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    which resulted in a myriad of genetic mutations in upstate New York from 1979-1981 prompted civilian unrest and protests nationwide. Prior to public awareness of the environmental and health hazards occurring across the United States, radioactive waste was nonchalantly dealt with as medical conditions were unknown to public knowledge. In 1979, after residents of Love Canal unified and discussed the medical conditions that plagued their children and newborns, outcry began to spring as residents demanded

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    Racism needs to be brought up in conversations within our communities as well as our local governments, so they will not forget their remains a problem. Environmental Racism can be described as, the intentional or unintentional placement of hazardous waste sites, landfills, or industries that are polluting communities mainly those inhabited by African-Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans, Pacific Islanders and Asians, as well as the working poor. In the broadest sense, Environmental Racism, is

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    the researcher and the community members whom were the sole source of information for the report. Discussion Superfund sites are the federal government’s program aimed at making a cleanup of all the nation’s waste sites. These reasons are because of increased accumulation of hazardous wastes in the sites, where they are being dumped. Being the aim of the federal government to create a sustainable environment for not only the current

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    Changing Behavior: Insights and Applications Annette Frahm, project manager Dave Galvin Gail Gensler Gail Savina Anne Moser December 1995 Revised June 2001 Local Hazardous Waste Management Program in King County King County Water Pollution Control Division 130 Nickerson St., Suite 100 Seattle, Washington 98109 (206) 263-3050; haz.waste@metrokc.gov Prog-3(12/95)rev.6/01 Introduction Have you ever tried to get a smoker to stop? A kid to start wearing a bike helmet? An aerosol user

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    and since World War II the United States has produced millions of tons of toxic wastes during the manufacturing and processing of products. These hazards were often left abandoned and no one really paid attention to their effect on our environment. In the 1980s Congress established a Superfund Program. It was left for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to administer the superfund program, to find these hazardous sites, investigate and determine the worst ones, and then clean up those sites

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    there will be no water left for us. So the Government of Minnesota (CWD) should pass a law so the water in Minnesota is filtered better and so that it will be cleaner so everyone is able to drink it. There are three ways to do this and they are Hazardous waste treatment, Planting vegetation along bodies of water, to filter sediment and Filtering Bacteria so if they are ingested by humans it will not kill them. The main problem in Minnesota is that even access to clean water can be tough. The reason

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    Love Canal is one of the most iconic and appalling environmental tragedies in American history. Dreamed up by a visionary, William T. Love built Love Canal to create a dream community on the fringe of Niagara Falls where all could see it as a dream community. Love built the Canal because he thought that by digging a short canal between two rivers that he could generate electricity to power homes and business in the community surrounding the canal. With the invention of AC power and a depression,

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    financial straits), and my pending sale of Florida property potentially had toxic waste buried beneath the surface. I found this to be the least challenging question posed thus far in terms of my own ethical beliefs. In this instance I would proceed with the sale without disclosing the information regarding what I had heard about the toxic waste. Clearly Florida law states that you do not have to disclose that there is a hazardous substance on commercial property as long as there is not a fraudulent statement

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    Assignment 2: Ethics and Corporate Responsibility in the Workplace and the World Law, Ethics & Corporate Governance 11/2013 Ethics and Corporate Responsibility in the Work Place and the World discusses one of the world’s most successful pharmaceutical companies that enjoys a reputation as a caring, ethical and well-run company which produces high-quality products that saves millions of lives and enhances the quality of life for millions of others. In this hypothetical scenario the following

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    Question 1 1 out of 1.25 points Partial Credit Expand the following by showing the powers of 10 for each place value. 456 = 4 x 10[a] + 5 x 10[b] + 6 x 10[c] 87.045 = [d] x 101 + [e] x 100 + [f] x 10-1 + [g] x 10[h] + 5 x 10[i] 700 = [j] x 102 + 0 x 101 + 0 x 100 Specified Answer for: a 2 Specified Answer for: b 1 Specified Answer for: c 0 Specified Answer for: d 8 Specified Answer for: e 7 Specified Answer for: f 0 Specified Answer for: g 4 Specified

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