ENVR 1301- Haley Gallagher

  Davis & Lewicki, 2003 Bryan, 2003 Environmental Framing Consortium, 2005 Values/ethics: How people frame controversial issues Legal Environment: Laws, regulations, legal procedures and court decisions.  Identity: Various ways in which people view themselves or a group to which they belong. “Who am I?” What are my values? Framing: Making sense of a set of undifferentiated events and defining them as meaningful.  Political Environment: Characteristics of the political processes and institutions in a society. Characterization Frames:  How individuals view other groups of people. “Who are they?” Intractability: The decision to study and compare a number of environmental disputes Technology: General knowledge and capability of science, engineering, and medicine.  Risk Frame: Individuals and groups come to evaluate potential risks associated with policy decisions.  Characterization frames:  Statements made by individuals about how they understood someo...

 The environmental thought has been going around for many years. It first became known towards the end of the 1900s. This time period witnessed the growth in understanding the globe and the environmental issues that were occurring. Everyone during this time period was starting to learn more and more about the environment and what dangers have been created. This began the evolution of environmental policy in the United States. "Most environmental historians who have studied U.S. policy have discerned at least three distinct periods during which new concepts and ideas, scientific understandings, technological advances, political institutions, and laws and regulations came or were brought into being in order to understand and manage human impacts on the environment" (Tomkin, 2018). These three were the American conservation movement, the rise of environmental risk management as a basis for policy, and the integration of social and economic factors to create what refer to as the ...

"Microplastics, which are plastic particles or fibers smaller than 5 millimeters in size, are one of the many environmentally-detrimental outcomes of modern society's widespread use of plastics" (Haab, Page. 9). They can be in almost any products we use on a daily basis, whether it is a cosmetic product or a normal plastic product. The presence of the small particles of microplastics have increased over the years, which is not good for our environment. Throughout this essay, I will share what is considered to be microplastic, how they got here, and why it is harmful for the environment.      As stated in the beginning of the essay, microplastics are 5 millimeters or smaller, which can be possible to inhale or ingest into our body. A few examples of microplastics that we may not know about are Polyethylene, Polypropylene, Nylon, Polymethyl methacrylate, copolymers, and even more (Plastic Soup Foundation, 2019). These are just some of the examples of microplastics. Many peo...

                                                               Air Pollution Basics Sulfur Pollutants: Sulfur pollutants occur from the activity of oil and gas production, volcanic activity, and the combination of fossil fuels. Two important gaseous pollutants are sulfur dioxide (SO2) and hydrogen sulfide (H2S). Both of these gases are toxic to the environment including plants and animals, especially if they are highly concentrated. Once they are emitted into the air, they become oxidized to other compounds and form sulfate (SO4). Since these emissions cause human-health and environmental damages, most nations have acted upon reducing the emissions. This is possible by reducing or eliminating no sulfur fuels, especially for electricity generation or installing scrubbers to remove SO2 from post-combustion before they are emitted i...

 Alternative energy is the energy that does not come from fossil fuels, which produces less greenhouse gasses. Alternative energy is not relied upon as the main energy source.  Alternative energy sources can be sunlight, wind, geothermal heat, and water. Some of these sources can be inexhaustible, such as the sun. The sun is the main source in alternative energy because almost all of these sources relate back to the sun in some way. Using these sources will help decrease the amount of greenhouse gasses in the air and decrease pollution. Also, using one of the sources, you do not have to be in an area near a power plant. "Homes, businesses, and isolated communities can use sources such as solar to produce electricity without being near a power plant or being connected to an electrical grid" (Mutiti, 2018).  Wind power is a renewable energy source that uses the movement of air to generate electricity. Wind is a great, clean source of energy, but the differences in wind pres...

  Is clean coal a myth or reality? There have been quite a few conversations involving the term "clean coal". Many questions have been developed from this statement and I have an argument about whether there is such a thing as clean coal or not. There is no such thing as clean coal, it is impossible. That term has been used out of context for years and has been very confusing to many people. Clean coal is most definitely a myth.  According to the New York Times, "Confusingly, administration officials have sometimes used "clean coal" to refer to highly efficient coal plants that do not use carbon capture but emit somewhat less carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than older coal plants"(Plumer, 2017). This term has developed a trail of many lies about coal plants. Just because some coal emits less carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, does not mean that it is completely clean. With that being said, coal is never completely clean. Coal can be washed, but there w...