Act, that helps protect workers by performing test on chemicals that re either manufactured here in the United States, or chemicals that are imported from other countries that industries

The Clean Water Act (CWA) founds the elementary structure for regulating releases of contaminants into the water bodies of the US and also for surface waters it regulates quality standards. The origin of the CWA was passed in 1948 and was named the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, then the Act was suggestively reorganized and prolonged in 1972. as "Clean Water Act" this became the Act 's communal name after amendments in 1972.Further down to CWA, EPA has applied other pollution control agendas such as for industry, the setting wastewater standards. We similarly have set some water quality standards for all pollutants in surface waters.

In fact, environmentalists came into the picture to push the government into doing something concrete in order to preserve the earth’s ecosystems. The government had the moral obligation to take action, and some laws were enacted to control pollution. For example, the Clean Air Act was in 1963, the Clean Water Act in 1972, and the Safe Drinking Water Act in 1974. Additionally, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency or EPA was established in 1970, with the purpose of protecting the health of human beings and the environment by enforcing regulations based on laws passed by the

Today carbon dioxide is the primary greenhouse gas emitted through human actives in the world. Carbon dioxide accounts for nearly three quarter of the greenhouse gas emission. The main source of carbon dioxide emission in the United States are electricity, transportation, and industry. Electricity has a significant amount of emission due to the fossil fuels needed to generate electricity, to power homes, businesses, and industries. The second largest cause of carbon dioxide emission is transportation. Transportation accounts for 31% total of carbon dioxide emission in the United States. Lastly industry is another large part in the emission rising. Many industry process carbon dioxide and the emission through chemical reaction that do not involve combustion. These are the leading carbon dioxide emission today in the world.

Enacted in 1972, the Clean Water Act was formulated with the goals of putting the end to the discharging of high quantities of contaminated materials into water resources, and further prevent pollution of water , and making sure that surface waters met the standards needed to support human and agricultural usage. Essentially, the Clean Water Act stipulates the fundamental structure used in the regulation of discharges of toxic pollutants into water resources of the US and ensuring conformance of quality standards for groundwater (Environmental Protection Agency). The Clean Water Act was draws based on the Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1948, which was later developed and revised in 1972 to the Clean Water Act. Under the Clean Water Act, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is authorized to implement programs to control pollution example being the establishment of standards for wastewater discharge for various industries. In addition, the CWA establishes the water quality standards applicable to all groundwater contaminants. The Clean Water Act makes it illegal to unload any contaminant material from a point source into navigable water bodies without acquiring permit from EPA. The National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit program, under the EPA, helps in controlling discharges (Environmental Protection

Iowa has been working for decades to protect and improve water quality; however, more can be done. Our suggested strategy is to direct efforts to reduce nutrients in surface water from both point and nonpoint sources in a scientific, reasonable, and cost-effective manner. Our proposal is prompted by the 1972 Federal Water Pollution Act (Clean Water Act) as well as the 2008 Gulf Hypoxia Action Plan. Both of these plan’s objectives are to restore and maintain the chemical, physical and biological integrity of the nation’s waters by preventing point and nonpoint pollution sources and seek to provide assistance to publicly owned water treatment facilities. The 2008 Gulf Hypoxia Action Plan takes these goals one step further by calling Iowa and other states along the Mississippi River to develop strategies to reduce nutrient loadings to the Gulf of Mexico. Moreover, establishing that there needs to be at least a 45% reduction in total nitrogen, phosphorus, and sediment loads in order for waters to be fishable and swimmable. Our proposal seeks to apply the guidelines in these bills to the Fourmile Creek watershed in Central Iowa in order to make the waters in ‘our backyard’ fishable and swimmable once again.

Two main causes are burning fossil fuels and driving our cars. According to a NASA earth observatory web page, “fossil fuel burning (coal, oil and gas) releases about 6 billion metric tons per year.” On the EPA web site, it is stated that most of the emissions of greenhouse gases, “about 82%, are from burning fossil fuels to generate electricity and power our cars.” As I said before, driving our cars also is a large cause. For example, Ecobridge states that “Twenty percent of U.S. carbon dioxide emissions comes from the burning of gasoline in internal-combustion engines of cars and light trucks.” So a fair amount of the emissions is from driving your car.

Regional distribution of the world 's oil resources is uneven, many international conflicts and conflicts triggered. From the point of view of oil resources, to the end of 2003 all regions of the world 's proven oil reserves distribution, proven reserves of 99.58 billion tons in the Middle East, accounting for 57.4 percent of the world 's total